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Society of Cartographers

44th Annual Summer School, Aberdeen

1-4 September 2008


Summer School Presentations

SESSION 1: Aberdeen City and Region - an introduction:

  •    Brief history of Old Aberdeen - Chris Croly

SESSION 2: Maps and changing Coastlines

SESSION 3: 3D challenges: mountains and oil exploration

  • New Panoramas of the Cairngorms - Aaron Lawton
  • 3D Visualisation in oil exploration - Mark Douglas

SESSION 4: New Mapping - 1

  • Building the Global Map: filling the gaps - Ed Parsons

SESSION 5: New Mapping - 2

SESSION 6: Members' Session

SESSION 7: New Initiatives

  • Making better maps with CloudMade - Andy Allan

SESSION 9: Keynote

SESSION 10: Environmental Mapping

  • End Noise Maps for Scotland - David Palmer

SESSION 11: Special Topics

  • Supranational cartographic styles in European 1:50 000 topographic mapping - Alex Kent