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The Newsletter of the British Cartographic Society

Volume 16, 1st Issue, Spring 2010

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Welcome to the Spring editionof Maplines, filled to the brimwith maps and geographical

articles and titbits for your delight. So much so, in fact, that there is hardly room to tell you about thetreats we have.

I’m sure you’ve all mused about thegrowth of the Internet. Whether youhate it or love it, the Internet is a professional fact of life with which weall need to deal. Our main article

leads us through the wide-rangingimpact of Web 2.O technology.

For a bit of fun why not give our Quiz,sponsored by Martin through MLDesign, a go! I consider myself a bit ofa London building expert but I’m having a bit of trouble...see if you cando better!

And finally to ensure you get out andabout a bit this Spring, we feature twofabulous exhibitions at the British

Library and Cambridge University(see below and p14).

If you have any views on cartographyor snippets for Omnium, please contact us, we’d love to hear from you.

Lyndaon behalf of

Lynda, Adam, Martin and MarkMaplines Editors

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art100 greatest maps in the world to goon display in the British Library’smajor Summer exhibition.

Maps can be works of art, propagandaand indoctrination. This is a rarechance to see an unrivalled collectionof cartographic masterpieces thatwere intended for display side-by-sidewith the World’s greatest paintingsand sculptures. Over 80 of the mostimpressive wall-maps ever created dating from 200AD to the present day, most of which have never beenseen before.

Recreating the settings in which theywould have originally been seen - fromthe palace to the schoolroom, themaps express an enormous variety ofdiffering world views, using size andbeauty to convey messages of statusand power.

Highlights include: � Fra Mauro World Map c.1450 byWilliam Frazer, 1804 – a hand-drawncopy of the first great modern World map.

� World Map by Pierre Desceliers,1550 – a compendious World map

made for the King of France, celebrating the discoveries of JacquesCartier in Canada, and showing themyths, animals and natural history intheir correct place in the world.

� Confiance – Ses Amputations SePoursuivent, 1944 - a German propaganda poster portrayingChurchill as an octopus, drawing onearlier comic maps

The exhibition coincides with two BBCFour series about maps, Mapping theWorld and The Art of Maps to bebroadcast this Spring.

See Calendar p19 for further information

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President

Notes from our President

Change is inevitable; we experience it permeating every aspect of our workinglives while the pace of it appears to be

ever increasing. The drivers for change are allaround us and include technology, customerexpectation, efficiency gains, and globalisationamongst many other pressures on us to simplydo better.

It was many of these pressures that drove usto initiate the recent review of the Society fromwhich the recommendation to reduce the sizeof Council and restructure its responsibilitiesemanated. The November EGM voted in favourof these recommendations and following asnow driven cancellation in the New Year, therestructured Council met for the first time inlate January. I believe that this change hasgiven us a more manageable, flexible and sustainable governance group that can support the Society, not only in its aim to promote better mapping, but to also worktowards understanding what that really means to the new technologies and its usercommunities in these fast developing and everchanging geospatial industries.

The wider Society is also changing. From a collection of principally map producers we aredeveloping into a much wider community ofmap makers and map users who share a common theme; the need to effectively andefficiently communicate information or ideasthrough geospatial data. Within that commontheme there are a myriad of specific intereststhat can sometimes be grouped to study a subject or research and develop solutions. TheSociety uses Special Interest Groups (SIGs) forjust that purpose; we have some ongoing successful examples. However, there is a tendency to think that a SIG needs to be along-term commitment or have a long-termaim. Instead, they could be used in a muchmore dynamic way, bringing interested partiestogether to undertake a short project; this isanother change that Council would really liketo encourage. If you have an idea for such aSIG (or indeed a long term SIG!) speak to aCouncil member; we can help in establishing the group and supporting ittowards a successful outcome.

Potentially, the most significant change impacting on the geospatial industry for someconsiderable time, could follow the

Government’s launch of a public consultationon making available certain Ordnance Surveydatasets for free and without restriction on re-use. The proposals, set in the context of thebroad long-term strategic options for OrdnanceSurvey, are primarily aimed at underpinningthe Making Public Data Public initiative whichwill result in greater access to governmentdata that is hoped will lead to improved decision-making and create innovation.Whatever the outcome, it will affect many ofour members to some degree. By the time youread this the consultation period will haveclosed. I hope that as many of you as possiblecommented on the proposals that could re-define the geographic industry landscape.

The UKGeoForum 2010 Lecture, ‘The Future ofMapping’ by Vanessa Lawrence CB, DirectorGeneral and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey,was hosted by the RICS in January (see page16). I understand that people were turnedaway at reception as the lecture hall hadexceeded capacity. I know Vanessa is alwaysworth listening to but I’m sure that the justdescribed consultation had no small part inattracting such large numbers on a wetThursday evening in London. I guess manywere hoping to hear some inside informationon any possible outcomes. If so, they wouldhave been disappointed; referring to the consultation Vanessa could only strongly recommend that everyone in the hall shouldconsider carefully and comment on the far-reaching proposals.

As I move closer to what could be my retirement year in Ordnance Survey, I tend tothink, not only about the changes around menow, but about the change I’ve seen over thelast 40 years. The curve of technologicalchange has been algorithmic; I can’t comprehend what our industry will look like inanother 10 years let alone 40. Hmmm, I think I have a germ of an idea for the President’saddress at this year’s Symposium.

On that note I hope to see as many of you aspossible in Nottingham over 9 – 11 June but,as ever, feel free to contact me by email.

Bob LilleyBCS President

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Web 2.0 user/producer and changes to

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With the advancement of Web 2.0technology computers are nowbeing used differently,

illustrating a shift from the conventionalmap publishing model. Crawford (2006)suggests that as computing powerbecomes more affordable and softwarebecomes more powerful, the creativepotential of what can be done at home –at relatively low cost – has soared. Suchmass amateurisation means a narrowingof the difference between professionaland amateur production methods.

Amateur map producers now havegreater access to geographical information and base maps can besourced from conventional providers,such as the Ordnance Survey’sOpenspace, which provides free data fornon-commercial experimentation andfrom non-conventional sources, such asNokia Maps or OpenStreetmap, theorganisation providing free data andmaps that are produced by individualswho collaborate to provide a free geospatial resource.

However, the use of Web2.0 as a meansfor providing geographical informationpresents other problems for cartography.

Who owns geospatial data?There has been a movement of datarepositories from just governmentresources to private industry with the likes of Google and MicroSoft purchasingmassive amounts of geospatial information and often providing it forfree. The model of data collection, storage and distribution has changed.But, will this continue to be the case?Will future access of data incur a fee?

Data integrityData from public sector repositories isusually properly collected, maintainedand updated by responsible authorities.For example the Ordnance Survey states,‘we make an average of 5,000 changesevery working day to our large-scale mapdata of Great Britain’. These governmentor quasi-government sources of information have been trusted as custodians of geographical information and the actual payment for

this service comes from the public purse,from user payments and royalties. Buthow is the quality/integrity of dataassured by commercial or collaborative data provision resources?

The OpenStreetMap organisation incorporates a number of quality checksin its data collection to delivery system. It actively encourages users to check thequality of their data and to makechanges if necessary (CloudMade,2009). A quality statement from Google.Related to their maps could not be foundat the time of writing, however, the title ofa presentation by Google’s Ed Parsons atthe 6th International Symposium onSpatial Data Quality in July 2009, ‘WhenGood Enough, is Good Enough: Dataquality requirements of the geoweb’, indicates that Google are consciousabout data quality issues and its maps.

However, one Google user thinks differently.

‘I’ve been using Google Maps for yearsand I’ve noticed a significant decreasein quality in the past several months. I live in New York, not exactly anobscure place, and the road I live on isnot even on the map anymore! It certainly was last year. Obviously nothing is perfect, and I assume map-ping is hard, but why is Google Maps,overall, worse than it was last year? I think the usability of the interface hasgone up, and there are some nice newfeatures, but what’s the point, if theactual maps and routes aren’t asgood?’ (Google Maps Help supportforum, posted 23 January 2009).

This is an area of major concern andmuch debate. If users do not trust mapsand geographical data delivered via theWeb per se, then they may not trust datadelivered from any source, including reputable and traditional informationproviders.

Product MaintenanceLinked closely to the previous topic is theissue of data maintenance. We assumethat traditional data custodians maintaintheir data to acceptable standards. But,what of the ‘new players’? This issue also

relates to user confidence in the datasupplied or the map generated from non-traditional data repositories.

Data protectionData ‘Scraping’ is the process whereby Web page source code is interrogatedautomatically and data intended to generate screen or printer output isextracted and a new data file created,thereby bypassing payment or authorisation for the data from theowner.

This is of great concern to organisationsand individuals who generate Web mapsand do not wish to have their datacopied in this way. Added to this problemis that of attribution. If data can bescraped and another mapping productgenerated from this data, it would bepossible for another product to be generated and published with no reference whatsoever to the original datasource or provider.

Social mapping movementsThere are a number of social and collaborative organisations that maketheir data and maps available for free.Through a network of Web-connectedamateurs and professionals data is collected, placed in repositories and published. These organisations caneither be viewed to be competing or collaborating with traditional suppliers of geographical information.

User PrivacyWith the massive growth of informationthat is geotagged and the ability to transmit and receive maps and data viamobile devices, there is now a trade-offfor providers and users between information accessibility and privacy.Such devices are nearly always on theuser and can be continually tracked by aservice provider. This issue is perhapsone of the sleeping problems of mobilegeographical information services thatmight cause problems in the future andlimit the success of maps delivered viathis medium.

Another privacy problem has arisen withdata capture for Google StreetView©.

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When collecting street imagery people as well as inanimate objects are alsophotographed. Contributors to the Blogsite Boing Boing were asked if they wouldbe concerned if the CIA were also collecting such information in publicplaces. In some instances individualshave contacted Google to request thattheir image or property be removed fromthe site. In response, GoogleStreetView© has blurred the faces captured in its imagery, as well as otheridentifying items.

One interesting sideline is that somestreet sineage, like Kentucky FriedChicken’s advertising that includes animage of Col. Sanders (the founder of thecompany), has had the facial featureblurred as well. Google Street View© saidthat this was done because he is ‘a realperson’ (The Telegraph, 2009).

Cartographic involvementThere are now new players in geospatialdata provision whose primary focus isnot mapping or cartography. For example, TeleAtlas was purchased byTomTom and Navteq was acquired byNokia. Enhancing consumer electronicswith geographical information is a powerful advertising and merchandisingtool and as these companies do not havecartography as their main focus thereexists the need for the cartographic community to seek ways of collaborating.

Quality AssuranceThe quality of published maps on theWeb was adjudged by speed of delivery,circulation figures and screen resolution.Users were still seen as consumers andnot collaborators in geographical knowledge acquisition. The use of Web2.0 as a means for providing geographical information presents different problems for assuring qualitysuch as those surrounding ‘self-constructed’ Web 2.0 products. Forconventional cartographic products theseassurances are provided by cartographybut new methods would need to bedeveloped for assuring quality andinforming users of the sources of conglomerate products.

CrowdsourcingThe concept of making data freely available for problem-solving or by ‘harvesting’ information from Web usershas been termed ‘crowdsourcing’. In anarticle in Wired magazine Howe (2006)outlined the opportunities the Web hasgiven to companies regarding their methods of sourcing contract work.Companies can now outsource work enmasse and workers can be physicallylocated anywhere, as long as they areconnected to the Internet.

This type of methodology for problem-solving has been called ‘The wisdom of the crowds’ by JamesSurowiecki (2004). He says: ‘Ask a crowd,rather than a pair, and the average isquite close to the truth’.

This approach was formalised somewhatin 2001 when the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly funded InnoCentive thatinvites researchers from outside the company to address the company’sresearch. Later, companies like Boeing,DuPont, and Procter & Gamble also usedInnoCentive to put their research questions to ‘the crowd’.

A similar application is Amazon’s Web-accessed Mechanical Turk thatinvites individuals to make interpretations of imagery. Here these‘HITs’ (human intelligence tasks) requirelittle time and input to complete. The feefor completing these tasks is also modest.

In terms of mapping and the provision ofdata in a different manner, Google’s EdParsons had this to say:

‘we should not forget that they are simple and cheap approaches to providing greater levels of informationto the citizen by allowing the citizen tocarry out the analysis themselves...Foranyone delivering the citizen servicesof the future here is an important lesson - it is NOT your data, it is the citizens’ and they must feel true ownership of it.’ (Parsons, quoted in The Guardian, 2007).

A mapping application developed atUniversity College London’s Centre forAdvanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) undertook a project that used crowdsourcing to map Anti-SocialBehaviour in East Anglia, UK (Crooks etal., 2009). They wanted to map thingslike ‘peoples perceptions on: fear ofhousehold burglary, quality of localschools, who would you vote for?’ (CASA,2009) They developed an applicationcalled MapTube, which combined theidea of YouTube and their softwareGMap Creator to produce thematicmaps. A pilot study was undertaken togenerate a ‘mood map’ of the creditcrunch for the United Kingdom. This wasdone with the UK’s BBC Radio 4 iPMshow (Hudson-Smith et al., forthcoming).

In ConclusionWeb 2.0 offers the potential for providing geographical information in acollaborative, shared manner. Alreadythe impact of maps via Web 2.0 hasbeen felt by the ever-growing number ofmaps being published as collaborativeproducts via mash-ups.

For the cartographic community this presents both opportunities and issuesthat need to addressed. The opportunities include the ability to assimilate the amateur cartographer inthe map production equation, a moreeffective means of sharing resourcesand an increased availability of geographical information. But, the issuesoutlined in this article need to beaddressed if the potential of Web 2.0 isto be responsibly exploited. It is hopedthat they might be further explored.

The above text is based on:Cartwright, W., 2009, ‘Moving frommap and geospatial information provision with the Web to collaborativepublishing using Web 2.0’, proceedingsof Geographentag 2009 – GermanGeography Society Conference, Vienna,Austria, September 2009.

William CartwrightRMIT University

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A UK delegate’s viewSantiago Chile, November 2009

Santiago was a bit of a revelationto me. I had visited SouthAmerica before, most recently a

couple of visits to La Paz in Bolivia.Santiago has quite a different feel –much more that of a modern cosmopolitan Mediterranean city, atleast in the downtown area and thearea of the city where the conferencewas hosted. Lots of high rise officesand modern apartment blocks. Peopleon the streets were generally welldressed, with no army of little oldwomen on street corners all sellingthe same selection of cigarettelighters, tissues and chewing gum! Avery efficient metro system made getting around the city easy, althoughpublic transport information couldhave been more readily available; lotsof buses and bus stops, but no maps,not even simple route diagrams ortimetables, despite large display casesat many stops (a bit of a hobby horseof mine!).

The conference facilities in the MilitarySchool were good, if a little less conveniently organised than a dedicated conference centre. Thegrounds and the overall ambiencewere impressive and certainly on firstapproaching the venue the mainfacade, an extremely large Chileanflag and the military presence made itall very imposing. The courtyard in thecentre of the complex was an ideallocation for the reception on the firstevening. There were the usual issuesof small audiences in large halls andlarge audiences in small rooms – aconference organiser’s nightmare. It is difficult to see how this could beeasily resolved without elastic roomsor enforced pre-booking, but it wasonly occasionally an issue. The sessions were organised with militaryprecision, timings generally beingstrictly adhered to (although notalways). This certainly facilitates moving from one session to another topick up potentially interesting talks,but the layout of the school couldmake this difficult to achieve. On thefirst day some of the lecture room

attendants were a bit over zealousand would not let people into theroom once the session started. AlexKent would have had a considerablylarger audience for his talk in the firstof the parallel sessions – sorry Alex Iwas only 30 seconds late – but alongwith about 20 others, including theChilean Vice-president of the ICA, Iwas not allowed in! Things were a bitmore relaxed later in the week.Although I only once took advantageof it, it was good to see translationavailable in all the lecture rooms.

Compared to recent ICCs, I wasunaware of speaker no-shows beingthe issue they have been. This is largely down to the efficiency of theorganisers ensuring that speakerswere indeed registered. This conference also saw the introductionof fully refereed papers for the firsttime, if the author so desired. I wasinformed that the number submittedin this category greatly exceededexpectations and caused some issuesprior to the conference. Perhaps this,together with the location and cost,reduced the number of speculativepapers submitted and only those withserious intentions went through thevetting procedures. It was not clearfrom the programme which were refereed papers, but the fact that thetext was refereed or not does not necessary influence the quality ofeither the content or the presentation,so it was probably not a bad thing. The proceedings did convey this information, but they were not the easiest to navigate; more thoughtneeds to be given to this in future.

Of some concern must be the organisation of Commission meetings.In theory, these should be the heart ofthe ICA and its ongoing activities. If myexperience and some of those I spoketo is anything to go by, quite a few ofthese meetings were not well attended. As ever there is the conflictof multiple activities at the same time,but Commission meetings seemed tolose out. There were exceptions as Iknow that the Commission on Use andUser Issues was very well attended

with the room at full capacity. It stillremains that there are delegates whoare unsure what the purpose of commission meetings is, if they areallowed to attend commission meetings, or if they are closed events.

Two sessions were organised forNational Delegates (that’s me for theUK). In the first the ICA Executive presented their vision of how the ICAshould develop in the short to mediumterm and in the second the NationalDelegates got the opportunity to provide feedback both on this visionand the organisation of the conference. From a UK perspective,the view is that the Executive is heading in the right direction and trying to achieve appropriate improvements in the organisation andits procedures. National delegateswere asked to provide further feedback after the conference, so Ihope this has been done and will stimulate lively debate at the next ICAexecutive meeting.

The venue for the international mapexhibition was a very long corridor,which gave an immediate impressionof the extent of the exhibition, but wasnot ideal for browsing or discussingwhat was on show. Its location didmean that you passed it many times,so you did not feel a need to rusharound and try to absorb everything inone visit. Atlases were displayed in anadjacent passageway with attendantsecurity guards, which reduced the pilfering that quickly denuded previousexhibitions of prize exhibits. There areissues about the most appropriateway of dealing with electronic submissions to the exhibition.

Despite the distance and expense ofgetting to Chile, the UK was well represented, with my headcount being16, most of whom were presentingpapers. The lack of a delegates listmakes it hard to confirm this. VanessaLawrence was one of the keynotespeakers. She suffered from havingher session the morning after GordonBrown’s Twitter announcement thatOS data would be free in future.

Vanessa clearly burnt some midnightoil to incorporate this into her presentation and the whole issue created a buzz about the place. Whilethe initial impact will be on the UK,there could be implications acrossEurope if other members ofEurogeographics adopt similar policies.

There were things that could havebeen done better but these most definitely fell into the ‘minor issue’ category. Our Chilean hosts are to becongratulated on a very well organisedand enjoyable event. As ever it wasgreat to spend quality time with likeminded people, renewing previousacquaintances and making lots of newones. Role on Paris 2011 …

Having travelled so far, it was good tohave a day after the conference to seea (very) little bit more of Chile. Most ofthe Brits did at some point make thejourney to Valpariso on the Pacificcoast, about an hour from Santiago.The route passed through extensivevineyards and other areas of whatlooked to be prime agricultural land.Valpariso had quite a different feel toSantiago and was much more what Iexpected of South America. It has arelatively narrow strip of flat landaround the harbour, but most of thecity is built on some very steep hills,with an essential element of the visitbeing a trip on one of the funiculars,which certainly saved the legs.

As I finish writing this, we have justhad news of a major earthquake inChile. The areas I visited were not significantly affected directly, but thereis no doubt there will be an impact onthe whole country. The Chileans struckme as being an organised andresourceful nation and the size andnatural wealth in terms of agricultureand minerals will perhaps make it easier for them to recover than someother parts of the World. I regret nothaving the opportunity to explore moreof the country, but once things returnto normal I would certain entertain another visit.

David ForrestUKCC


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Village Hotel and ConferenceCentre, near Nottingham, 9th to Friday 11th June, 2010

This year’s inspiring agenda hassomething for everyone. There is a broad spectrum of

presentations from the cartographicindustry combined with an interestingmix of workshops looking at the latesttechnologies and geographical data, ina full and challenging timetable.

Talking with Maps begins with a majornew departure for the BCS. We will be running a schools’ session concentrating on the role of cartography within the curriculum tosupport environmental challenges.This session, sponsored by ESRI UK,will include practical exercises focusedon disaster response mapping.Invitations have been offered to localschools in the Nottinghamshire,Derbyshire and Leicestershire area.

Wednesday afternoon will be devotedto Special Interest Group Sessions,with the GIS and Design Group alreadyconfirmed. The Exhibition will openwith a Reception in the evening. Theevening continues with our traditionalQuiz offering the delegates the opportunity to showcase their cartographic, geographical and

general knowledge.

The Symposium begins on Thursdaymorning with Thematic Mapping. Thissession will discuss various ways ofrepresenting information on mapsincluding topics as diverse as the remnants of war to winter sports. Thefollowing icebreaker session will giveeveryone the opportunity to networkand display their creative side. Thefirst workshop session will offer a widechoice of topics to cater for everyonefrom those very new to cartography tothe experienced practitioner. Theworkshops follow a range of formatsfrom practical exercises led byOrdnance Survey and XYZ Mapping to a lively debate on some of the frequently asked questions on mapdesign.

The afternoon session, CartographicRepresentation, encompasses the topics of accuracy, precision, generalisation and interpretation.Local speakers from NottinghamUniversity and the British GeologicalSurvey will be involved in this session.The evening will see our traditionalGala Dinner and BCS Awards ceremony. The standard of entries forthe awards has been consistently highover the last few years and we lookforward to seeing who will carry off

the coveted BCS Award, from amongthe various categories. This will be followed by a Ceilidh giving everyonethe opportunity to show why theyshould be a candidate for StrictlyCome Dancing as a John Sergeant ora Mark Ramprakash.

Friday opens with our third session Maps in the Media. With presentations covering newspapers,television and the Internet, we willexplore how maps are used to illustrate news items both accuratelyand not so reliably. A second workshop session follows, where you can choose to advance your cartographic skills or see the latesttechnological advances in cartographic software.

The final session builds on a themefrom the AGI Conference in 2009,Visualisation of Place. We have anexcellent range of speakers from boththe academic and commercial worldsto give us a broad perspective on theissues. The afternoon closes withanother new addition to the programme, a cartographic surgeryled by Mary Spence, building on thesuccess of the Design Special InterestGroup workshop last year. It includesan invitation for practitioners to bringalong projects they are working on to


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Attenborough Nature ReserveFor those of you who are attending theAnnual Symposium in Nottingham thisyear, I would like to recommend anattraction situated close by. Withineasy walking distance (less than 1mile) from the Symposium hotel is theAttenborough Nature Reserve.Consisting of over 140 hectares ofreclaimed gravel pits along the floodplain of the River Trent, the sitebecame a nature reserve in 1966 andwent on to become a Site of SpecialScientific Interest in 1982, due to thevaried type of water birds that visiteach year.

A walk around the main lake wouldtake about 35-50 minutes and aroundthe whole reserve would take well over

an hour and a half as it is a big place.There are fairly flat and wide gravelpaths to all parts of the reserve.

I would thoroughly recommend a visit even if it is just to walk off the tensions of the day or perhaps anover-indulgence at dinner. It is a placeI have visited many times and on each occasion I have welcomed thepeacefulness and tranquility of its surroundings. There is also a state ofthe art eco-friendly Visitors Centre thatis surrounded by water; it has a smallcafe where drinks and snacks can bepurchased. Entry to the reserve is free and access is daily from 7am to dusk.

Roger HoreBCS Administrator

The BCS Symposium will be held atShrigley Hall Hotel, Golf & CountryClub from 8th to 11th June. Thehotel is situated 15 miles south ofManchester on the edge of the PeakDistrict. The Symposium accommodation in the Tilden Suite isa former church offering unique surroundings. For those of you who

like to get an idea of what Shrigleyhas to offer, their website can befound at www.barcelohotels.co.uk/hotels/northern-england/barcelo-shrigley-hall-hotel-cheshire/.The fact that there is a golf courseon site may give us the opportunityto run the inaugural BCS OpenChampionship!

We welcome suggestions for sessions and workshops, so if thereare any topics that you would particularly like to see incorporatedfor 2011, please get in touch withany member of the ProgrammeCommittee via the BCS website.


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get a positive critique and perhapssome suggestions on making themeven better.

Football fans will have the opportunityto catch the opening games of theFIFA World Cup in South Africa in fullwide screen glory.

For those staying on, we offer theopportunity on Saturday morning tovisit the immersive 3D VisualisationFacility at the British Geological

Survey’s Keyworth HQ. This is one of the UK’s finest geoscience visualisation resources, heavily usedby BGS scientists, and is invaluable inhelping to communicate BGS researchto other geoscientists as well as commercial clients.

Talking with Maps offers a wide rangeof topics that will provide somethingfor everyone. We have taken on boarda lot of the comments we receivedafter the 2009 Symposium and this

year will be even bigger and even better. So you have the programme; all we need now to make 2010 aresounding success is you! Just don’tforget to book your place before 7thMay to receive the early bird discountthat retains 2009 prices.

We look forward to seeing you in June.

BCS Programme Committee

BCS represented at NACIS

BCS Corporate Member, STAR-APIC,attended the NACIS (North AmericanCartographic Information Society)2009 conference in Sacramento CA inOctober 2009 to present a paper andexhibit. Stuart Miller, right in the picture, of STAR-APIC presented aPhilips atlas, created with STAR-APICMercator software, to the luckyprizewinner of the charity draw. Whilstover there, Stuart helped promote theBCS in general and our forthcomingactivities in particular. He distributedflyers about BCS Symposium 2010:Talking with Maps, and flyers for theBCS Awards 2010 which explained the different categories of award andshowed examples of previous winningentries. Stuart also did a roaring tradein promoting the booklet, Cartographyan introduction. Thanks for all of yourhelp Stuart.

The historic King’s Road

If you should find yourself walkingdown the King’s Road, London SW3away from Sloane Square, by the oldDuke of York’s barracks you will comeacross an interesting piece of commemorative cartography in thepavement. Set into the pavement hereis a reproduction of an historic surveyof the King’s Road when it was indeedthe King’s private road. A small yetbeautiful reminder of the rich heritagethat is all around us in this greatmetropolis.

Thinking about your target audience

The best maps work because they’rewell designed and the map maker hasthought about the purpose of the mapand the target audience. The term ‘fitfor purpose’ is often used, meaningthat the map should show what isrequired in the clearest possible way.A map well designed for one purposemay not work when used in a differentapplication or for a different purpose.

The purpose and target audience willaffect your map’s design. If the map isillustrating an explanatory text, the

map’s contents should reflect the text.Maps which stand alone (such as asheet map) may need more legendinformation or an explanation of itspurpose. Don’t be afraid to use wordsin a legend – it’s not a weakness but a sign that you’ve worked out the contents through thought and careful analysis.

Consider why you’re making the map:what is its purpose? what informationshould it communicate? where will itappear, in what format and at whatsize? Map design and content needsto be right for the medium of delivery

— webpage/mobile device cartographyis quite different from a product destined for paper publication.

Tailor your design to the level of knowledge of your audience, giventhat an audience familiar with the subject will understand more complexsymbols and less legend information.If it’s for the ‘general public’ aim yourmap at the most important readers, or the largest group, since you can’tsatisfy everyone. Novices or youngeraudiences need fewer and simplersymbols rather than larger ones.


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Notes from the Carto-Guru

Alan Godfrey receives New Year’s honour

Alan Godfrey, a successful publisherof old maps, was made an MBE in this

year's Queen's New Year’s Honoursawards. Mr Godfrey, a lifelong lover of maps, made it his profession in1981, when he began publishing old Ordnance Survey maps, no longer covered by copyright. The Tyneside-born former actor and school music and drama teacher, has nowresearched and produced 2,300maps, covering the UK, and beginspreparation of his first German pre-war maps, this year.

He said more than 50 per cent of hisbusiness is down to the family historyboom, with London's East End andparts of Liverpool the most popular.

Zoomable map on paper!

map2 is a pocket-size map whichallows you to quickly find what youneed without wrestling against a king-size map.

map2 removes the need to unfoldunnecessary parts or the entire map.

map2 lets you zoom into greaterdetail.

In a single folding action chosen partsof a smaller scale map can be unfolded to give an enlarged and more detailed view of that same area underneath.

When the map is folded to its minimum size either of the sectionsfacing outwards can still be quicklyunfolded and refolded, allowing immediate magnification or miniaturisation.

Since the map can be folded to keepany two of the sections on the outside,you can decide which section is visiblefor quick consultation.

For more info on this great little mapvisit: www.the zoomablemap.com

Vernacular place names research project

Dr. Florian Twaroch and colleagues atCardiff University are working anOrdnance Survey research projectabout vernacular place names inGreat Britain. The research aims tocollect and represent informal placenames to improve information systemsthat are currently only based onadministrative place names.

They have launched a website atwww.yourplacenames.com with apostcode survey on informal placenames in Great Britain. Could Irequest anyone who is interested inmaps and place names to please consider taking part in the survey. The more people participate the better results for the research. Yourhelp in this is greatly appreciated.

Dr Suchith AnandUniversity of Nottingham


David Irvine – Travelling CartographerDavid is now in India. Visit his blog below and read of his travels in the sub-continent so far. He is currently resting in Goa, preparing himself for hisascent into the Himalayas. There are many beautiful photos to see on the blogand you get a sense of how beautiful our planet is. Follow his travels in everyissue of Maplines or on his blog on: http://davetreks.blogspot.com

The Lost Rivers of London #6Westbourne: flowing fromHampstead through Hyde Park ontoSloane Square and thence into theThames, the River Westbourne hasleft its mark on London toponymy,mainly by the other names it hasbeen called through the centuries:Kilburn, Bayswater, Serpentine,Bourne, Westburn Brook, Ranelaghand Ranelagh Sewer. Kilburn andBayswater nowadays are well-knownareas in London. The Serpentine,formed in 1730 to beautify HydePark, was fed with the Westbourne’swaters until 1834, by which time ithad become too polluted. Anotherarea owing its name to this stream isKnightsbridge – named after abridge over the Westbourne. It hasbeen driven underground since the1850s, when the area it flowsthrough was gobbled up by anexpanding London. An original partof the pipes it still runs through canbe seen above the platform ofSloane Square tube station. At lowtide, its mouth can be seen some300 yards west of Chelsea Bridge.

Courtesy of www.strangemaps.wordpress.com

Corporate NewsPeople •• Companies •• Products


IMTA (EAME) Bayonne, France

Bayonne was founded as a Roman fortified town at the junction of theNive and Adour rivers. The venue forthe conference was impressive andalong with the hospitality extended toall by our hosts gave the perfect setting for the show.

French Air Traffic Control did its best to disrupt the show. Exhibitors and delegates were delayed, arriving at different times and using all modes oftransport available and unfortunately in many cases travel was not possibleand cancellations were inevitable.Adjustments were made to the programme; we lost two speakers and ESRI cancelled their workshop,but the golf tournament organisersmanaged to adapt to the situation.

With Wednesday almost written off bythe travel chaos, Thursday was reallythe first opportunity for many to meetand greet both new and old friends

and business associates. A short walkcrossing over the river from the hotelto the Congress Centre and the morning kicked off with the newkeynote speaker Philippe de Maeyer,ICA giving a talk on the cartographicproduction process, ‘Modelling theflow: how, for whom and by whom’.

The show consisted of 16 stands andthe event was truly international with79 delegates in attendance, from 16countries from around the world.Delegates were taken around the exhibition as a group and eachexhibitor was given the opportunity to introduce themselves and theircompany. By all reports some goodbusiness was done.

Three more seminars were held on the first day. The first by Ajay Mathur,Axes Systems, a very interesting andrelevant discussion on improving your productivity in tough economic times.Sebastien Lanoe, Lorienne Softwaretalked about the challenges of

As I'm sure you are aware the BCSAnnual Symposium, ‘Talking withMaps’ takes place from 9-11 June atVillage Nottingham just off the M1motorway.

Once again we will be seeking sponsors for the event. We have decided to have Platinum, Gold andSilver sponsors as last year and keepthe sponsorship at the same level,that being £300, £200 and £100respectively. For this Corporate members will be entitled to: a freeexhibition space, your organisation'slogo will be in the Symposium programme, on menus and on theBCS website.

Also, you may have a pull-up banner inreception or the seminar room, makecontributions to the delegate bags andsponsors will be named in the conference report published inMaplines. It will also be possible tosponsor a particular activity such asreceptions, drinks at the Gala Dinnerand the Ceilidh.

We already have one platinum sponsor, Victoria Litho, so manythanks to 'The Wilsons' for setting the trend!

This is a great opportunity to advertiseyour organisation’s activities for a verymodest cost. Hope to see you there.

Peter JollyCorporate Liaison Officer

[email protected]

Folded MapGold ExpressMap Polska

Tatry Polskie I SlowackieSilverHarperCollins

Big Ben London Street Map

Flat MapGold HarperCollins

World & UK 3 Map SetSilverAGT Geocenter

Word Political & Infographics Map

AtlasGold Global Mapping

Earth World AtlasSilver Istituto Geografico DeAgostini

Il Mondo Atlante

GlobeGold Stellanova

Limani Globe

Digital DataGold ADW Software

Topografische Wandelkaarten Antwerpse Kempen

SilverGlobal MappingPeoples London Map

Travel Guide MappingGold ExpressMap Polska

Tatry Polskie I SlowackieSilverAutomobile Association UK

Cycling in the UK

OverallADW SoftwareTopografische Wandelkaarten Antwerpse Kempen

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processing data, diverse data sourcesand sharing data. Peter Jolly, ESRI UKstirred up an interesting debate ontracking applications using GIS andGPS and the suitability and capabilityof electronic displays to communicateinformation as intended rounded offthe day.

The first day of the Trade Show endedwith an evening reception at the BlackPrince Castle in Bayonne.

Friday began with two more seminars.Our Keynote speaker Paul Carill,Michelin gave a fascinating talk onMichelin Maps and Guides - 100 yearsand counting. Peter Davis, WorldMapman Solutions, Australia gave apassionate talk on customer relationsmarketing, its purpose, where it canwork in the Geo Spatial industry andmaking it work for you. Sophie Lafortfrom the Tourist Authority in Bayonnewas invited to tell us about the history,architecture and hidden treasures ofBayonne. Delegates were also invited

to take a guided tour of the town onthe Saturday morning.

The Conference and Trade Show wasa big event for the town and was heavily publicised in the local newspaper with a press conferencebeing held prior to the show. Severalvisitors came along to the Trade Showwhich was opened to the public onFriday. This was well received by allthose exhibiting.

The retailers got themselves togetherto organise a retail forum in the afternoon that was well represented. A note here for all publishers, we had10 independent retailers at the showfrom five different continents askingfor you!!

The Trade Show finished, but theevent was far from over as we madeour way to the Annual Dinner. Here we were treated to an evening of wonderful hospitality, food and entertainment. The winners of the

Best Map Awards were announced(see list) and the presentation tookplace during the evening.

The conference also saw a change inPresidents for the IMTA EAME regionwith Jon Bygate (AutomobileAssociation) taking over from KeithFerries (Cook, Hammond and Kell) forthe next two years.

Numbers were down; economic downturn and a French air traffic control strike all conspired against us. However, once again the IMTAConference and Trade Show providedan excellent forum for the cartographic world to network, dobusiness, and socialise in a beautifuland unique setting.

Alan GrimwadeDirector IMTA (EAME)

Managing Director Cosmographics

XYZ Products win Three IMTA Awards

The People’s Map of London receiveda Silver Award in the Best DigitalProduct category, while XYZ’s publishing co-edition partners AGTGeocentre won a Silver Award for theWorld Wall Map in Russian in the Best Wall Map category andMillennium House won the Gold Award for Best Atlas at theInternational Map Trade Association(IMTA) Gala Awards Dinner.

The People’s Map received the highlycommended silver award for its1:12,000 scale mapping of CentralLondon which was launched in

November 2009. Covering over 400sq km stretching from Richmond Parkin the South West to Epping Forest inthe North East the mapping wasderived from high resolution aerialphotography captured by Getmapping.A number of businesses and privateindividuals used the simple onlineediting tools to create the mapping. All data was then verified and rendered by mapping experts XYZprior to publication.

“There were numerous mapping products of a high quality in the BestDigital Product category, so to walkaway with a silver award is fantastic,and it really highlights the high quality

mapping we are able to deliver usingthe People’s Map process. It was alsogreat to see two of our clients receiving awards for products usingour mapping” said Dr Tim Rideout,Director of XYZ and the People’s Map,who was there to pick up the award.

The AGT Geocentre World Wall Map isa Russian language version of theGlobal Mapping World Political 1:30mmap that was created by XYZ. TheEurope map section of the MillenniumHouse World Atlas was created by XYZfrom the XYZ World 1:1m database.

For more information on the People’smap visit: www.peoplesmap.com

Visit the BCS website at www.cartography.org.uk

Exhibition

Cambridge University Library hasshone a light on the shadowyworld of espionage – using

recently declassified documents and ‘top secret’ material from its own archives.

The free exhibition, Under Covers:Documenting Spies, examines the artof espionage from Biblical times to theCold War era.

It draws on personal archives, printedbooks, official publicity material, popular journals and specialist photographs and maps, mostly fromthe University Library's own collections,to illustrate a few of the ways in whichspies have been documented throughthe centuries.

University Librarian Anne Jarvis said‘Under Covers brings together an astonishing variety of different kinds ofmaterial, all throwing light on the business of uncovering - and keeping -secrets. The University Library ispleased to be able to be uncoveringsome documentary evidence of thesesecrets in this exhibition.’

Exhibits range from a 12th-centurymanuscript recounting the story of KingAlfred the Great entering a Danishcamp disguised as a harpist to a

Soviet-era map of East Anglia.

John Ker's 18th-century ‘licence to spy’,granted by Queen Anne, shows that the underworld of spies was well-established long before JamesBond's licence to kill.

Other highlights include papers usedby a Parliamentary Committee investigating the Atterbury Plot of the1720s, a telegraph from the MI6 chiefof the day confirming news ofRasputin's murder, and letters to PrimeMinister Stanley Baldwin from LordCurzon and Winston Churchill, onlydeclassified in 2007.

Incensed at being denied access tointercepted Japanese telegramsalready seen by more junior personnel,Churchill, then Chancellor of theExchequer, wrote to Prime MinisterBaldwin on February 5, 1925:

‘How can I conduct the controversieson which the management of ourfinances depends, unless at least Ihave the same knowledge of secretstate affairs freely accessible to theofficials of the Admiralty? The words‘monstrous’ and ‘intolerable’ leap readily to mind.’

A 1985 Soviet map of East Angliashows English towns and cities inCyrillic script. Maps of this sort wereproduced by the Soviet military formore than 50 years before, during, andafter the Cold War. Classified as secret,these maps were unknown outside theSoviet military machine until the break-up of the USSR - when theybecame available on the open market.

The Atterbury Plot papers from the personal archive of Sir Robert Walpoleare among the jewels of the exhibition.The plot aimed to restore the Stuartmonarchy in Britain between theJacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745.One of these is a deposition of WilliamSquire concerning the arrest ofChristopher Layer on September 18,1722. Layer was later hanged, drawn

and quartered at Tyburn for his part inthe plot.

Twentieth-century material includes acopy of Compton MacKenzie's bookGreek Memories that belonged to MI5Deputy-Director Eric Holt-Wilson. Thebook resulted in MacKenzie being prosecuted under the Official SecretsAct after he gave details of his time asMI6 station chief in the EasternMediterranean. Holt-Wilson's copyshows the spy chief's own crossings-outof offending passages.

An Allied escape map of the German-Swiss frontier, a bogus map of theD-Day target area (accurate except formeaningless place names), anddetailed dossiers of information gathered by the Nazis for their plannedinvasion of Britain, form part of theexamination of espionage in theSecond World War.

The Cambridge Spies also feature with,among other items, student recordcards for Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess,Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and JohnCairncross, and a 1933 copy of TheGranta magazine with a mock interviewwith Donald Maclean which reveals hisability to take on different personae.


Cambridge Spies

Florence Hensey

MI5 New Year Card

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Intelligence historian Dr Nicholas Hiley,who has lent rare material from hisown collections for inclusion in the display, said: ‘A library might seem astrange place for an exhibition ofsecret service, given its associationwith guns, fast cars, and high-tech gadgetry.’

‘But the one thing that both espionageand counter-espionage have dependedupon for centuries is paper - for agentreports, ciphers and codes; for mapsand plans; for reports on suspects andadvice to government; and for the hundreds of thousands of files onwhich secret service depends. Paperhas also been the basis of the spy novels, memoirs, and histories whichhave revealed that secret world to awider public. In fact, libraries andarchives are the best place from whichto survey the long history of spies andspying.’

Under Covers: Documenting Spies runsfrom January 19 to July 3, 2010. Entryto the exhibition is free. Opening timesare Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm, Saturday9am-4.30pm, Sunday closed.

WWII espionage lecture notes

Soviet map of East Anglia

Thursday 26 January saw theUKGeoForum hold their first seminar of the year in the newly

refurbished lecture hall at RICS (RoyalInstitute of Chartered Surveyors) inLondon. The hall was standing roomonly when Vanessa Lawrence CB,Director General and Chief Executiveof Ordnance Survey, gave her presentation on ‘The Future ofMapping’.

Focusing on innovation and the changing demands for geographicinformation, the presentation coveredthe challenges national mapping agencies face in meeting thesedemands.

Mapping has come a long way sincethe early days of producing a one inchscale map of Kent in 1801. Papermaps are still popular and continue tobe widely produced and used by consumers, but the trend in GI is moving increasingly towards digitaldata. Vanessa illustrated the waygeography underpins the nation, withcase studies from United Utilities, theLondon Fire Brigade and the HomeOffice and examples of organisationsusing mapping such as the DistrictScouts, Parish Online and BrentBorough Council.

As GI becomes increasingly popularthe demand for real-time GI is increasing and keeping up with thisdemand means mapping agenciesmust innovate to survive. Generation Yare starting work having grown up withmobile phones and the Internet andexpect everything on demand. Theconsumers are rapidly becoming the‘prosumers’, owning the product andservice and customising it to suit theirspecific needs.

At Ordnance Survey, Vanessa highlighted how customers can usethe flagship product OS MasterMap toattach their own information to it tosuit their own needs. For those whowould rather innovate on a smallerscale, they have OS OpenSpace, aneasy-to-use, free service for

developers giving increased access tomapping and enabling them to showtheir own data on top of OrdnanceSurvey maps. A more recent additionhas been the GeoVation network helping individuals, businesses andcommunities bring their map basedideas to life, whilst encouraging andsupporting innovation for social, economic and environmental benefitthrough the use of geographic information. The GeoVation Challengesaw MaxiMap, Mission:Explore Londonand London Blue Plaques win£20,000 to fund their innovative ideasincorporating GI.

Seeing people using these productsand applications emphasises howmuch GI underpins, even when it can’tbe seen. Commonly, CCTV platformscombine with GI data to produceimagery, but increasingly, GI is used to create 3D or 4D as time is incorporated into GI applications andeven 5D as virtual reality is added.Location based information is becoming commonplace as more people have, for example, GPS ontheir mobile phones which can beused to help them find the nearestgarage or cinema to their current location. Vanessa detailed the morerecent release of Locatorz, a subscription-based service whichallows users to track the location of amobile phone. This can provide agreater safety for lone-workers andillustrates how far mapping has comein recent years.

As innovation with mapping continueswe can expect more intelligence to beattached to mapping and in more personal ways. Ubiquitous positioningshould allow a ‘point and click’ worldwhere we can point a device, such asa mobile phone, towards a location,such as a building, and the device willbe able to tell us information aboutthat building, such as address, useand so on. Further work is also beingcarried out into vernacular geographyand how local names and descriptionsoften differ from official names.Mapping this information could be of

crucial importance to the ambulanceservice and others in helping themreach locations more quickly.

Vanessa ended by discussing thefuture role of Ordnance Survey following announcements by ourPrime Minister, Gordon Brown, thatthe Government would increaseaccess to Ordnance Survey data aspart of its Making Public Data Publicinitiative from April 2010.

Vanessa summed up by emphasisingthat it is an exciting time for GI as therole it plays is being discussed withinthe highest levels of government andits value is being recognised as vital todaily life. Ordnance Survey is proud tosee its data being relied on by government, business and individualsacross the board.

Gemma BaimbridgeOrdnance Survey Press Office


UK GeoForum lecture

The Future of Mapping

AgiGEOCOMMUNITY’09

Most appropriately the strap-line for theagiGEOCOMMUNITY

Conference, held at the Holiday Inn in Stratford-upon-Avon from 23-24September was, ‘Realising the Valueof Place’. There were over 620 attendees at the Conference over the2 days and there were 23 exhibitors.As in previous years the emphasiswas on providing high quality presentations from high quality presenters as opposed to relying onthe exhibition to attract visitors. Thatsaid, the BCS was given a table topand with our new banners, flyers forthe Better Mapping Series, the 2010BCS Symposium, the BCS MapAwards and some additional


At the recent InternationalCartographic Conference inChile, the ICA Executive met

twice with National delegates. In thefirst meeting the Executive presentedtheir thoughts on how the Associationshould develop in the short to mediumterm. At the second meeting Nationaldelegates had an opportunity to provide their thoughts on currentissues facing the Association.Unfortunately there was not time inthis second meeting to discuss any ofthe wide range of issues raised. DavidFairbairn (Secretary General) compileda list of the points and asked that delegates respond to the Executivedocument and the other points within a month of the meeting.Responses will be discussed at thenext Executive meeting and will helpthe Executive form a plan of action.

The list of issues raised was discussed by the UK CartographyCommittee at its meeting inDecember. What follows is an extractof some of the key issues and theUKCC's response; currently we awaitfeedback from the Executive. I wouldwelcome any comments from BCSmembers, particularly those who haveattended recent conferences or whoare involved in commissions or working groups.

� Commissions and WorkingGroups The UKCC support the viewthat there could be better strategicplanning of these and stricterguidelines for approving them;there needs to be clearer engagement between nationalcommittees and Commissions;UKCC has suggested there shouldbe a minimum standard contentfor Commission websites.

� Guidelines for organising conferences These need to beupdated with more control by ICAand more involvement ofCommission in determining theprogramme and in paper selection;certain things should be required,such as a delegates list, contactboard and better information forsession chairs. The UKCC havesuggested a Vice-President shouldbe specifically appointed to liaisewith conference organisers in order to improve continuity fromconference to conference.

� Meeting with national delegatesThese should be a regular part ofall conferences with an agenda circulated well in advance so thatkey issues can be discussed byNational committees prior to theconference.

� The International Map ExhibitionThe UKCC support the view that

this should be seen as a keyaspect of conferences, should bein appropriate exhibition space andshould be open to the public as away of promoting cartography widely; there needs to be clearerguidelines for contributions andcategories should be reviewed; theissue of digital contributions needsto be addressed.

� National Reports (submitted everyfour years). The UKCC do not support the suggestion that thereshould be a standard format forthese. Cartography and its organisation vary greatly fromcountry to country, so standardisation is difficult toimpose. The UK publishes one ofthe most comprehensive reportsas a special issue of theCartographic Journal and see thisas a valuable benefit to our members; standardisation wouldlead to bland reports.

� Involvement of professional cartographers This has declinedover the years and should beaddressed – very strongly supported by UKCC.

David ForrestChair UK Cartography Committee and UK National delegate to ICA

Future plans and a UK response

ICA

brochures from fellow UK GEOForummembers all looked very colourful.Moreover, Mary managed to persuadea number of delegates to join the BCSand sold some of the ‘Cartography anintroduction’ booklets.

Of the presentations I heard therewere four that stood out. The first wasgiven by the irrepressible Ed Parsons,Geospatial Technologist of Google. Edgave a carefully crafted, entertaininginsight into his views on the muchdebated subject of the rights to use,derive and exploit information createdwith reference to base mapping andoffered some potential solutionsabout how this dilemma may beresolved. The second was given by Dr Richard Waite, MD of ESRI(UK), a

well-structured presentation in whichhe declared that the present economic downturn was in fact a greatopportunity for the GIS industry. It wasa chance to make senior managersaware of the financial benefits thatGIS could bring to their enterprise. Heemphasised the need for everyone tomake senior managers aware thatgeographic information is an indispensible part of everyday life.

Thirdly, Dr Seppe Cassettari, CEO ofthe GeoInformation Group, made thecase for an alternative large scalemapping database of the UK anddescribed the development of thisexciting project. Finally, and by nomeans least, there was a presentationand demonstration by Mark Smith,

Head of Biology, and Steve Dunn, aGeography teacher, and 3 studentsfrom the Grammar School at Leeds.

The School has been engaged in aprogramme to develop teachingresources using GIS. The masters andstudents demonstrated how GIS isused in the School in such diversesubjects as: Biology, Maths, History,Geography, Religious and BusinessStudies. At the end of the session thegroup received a standing ovation. Iwas particularly pleased as I went toLeeds Grammar School and during mylast visit to the School in the 1980s Imet the Deputy Headmaster whosename was also Peter Jolly! I digress,perhaps the next step at the Schoolshould be to introduce cartography.


Admin Report

BCS Administration ReportSubscriptions for 2010Subscriptions are now due!Corporate Member £180.00Small Corporate Member £75.00(Contact BCS Administration for details)Fellow £50.00Ordinary Member £35.00Associate Member £15.00Optional airmail supplementfor Overseas members £15.00

Renewal forms were enclosed with theDecember 2009 edition of Maplines(or from from BCS Administration).Members have a choice of four methods of payment:• On-line at www.cartography.org.uk.

Click on ‘About the Society’ andfollow the links ‘Join the Society’and ‘Join or Renew now’. Selectyour membership category, clickon ‘Renew membership’ and followthe instructions.

• Personal cheque payable to TheBritish Cartographic Society (Or foroverseas members a Sterling Draftpayable in London).

• Visa/Mastercard/Delta credit card.You can do this over the phone tothe Admin Office.

• Standing Order (UK bank accountholders only).

In May reminder letters will be sent to allthose members whose subscriptions arestill outstanding and, if payment has notbeen received by 1 July 2010, theirnames will be removed from the mailinglists for The Cartographic Journal andMaplines. Receipts will be sent out asusual but please note that your membership card will only be replaced ifit has been lost or damaged. Pleasemake a note of your membership number. You will need it to enter theMembers’ Area on the Society’s website.

Membership: At the end of 2009 ourmembership figures stood at:(Figures at 31 Dec 2009 are in italics)Corporate Members 62 59Honorary Fellows 9 9Fellows (incl Overseas) 111 112 UK Members 305 299Overseas Members 52 59Associate Members 41 41Making a total of 580 579

During 2009 85 new members joinedthe Society with 18 resignations and 1death. At the end of the year 63 members were removed from our mailinglist for non payment of subscriptions andwe lost contact with six members whochanged addresses. At the time of writing(late February) three of the 63 suspended members have now paid infull and since 1 January 2009 we havewelcomed 12 new members.

New members: The Society has pleasurein welcoming the following new memberswho have joined since publication of theWinter 2009 edition of Maplines.Corporate Members:Europa Technologies Ltd, Informap Ltd,Momentum Sign Consultants.UK Members:Mr N.J. Archer, Mr R. Baxter, Mr L. Butler,Mr M. Delev, Mrs V.M. Miskimmon MBE,Lt Col H.M. Nash, Mrs D. Rhodes, Mr C.Styche, Mr M.D. Watt.Overseas Members:Mr J.G. Drent, Mr D. Elder, Ms C.M. Farr,Dr E. Heere, Mr R. Mulenga.UK Associate Members:Mr S. Castledine, Mr A.D. Cooper, Mr C. Davies, Mr J.X. Monteiro, Mr L. Parker.

Fellows:At its meeting in January, Council waspleased to award Fellowship status to Mr C. Cragg FBCart.S and Mr S. LambeFBCart.S.

If you would like to apply to become aFellow of the Society please contact BCSAdministration.

BCS Council: You will find enclosed in this issue ofMaplines a form for nominating members to the BCS Council. Council isthe Society’s governing body and it isvital for the Society that it consists of afair representation of the membership sothat it can clearly reflect the diversity ofthe Society. The Society’s President andVice President are keen to get newCouncil members on board to helpachieve the strategic objectives and tostrengthen the Society. Council must bea dynamic body where lively debate on

how to take the Society forward can takeplace. Please consider carefully what roleyou could play within the Society, andwhether you would wish to stand for election to Council this year. Meetingsare held three times a year in Londonwith an additional meeting at eachSymposium. Expenses are paid for attendance at meetings and to coverother costs resulting directly from Societybusiness. The next election will takeplace at the AGM in November.If you wish to stand, please find twomembers who are willing to propose andsecond you, and ensure the enclosedform is completed and returned to theaddress on the form by 1 July 2010.Forms can be mailed or faxed.If you want more information about whatit might involve, or if you wish to standbut need help in contacting other members to nominate you, please contact me at BCS Administration.

And finally….As this is my first full report as yourAdministrator I would like thank all thosemembers for whose welcoming words ofkindness, patience and advice over thepast few months have been most appreciated. I am still in almost daily contact with my bearded mentor (Ken)over the complexities of my role but thelight at the end of the tunnel is beginningto get brighter. For those GIS enthusiastsI probably upset with my remarks aboutSat Nav v paper maps in the last editionof Maplines, take heart, in the Januarysales I succumbed to my Northern thriftiness and purchased a Tom Tom XLClassic Sat Nav which I have not yet putto full use. So if you see a silvered hairedgentleman parked at the roadside andcursing at the dashboard it could just beme!! I look forward to meeting membersat my first Annual Symposium in June.

Roger HoreBCS Administration, 15 The Crescent, Stanley Common,

Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 6GL

England, UK.Tel/Fax: +44 (0)115 9328684


Calendar

Calendar

Publicise your events on this page. Send your information through to the Editors. See page 2.

9 – 11 June 2010BCS Annual Symposium: Talking with MapsVillage Hotel, Nottingham, UKFor further info see pages 8-9

15 – 19 June 201017th Conference of the LIBERGroupe des CartothécairesTallin, EstoniaFor further info and bookings seewww.nlib.ee/gdc

1 – 3 September 2010Governance and the GeowebRoyal Geographical Society AnnualInternational Conference, LondonFor further info and bookings seewww.rgs.org/AC2010

30 April – 19 September 2010Magnificent Maps: Power,Propaganda and ArtBritish Library, London, UKFor further info see p2 or visitwww.bl.uk/magnificentmaps

Until 3 July 2010Under Covers: Documenting SpiesCambridge University Library, Cambridge, UKOpening times: Monday to Friday 9am – 6pm; Saturday 9am – 4.30pm; Sunday closed

This is a free exhibition

8 – 10 September 2010Beyond the Neat Line: BCS MapCurators’ Group Workshop 2010Workshop covering topics such asmarginalia, metadata, productionmethods and helping users accessmaps via new technologies.Cambridge University, Cambridge,UKFor further info contact Anne Taylor,[email protected]

EDITORS’ CHOICE

29 April, 2010Settling Disputes throughCartography in Fourteenth-CenturyPalma de Mallorca: The Map ofthe Siquia Aqueduct Dr Chet VanDuzer

27 May, 2010European Encounters with 'theOther' in Sixteenth-CenturyCartographyDr Sandra Sáenz-López Perez,Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación,Madrid

University of London, WarburgInstitute, Woburn Square, LondonWC1H OAB, at 5.00 pm

Admission is free and each meetingis followed by refreshments.

Convened by Dr. Catherine DelanoSmith (Institute of HistoricalResearch, University of London),Tony Campbell (formerly MapLibrary, British Library) andAlessandro Scafi (WarburgInstitute). Enquiries to +44 (0) 20 8346 5112

Oxford Seminars on Cartography

13 May 2010The Corpus Christi Collection: a set of Dutch and English manuscript sea charts of SouthEast Asia and the East Indies from around 1660-1670Sjoerd de Meer, Maritiem Museum,Rotterdam. Seminar runs from5.00pm to 6.30pm at the Universityof Oxford Centre for theEnvironment, South Parks Road,Oxford, OX1 3QY

The Oxford Seminars in Cartographyare supported by the Friends ofTOSCA, ESRI (UK) Ltd, OxfordCartographers, and the School ofGeography and the Environment

For more info [email protected] tel: 01865 287119

Cambridge Seminars in theHistory of Cartography 2010

4 May 2010… about the history of theOrdnance Survey Rachel Hewitt, University ofGlamorgan Details are also available at www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/camsem0910.html

All seminars will be held at 5.30pmin Emmanuel College, St Andrew'sStreet, Cambridge, England CB23AP in either the Harrods Room orthe Gardner Room. For more info contact [email protected]: 01223 330476

Maps and Society NineteenthSeries Programme

Cambridge Seminars in theHistory of Cartography 2010

EDITORS’ CHOICE

Oxford Seminars on Cartography

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Quiz

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ROYAL RIFLESOF CANADA

Stanley Village

Aberdeen

Wanchai

The Peak

Victoria

LionRock

Tunnel

Japanese landings18/19 December 1941

Front Line19 December


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Japanese230 Regement



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Shing MunRedoubt

Kai TakAir�eld

Bu�aloHill

Kowloon CantonRailway

CoveHill

GrassyHill

Tai MoShan

Shing Mun

GoldenHill

North PointTai KooDocks

LAMMAISLAND

HONG KONGISLAND

NEW TERRITORIES

RepulseBay

DeepWater

Bay

Tai TamReservoir

Victoria Harbour

Tide Cove

Gin Drinkers’ Bay

TsuenWan

KowloonHarbour

JunkBay

Stanley Fort

St Stephen’s College

Company

Battalion

Brigade

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