At the 1995 General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association in Barcelona the Map Use Commission was established, with Dr. James Carter, USA, Chair, and Dr. Milan Konecny, Czech Republic, Co-Chair.  In the previous four years this had been the Map and Spatial Data Use Commission under the same leadership.

In 1999 at the General Assembly of the ICA in Ottawa, I stepped down as Chair of the Commission.  Dr. Konecny was elected Vice President of the ICA.  The Commission was redefined as the Commission on Maps and the Internet under the direction of Dr. Michael Peterson, USA, and Dr. Georg Gartner, Austria.

Map Use continues as a emphasis both within the ICA and on my pages.  Follow these links to the many pages of the International Cartographic Association and the U.S. National Committee for the ICA.

My personal work on map use is built on what was developed through the activities of the Map Use Commission.

From 1995 through 1999 the Map Use Commission organized, participated in and published:

• Joint Commission Seminar in Madrid on Teaching Animated Cartography, 1995, with papers published in a Proceedings

• Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, USA,  April 1996 - organized two sessions on map use. The papers from this session were solicited for publication in Cartographic Perspectives.

• Brno, Czech Republic, conducted a workshop on map use, April 1996.  There was no proceedings of the workshop.

• Joint Commission Seminar, Santiago, Chile, as part of IV Congreso Internacional De Ciencias De La Tierra, August 1996.  Papers from the seminar were included in the Proceedings of the Congreso. 

• Joint Commission Seminar as part of the Gifu Map Summit, Gifu City, Japan, 9 November, 1996. Papers were included in the Proceedings entitled Cognitive Map, Children, and Education in Cartography.

• Berlin, Germany, Mass Media Maps with contributions from two members of the Commission, 1997 in Wolfgang Scharfe (ed.) Proceedings, International Conference on Mass Media Maps: Approaches, Results, Social Impact. Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, 1997, Reihe C Kartographie, 16.

• Working meetings on map use at ICA Technical Conference, Stockholm, 1997, where more than a dozen persons shared their interest in map use.

• Joint Commission Seminar on National Atlases, following the ICA Technical Conference, Stockholm, 1997.  No proceedings came from this seminar. 

• Brno, CR, seminar on Map Use, June 1998 preceding the Brno GIS Conference.

• Barnaul, Russia, Intercarto 4, July 1998, Chair of the Map Use Commission helped organize the program of the Conference and presented at the Conference.

• Publication of papers in Cartographic Perspectives, vols 28 and 30.  Volume 28 was a special issue focusing on map use edited by Carter and Dymon.

• NVK - Netherlands Cartographic Society experiments with cycling maps and users responses to those maps.

The Map and Spatial Data Use Commission of the International Cartographic Association   1991 - 1995

From 1991 through 1995 the Map and Spatial Data Use Commission was involved in:

• Joint Commission Seminar on Electronic Atlases, Visegrad, Hungary, 1993.  The paper were published.

• Working meetings on map use at the ICA Technical Conference, Cologne, 1993.

• Joint Commission Seminar on Electronic Atlases at the American Congress on Survey and Mapping Conference in the USA, 1994.

• Organized the Joint Commission Seminar on Animation in Cartography held in Madrid before the ICA Conference in Barcelona, 1995. (see above)

• incubated a working group on Cartographic Visualization which evolved into the Visualization Commission of the ICA.

• incubated a working group on Cartography and Children which became a formal Working Group in 1995 and a separate Commission in 1999.

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