The complete Program & Registration Brochure for the 2003 Australian Map
Circle Conference (Sydney, 2-5 February 2003) is now available on the AMC
website:
http://australianmapcircle.org.au/amc2003/
Also, the program (only) is reproduced below for your convenience.
John Cain
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Australian Map Circle 2003
Conference Program
Sunday 2 February 2003
1.00pm Technical Tour (Optional)
Guided bus trip to Ku ring-gai Chase National Park, with Dr Graeme Aplin,
Macquarie University.
5.00pm Early Registration and BBQ at Dunmore Lang College
Monday 3 February 2003
8.30am Registration
9.00am Welcome to Conference by AMC President
9.10 - 10.30am Time Map Project Mapping historical data in the new
millennium Keynote Address by Andrew Wilson.
10.30 - 11.00am Morning Tea
11.00 - 11.30am Australian National Placenames Survey - David Blair.
11.30 - 12.00 noon Looking for Treasure Island- Harry Steward.
12.00 noon - 12.30pm The Subtlest Kind of Cartography: Mapping Queensland's
Electoral Boundaries, 1860-1991 Duncan Waterson.
12.30 - 2.00pm Lunch, MU Staff Club
2.00 - 2.30pm Mapping a new colony: the geographical construction of
Queensland, 1860-1880- Peter Griggs.
2.30 - 3.00pm Teaching the terrain: explaining the battlefields to the
public at the Australian War Memorial Diane Rutherford.
3.00pm - 3.30pm Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 4.00pm Health and disease mapping in Australia: an historical
overview - Kevin McCracken.
4.00 - 4.30pm History of map collecting- Robert Clancy.
5.00pm Official Opening of 2003 Australian Map Circle Conference at the
Macquarie University Art Gallery, by the VC, Prof. Di Yerbury followed by
drink/refreshments and viewing of map exhibition, 'Icons of Australian
Cartography: Australian Maps 1900-1950'.
Tuesday 4 February 2003
9.00am Depart for city centre.
9.30 - 11.00am Visit to State Library of NSW. Cheryl Evans will show
participants a selection of maps from the Mitchell Library and Dixson
Library collections, followed by a visit to the Heritage Gallery (opening
January 2003) to see a selection of significant items from the State
Library's collection of maps, photographs, realia and rare books, including
the Tasman [Bonaparte] and the Gijsbertsz maps.
11.30am - 1.00pm Visit to State Records. Presentation by Fabian Loschiavo
highlighting key maps and plans from the State Records extensive
collection. It will include examples of records such as surveyors' field
books, sketchbooks, correspondence and parish maps.
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm - 4.30pm Guided tour of The Rocks by Graeme Aplin, outlining the
area's historical development from the earliest days of the colony to the
present day era of commodification, and how these changes have been
reflected in maps.
6.30pm - 7.00pm Pre-Conference Drinks at Stamford Grand, cnr Epping/Herring
Road, North Ryde.
7.00pm Annual Conference Dinner at Stamford Grand, cnr Epping/Herring Road
Wednesday 5 February
9.00 - 9.30am Stand and deliver! balance map making, knowledge management
and web delivery - Peter Lewis.
9.30 - 10.00am GIS for rural fire service - Kelvin Wise.
10.00 - 10.30am Mapping our forests using cutting edge technology in
sustainable forest management - Wayne Mackey.
10.30 - 11.00am Morning Tea
11.00 - 11.30am Topographic mapping skills: the classroom challenge- Grant
Kleeman.
11.30 - 12 noon Re-Survey Part of New South Wales-Queensland Border along
the 29th Parallel- Les Gardner.
12 noon - 12.30pm Local Environmental Plans (LEPs) and their maps - Graeme
Aplin.
12.30 - 2.00pm Lunch, MU Staff Club
2.00 - 2.30pm 50 years in the map trade Jim Bowden
2.30 - 3.00pm Spatial maintenance System and its impact on mapping at Land
and Property Information - Ian Paxton.
3.00 - 3.30pm Geosciences Australia's mapping program and products - Daniel
Jaksa.
3.30 - 4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.00 - 5.00pm AMC Annual General Meeting
5.00pm Official Closing of Conference
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