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Society of Cartographers

44th Annual Summer School, Aberdeen

1-4 September 2008


Programme

Monday 1st September

9.30   SoC Committee Meeting – St Mary’s Building

11.00 Registration Commences, Room 117, St Mary’s Building

Coffee and Tea

12.30 Lunch at the Hub

1.30   Opening and welcome to Aberdeen University

Session 1 – Aberdeen City and Region – an introduction

1.45  Brief history of Old Aberdeen – Chris Croly, Assistant Keeper, Research, Aberdeen City Archaeological Unit.
  
2.15  Aberdeen and Oil – David Macdonald, Head of the School of Geosciences.

2.45  Scottish Outdoor Access Code: local implications – Bob Reid, Convener, National Access Forum.

Coffee and Tea Room 117, St Mary’s

Session 2 – Maps and changing coastlines

3.45  Maldives: Coastline and sea-level change – Sue Dawson, Aberdeen Institute for Coastal Science and Management.

4.15  Coastlines and tsunamis – Alastair Dawson, Aberdeen Institute for Coastal Science and Management

4.45  Terrain 3D modelling for the assessment of coastal change – Cristina Gomez, Scottish Natural Heritage Project.

5.30  Games in Seaton Park

6.30  Dinner at Hillhead Hall

8.00  Quiz in the Hillhead Watering Hole Bar

Tuesday 2nd September

Session 3 – 3D challenges: mountains and oil exploration

9.00   New Panoramas of the Cairngorms – Aaron Lawton, Designer, Aaron Lawton Associates.

9.30   Evaluating the effectiveness of 2D versus 3D trailhead maps -  Tom Patterson, Cartographer, US National Parks Service, and David Schobesberger, University of Vienna.

10.00 3D visualization in oil exploration – Mark Douglas, Senior Geologist, Schlumberger Information Solutions

Coffee and Tea, Room 117, St Mary’s

Session 4 – New Mapping – 1

11.00  Micro mapping for kayakers – Nick Tasker, Commercial Communications Manager, UK Hydrographic Office

11.30  Deriving and representing a heighted route network for wheelchair users – Iain Wright, Research student, University of Aberdeen.

12.00  Building the global map: filling the gaps – Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist, Google

12.30  Lunch in the Hub

1.30     Depart for Visits

   Shell Oil HQ, Aberdeen
   (Aberdeen University Library. This visit has had to be cancelled - sorry)
   Guided walk around Old Aberdeen, Chris Croly
   Macaulay Institute for Land Use Research – Virtual Landscape Theatre, David Miller

6.30  Dinner at Hillhead

8.00  Annual General Meeting (Hillhead, adjacent to the bar)

Wednesday 3rd September

Session 5 – New Mapping – 2

9.00    OSM Cycle maps – Andy Allan, Technical Lead, CloudMade, London

9.30    Interactive thematic mapping software with dynamically-linked charts and tables for the Web - The InstantAtlas solution – John E Bartholomew, Geowise, Edinburgh

10.00  An Internet journey planner for cyclists – Tom Burslem, Cyclecityguides

Coffee and Tea, Room 117, St Mary’s

Session 6 - Members' Session

11.00  Members' 10-minute presentations, to include:

     Steve Chilton – Aberdeen Online
     Graham Allsopp - the impacts of the new DfT initiative on cycle provision

Session 7 - New Initiatives

11.45  Making better maps with CloudMade     Andy Allan, Technical Lead, CloudMade

12.00  ArcGIS9's cartographic features             Paul Hardy, ESRI Europe

12.45  Workshop leaders explain the afternoon's sessions (in Main Lecture Theatre)

1.00    Lunch at the Hub

Session 8 - Demonstrations and Workshops

(starting from 1.45, but in Computer Labs in St Mary’s and The Meston Building)

1. Digital panorama production, using prepared data and scene-rendering software to create a small mountain scene – Tom Patterson, Cartographer, US National Parks Service

2. Advice from the Experts: an interactive Participatory Workshop using a range of software such as Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, ArcGIS9, MapInfo and MaPublisher (individually or in combination) for cartographic design, map layout, production and data exchange with GIS files, Ordnance Survey/DigiMap data, Google Maps,  conducted by Mike Shand, Stuart Gill and Dave Hume.  Between them, they have almost 50 years of experience using Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand (see Profiles). 

3. Explore the cartographic capabilities of ArcGIS for map design and production - Paul Hardy, ESRI Europe

4. Mapping with CloudMade - Andy Allan, Technical Lead, CloudMade, London

Coffee and Tea,

7.0 Drinks Reception, Annual Dinner and Ceilidh -  East Aberdeenshire Golf Centre

Thursday 4th September

Session 9 – Keynote

9.30  Mapping from the Cradle to the Grave – Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield

Session 10 – Environmental Mapping

10.15  A century of glacier cartography in Western Canada – Roger Wheate, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

10.45  End noise maps for Scotland -  David Palmer, Technical Director of Noise Mapping, Environmental Section, Faber Maunsell.

Coffee and Tea, Room 117, St Mary’s

Session 11 – Special Topics

11.45  Tribunal Mapping in New Zealand – Max Oulton, Cartographer, University of Waikato, NZ

12.15  Supranational cartographic styles in European 1:50 000 topographic mapping - Alex Kent, Head, Cartographic Unit, Southampton University

12.45  From here to Timbuktu : the calligraphic carto-antics of an old cartographer's take on mapping the history of Islam! (or 'The cartographic challenges of mapping the 4th Dimension the other way round') - Andrew M. Currie, Cartographic Publishing Consultant,  Creative Viewpoint - 'Where ideas map out' (Glasgow)

13.15 Close of Conference

Lunch in The Hub