Within the framework of the research work Coloured Maps (2018-2021) financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), several institutions in Hamburg organize a conference to deal with the material substrate and the meaning of colours from different cultural approaches in cartography. We will talk about maps and colours, methods and discourses, […]
The Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) organizes, in collaboration with the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, a conference to discuss the state of the art in automatic vectorization of old maps, with particular emphasis on the use of free and open […]
The Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), University of Lisbon, announces the celebration of the third conference on the history of nautical cartography On the origin and evolution of the nautical chart, which will be held at the Instituto Hidrográfico from Lisbon on June 4 and 5, 2020. On this occasion […]
The next 6th of June the conference Barcelona i la conquesta de Nàpols: El repte d’un canvi geopolític will take place in Barcelona. The conference is organized by the History of Barcelona Museum (MUHBA) and, among other things, our colleage Ramon Pujades will present the cartographic piece recently recover: a map of Italia of Bartolome Pareto made in 1457 in which […]
In October, from 10th to 12th of 2019, the Second biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography will take place at the David Rumsey Map Center in Stanford. In this edition, the theme will be focused on the relationship between gender, sexuality and cartography. The most part of speakers are experts in maps and cartographic production and their presentations will […]
The GEHC has participated in the 14th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (ICA DACH), celebrated in Tesalonica in May, from 8th to 10th, with two conferences: ROSET R., C. MONTANER, D. BARROT: How to recover and preserve hybrid map series produced at the end of the 20th century. NOBAJAS A.: Towards the systematic vectorisation of historical cartography. You can […]