NEWS ARCHIVE

20. 03. 2007.

Prof. NEDJELJKO FRANCULA, Honorary Member of the Croatian Cartographic Society On the 5th Annual Assembly of the Croatian Cartographic Society, Prof. Nedjeljko Francula has been elected an Honorary Member of the Croatian Cartographic Society for his contribution to the development of contemporary Croatian cartography and for his excellence in scientific work and education.

05. 02. 2007.

Conference Cartography, Geoinformation and the Sea Zadar, June 15-16, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

27. 2. 2007.

5th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CROATIAN CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY The Annual meeting of the Croatian Cartographic Society will be on 16 March 2007 at Faculty of Geodesy, Kaciceva 26, Zagreb, with beginning at 12am.

15. 01. 2007.

Children's World Map 2007 A Call to the Competition The Barbara Petchenik Award was created by the International Cartographic Association in 1993 as a memorial for Barbara Petchenik, a past Vice president of the ICA and cartographer who worked through her life with maps related to children. The aim of the contest is to promote the creative representation of the world in graphic form by children. The awards are given every two years during an ICA conference, preferably at least one for each continent, with special consideration to the age of the child producing the drawing - map. Read the Rules of the competition.

6. 2. 2007. The 2007 Dr. Walter W. Ristow prize for academic achievement in the history of cartography and map librarianship The prize, awarded since 1994, recognizes academic achievement in History of Cartography or Map Librarianship, and honors the legacy of Dr. Walter Ristow, Chief Emeritus of the Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress, and co-founder and first president of the Washington Map Society. Invitation in PDF.

28. 12. 2006. The 6th issue of the journal Cartography and Geoinformation has been published!

1. 9. 2006. European Soil Bureau Network workshop will be held in Zagreb Croatia in period from 28-30 September. The workshop is jointly organized by the JRC Ispra and the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb. More information on http://eusoils.jrc.it/esbn/esbn_zagreb/.

16. 8. 2006. Croatian Cartographic Society at the INTERGEO 2006, 10-12 October, 2006, Munich. More information on www.geo-community.de and www.intergeo.de.

16. 8. 2006. Conference Cartography, Geoinformation and Spatial Data Visualization, September 15-16, 2006 Call for papers.

24. 4. 2006. The 2006 Dr. Walter W. Ristow prize for academic achievement in the history of cartography and map librarianship The prize, awarded since 1994, recognizes academic achievement in History of Cartography or Map Librarianship, and honors the legacy of Dr. Walter Ristow, Chief Emeritus of the Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress, and co-founder and first president of the Washington Map Society. Invitation in PDF.

May 18-19, 2006., Thessaloniki, Greece The International Cartographic Association Working Group on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage is organizing the First International Workshop on "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage", to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on May 18-19, 2006. The announcement, the call for papers and the registration form are in the Workshop's web site: http://www.maplibrary.gr/ICA_Heritage/Workshop.htm

30th March - 1st April, 2006., Bohinj, Slovenia 5th ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop. Workshop's web site: http://www.geod-is.si/mcws06/

8-9. 3. 2005. NSDI Croatia, Interoperability Demonstrator Project Programme in PDF.

7-9. 3. 2005. Third Croatian Congress on Cadastre

Prof. NEDJELJKO FRANCULA, Life Time Achievement Award from Croatian Academy of Engineering.

Cartography of European Cities Map exibition, Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb 27 october - 5 november 2003 open from 11am to 7pm on working days, from 10am to 1pm on Sundays free entrance. Catalogue of the exibition (in Croatian) in PDF (250 kB)

SEE-SDI 2003 international conference on spatial data infrastructures in South East Europe will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 23-24 October 2003. http://www.gisig.it/gisee/conferenza/conference_w.htm

ISPRS-WG VI/3 workshop Geoinformation for Practice will be held in hotel Opera in Zagreb from 15-18 October 2003. Organizers are Section of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing of the Croatian Geodetic Society and State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. http://www.comm6wg3-isprs-meeting2003.com.hr/programh.html

Josip Faricic defended his master thesis "Zadarski otoci na kartografskim prikazima od 16. do pocetka 19. stoljeca" (Islands of Zadar on maps from 16th to beginning of 19th century) on 18 September 2003 at Geographic Department of the Faculty of the Natural Sciences in Zagreb.

The exibition "Kartografija Zadra" (Cartography of Zadar) on the occasion of the 3rd Croatian Geographic Congress in Zadar could be visited on 24th and 25th September 2003 in Gradska Straza at Narodni trg (square) in Zadar. Catalogue of the exibition (in Croatian) in PDF (605 kB)

Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb and Croatian Cartographic Society invites you to the lecture "History of Urban Mapping in Japan - Between Picture and Survey", which will be presented by Prof. Koji Hasegawa, University of Kobe. The lecture will be in English on 15 September 2003 with beginning at 11am at Faculty of Geodesy, Kaciceva 26, Zagreb.

Prof. Miljenko Lapaine will hold the lecture "Croatian Cartography 1999-2003" in organization of the Croatian Cartographic Society on 9 July 2003 at the Faculty of Geodesy, Zagreb, Kaciceva 26, with beginning at 10am.

Institute for Croatian History invites you to the lecture "Cartography as Means for International Relations Analysis", which will be presented by Mr. Franck Tetart, a scientist at the Institute for political sciences and cartographic analyses in Paris and coauthor of TV Arte emission "Dessous des cartes". The lecture will be in English with public disscussion, on 20 May 2003 in hall VI of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Ivana Lucica 3, with beginning at 9.30am. The moderator will be Prof. Drago Roksandic.

Prof. Miljenko Lapaine will hold the lecture "The Geodetic and Cartographic Themes in the Geographic Textbooks" in organization of the Croatian Geographic Society and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zadar, in Zadar 20 May 2003 with beginning at 7pm.

French Embassy in Zagreb invites you to the lecture "Enlargement of Europe: a geographical, economical or political project" which will be presented by Mr. Franck Tetart, a scientist for political sciences and cartographic analyses, on 20 May 2003 at 6pm in the Mediateque of the French Institute in Zagreb. The lecture will be in french. Also, a projection of the emmision "Le Dessous des Cartes" will be given.

The exibition "Martin Rota Kolunic and Natale Bonifacio - The Works in Croatian Collections" was opened on Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 7pm, in the Prints and Drawings Department of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Science (Kabinet grafike HAZU), Strossmayer Square 12, Zagreb. The exibition can be visited every day except Sunday from 10am till 6pm.

The Geographic Winter Seminar organized by the Croatian Geographic Society will be hold from 10 to 11 January 2003 in Zagreb, Marulic Square 19. On 10 January 2003. at 16.30, Prof. Miljenko Lapaine will hold the lecture: The Geodetic and Cartographic Themes in the Geographic Textbooks.

The new book by academician Mirko Markovic: Klaudije Ptolomej has been published, publisher is Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2002, pocket-edition.

The new book by academician Mirko Markovic: Hrvatska na starim zemljovidima (Croatia on old maps) has been published, publisher is Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2002, pocket-edition with 10 color maps.

The new book by academician Mirko Markovic and Martin Vukovic: Zagrebacka Sokadija has been published, publisher is Sokadija-Zagreb, Zagreb, 2002, with numerous color maps.

Prof. Miljenko Lapaine will hold the lecture Francuski i hrvatski kartografi (French and Croatian Cartographers) at Thursday, 7 November 2002 at the Mediateque of French Institute in Zagreb, Preradoviceva 5 with beginning at 18 pm.

Prof. Miljenko Lapaine will hold the lecture on cartography in a modern textbooks on geography for elementary and high schools at Wednesday, 2 October 2002 at the Mathematical Department of the Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Bijenicka 30 with beginning at 18.30 pm.

The new book "Kartograf Ivan Klobucaric i Rijeka" (Cartographer Ivan Klobucaric and Rijeka) by academician Mirko Markovic has been published. The publisher is Adamic, Zvonimirova 20a, 51001 Rijeka, tel.: +385 51 650 180, + 385 51 650 145, faks: +385 51 650 144, e-mail: franjo.butorac@novi-list.tel.hr, http://www.adamic.hr. The price is 33.25 Euro.

Nada Vucetic, PhD will hold the inauguratory lecture on 20 September 2002 at Faculty of Geodesy in Zagreb, classroom 120 with beginning at 11.30 am. The title of lecture is "Generalization in Digital Cartography" ("Generelizacija u digitalnoj kartografiji").

City map of Split prepared by Ivan Tosic and Ivan Stojak was presented on 11 July 2002 at atrium of Art gallery, Split. The map is published by Mogucnosti d.o.o.

Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia has published a fifth edition of publication Znaci i kratice na hrvatskim pomorskim kartama. The publication is printed at A4 format, it has 96 pages in color and the content is translated and supplemented content of publication International Chart Series - INT1 - Symbols Abbreviations Terms Used on Charts published by International Hydrographic Organization in Monaco.

Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia is planning to print city map of Split in scale 1:15 000 (A0 format) and publication Peljar za male brodove (A4 format, about 400 pages) till september 2002.

Vesna Posloncec-Petric, BSc, will defend her master thesis A comparison of software packages for automatic hill shading on 19 June 2002 at Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb.

Ivana Racetin, BSc, will defend her master thesis Terminology of Modern Maritime Cartography on 13 June 2002 at Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb.

24 May 2002. The lectures from Cartographic Heritage (Kartografsko nasljede) now can be taken at a postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Geodesy, Zagreb. The professor is Miljenko Lapaine, PhD.

13th conference of the Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER (European Mapcurator's Group) will take place from 3-7 September 2002 at Helsinki University Library, Finland.

The final invitation can be located through the group's website on
http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/ intro.htm or directly on
http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/1 3th.htm

9 May 2002. During the Week of Archive the map exhibition "Old maps of Island Cres" is reopened. The exhibition can be visited in State Archive in Rijeka, Nikola Host Park 2, from 8 am to 4 pm. Exhibition will be closed on May 25, 2002. The exhibition catalogue can be bought at a special price of 50 KN.

8 May 2002. Promotion of the book "Katastar Istre 1817-1960" ("Cadastre of Istria 1817-1960") was held in State Archive in Pazin as a part of the Week of Archive. The book includes history of cadastre in Istria and list of materials that all institutions hold with index of toponims in two languages. The book can be bought in Croatian State Archive in Zagreb. Price is 100 KN.