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I'd be grateful if you could circulate details of this years's Society of
Cartographers Summer School as widely as possible.
Details are appended below
Graham
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The Society of Cartographers 31st Annual Summer School
University of Sheffield, UK, 11 - 14 September 1995
OUTLINE PROGRAMME
Sunday 10th September
Evening: Barbecue
Evening: Committee Meeting
Monday 11th September
Welcome and Introduction
Session 1 Mapping the changes - the regeneration of Sheffield
The History of Sheffield
Arthur Hunt, formerly Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
Meadowhall and its effect on Sheffield city centre
Gwyn Rowley, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
GIS in Local Authorities
Nigel Mason, Chesterfield Borough Council
Session 2 Historical Cartography
The Hydrographic Office - Archives and 200 years of Admiralty Charts
Ken Atherton, Curator, The Hydrographic Office, Taunton
Maps: Conservation and Storage
Fiona Butterfield, Freelance Paper Conservator
Cartography at the Public Record Office - maps for family and local
historians
William Foot, Public Record Office/University of Sussex
Session 3 Cartographic Miscellany
Dyscover - special maps for special people
Rose Birley and Nick Tasker, Dyscover
Footprints in the sand
David Barbour, Stirling Surveys
3D city centre mapping
James Brown, James Brown Designs
Session 4 Members session
An opportunity to discuss some of the issues and developments raised at
this year's Summer School. Amongst possible topics to be addressed are: The
future of the map library; Computer drawing packages used for cartography
and undergraduate teaching; Society developments: The Society WWW site &
CARTO-SoC, the Society Email List; Using the Internet. Members are free to
raise other issues they wish to discuss
Evening: Society AGM (Junior Common Room)
Tuesday 12th September
Cartographic visits
Visit 1 Chatsworth House
A chance to view the Duke of Devonshire's collection of estate maps,
built up over 200 years, together with a chance to views the House
and Gardens. This collection is not normally accessible to the public.
Visit 2 am Modern printing techniques
A site visit to J W Northend - one of the regions leading print
companies, and a chance to view Macintosh digital pre-press work
Visit 2 pm Paper Mill/Urban retailing
Alternative visits to either Jamont UK's Oughtibridge paper mill,
or a behind-the-scenes look at Meadowhall Shopping & Leisure -
the UK's leading shopping mall
Visit 3 The Peak District
A walking geomorphological excursion into the Peak District
(between 8 and 10 miles)
Evening: Quiz
Wednesday 13th September
Session 5 GIS and Cartography in teaching
Interactive maps on the Internet
John Castleford, CTI Centre for Geography, Geology Planning
& Meteorology, University of Leicester
Choosing the tools for the task
Ron Beard, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Luton
Plotting the second GIS revolution -
GIS into the mainstream curriculum
Ifan Shepherd, School of Geography & Environmental Management,
Middlesex University
Session 6 Digital atlas production
Map source to floppy disc! What is inbetween ?
Stuart Miller, George Philip
The Times Concise Atlas of the World from ARC/Info to Apple Macintosh
Alex Elder, Bartholomew
The virtually real landscape
Simon Lewis, Dorling Kindersley
What next ?
David Stephens, Lovell Johns
Session 7 Where is this Cyberspace place anyway ?
A workshop session enabling users to gain experience of CD-ROMs
and the Internet - Email (Pegasus Mail & Eudora); FTP;
World Wide Web (WWW); ListServs;
Football - another informal game of football where age, skill and numbers
per side are irrelevant. Training shoes must be worn.
Goodwin Synthetic Turf Pitches
Evening: Reception
Evening: Society Annual Dinner
Evening: Ceilidh
Thursday 14th September
Session 8 Mapping the environment
The need for maps of the environment
Professor David Kay, The Environment Centre, University of Leeds
Mapping Cheshire ponds
John Boothby, The Ponds Research Unit, Liverpool John Moores University
The use of remote sensing techniques for mapping land use in Crete
Gabriel Amable, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Session 9 The digital world
Alternative Mapping Skills for Cartographers
William Cartwright, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Digital compiling - the transition for technical pen owners
Nick Tasker, The Hydrographic Office
COSTINGS
REGISTRATION FEE
(payable by all participants) UKP25
TOTAL PACKAGE
(includes Accommodation, Cartographic visits and Annual Dinner
& Ceilidh; excludes registration fee)
Sunday barbecue to Thursday lunch UKP155
Sunday barbecue to Thursday lunch with members discount* UKP145
Monday morning to Thursday lunch UKP140
Monday morning to Thursday lunch with members discount* UKP135
* Only available to full members of the Society booking one of the above
Total Packages
DAILY ATTENDANCE AND ACCOMMODATION RATES
(excludes registration fee; single room only)
Barbecue, B & B Sunday night UKP32.50
Monday sessions (including lunch and tea & coffee) UKP10.00
Dinner, B & B Monday night UKP32.50
Tuesday sessions (Cartographic visit including lunch) UKP15.00
Dinner, B & B Tuesday night UKP32.50
Wednesday sessions (including lunch and tea & coffee) UKP10.00
Annual Dinner and Ceilidh (non-residents) UKP27.50
Annual Dinner, Ceilidh, B & B Wednesday night UKP47.50
Thursday sessions (including lunch and tea & coffee) UKP10.00
All members of the Society of Cartographers will be sent full details
and a booking form.
If you would like more details, further information is available:
on our WWW site: (http://www.shef.ac.uk/~sc-web/sheffield.html)
by Email: ([log in to unmask])
by post: (Graham Allsopp, Department of Geography,
University of Sheffield, Winter Street, SHEFFIELD, S10 2TN
United Kingdom)
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