This is the final program – however, smaller changes are still possible.
You will receive a printed program on-site.
Program structure
Sunday, September 8
On Sunday our workshops take place – please find the full list of workshops here.
Opening Ceremony
Keynote by Lorenz Hurni, ETH Zürich
Ice Breaker
Monday, September 9
Design 1
Developing a conceptual framework for usability evaluation of cartographic design principles in Mixed Reality applications
Space as a Metaphor – Design Guidelines and Evaluation of Map Imitation
Democratising nations by area through small multiples
Beethoven in Wien
Eight Stories High, Comically Lo-Res, Visible for Twenty Miles: Spiraling Maps Atop Salesforce Tower
Mini-map design as a cartographic element of the user interface – based on video games
Sustainability and Cartography
Cartographic visualization of the effects of climate change: a practical application for the Atlas of Switzerland
Mapping for Sustainable Development: Comparing different techniques for mapping and monitoring mangroves in Aruba
From Leaves to Forests: How to Map Stress in Plants due to Climate Change
What’s geographical names got to do with Climate Action?
Drought, Heatwaves, and Fire Weather and its Cartographic Visualization
Sponsor presentation by Esri
Geovisualization 1
Web-based visualization of static and dynamic HD map layers
User preferences for 2D markings of public buildings in immersive 3D geovisualizations
Mapping the X-Minute City: Visualizing how different types of residents interact with their “15-Minute Cities”
Towards Mapping Place Semantics: A Geosocial Media Data Approach for Geo-Semantic Analysis and Place Similarity Computation
Selected research issues in geovisualization of building interiors for the LBS
Near Real-Time Mapping to Estimate Snow Cover Fraction Area
CartoAI 1
Deep Generation of Synthetic Training Data for the Automated Extraction of Semantic Knowledge from Historical Maps
Using AI to Generate Accessibility Descriptions for Maps
Spatio-Temporal Vertical Federated Learning to Overcome Data Sharing Limitations
Enriching river network data for multi-scale machine learning based selection: a case study of Poland and France
Deep learning for map generalization: Experimenting with coastline data at different map scales
Approaching geospatial trustworthiness with graph algorithms and maps
Map Use 1
A new graph-based metric for modeling aggregated gaze behavior differences during map reading
Tailoring Base Maps: A Study on Air Quality Maps
Evaluation of the Encoding of Quantitative Data in Multi-temporal Maps Based on Spatial Unit Sizes
A Story of Space and Sound – Affordance of Sound in Cartographic Storytelling
Comparison of spatial orientation using topographic map and orthophotomap in a virtual environment representing urban space
Exploring Methods for Revealing the Cognitive Structures of Map Information Extraction
Generalisation
Focusing on individual buildings within urban contexts through generalisation levels: an interdisciplinary approach to the visualization of 3D-city models
Strategies for pan-scalar map generalisation
The use of graph convolutional networks in road selection for small-scale maps design
Exploring new ways to zoom in maps
Vectorization of watercourse detection from neural network
Efficient operator annotation for deep learning in cartographic building generalization
Education 1
A sketch map tool for geography education
A Design Challenge for Enhancing Cartographic Research, Education & Outreach
Some reflections on ethics in the Brazilian cartography and its consequences in socioenvironmental problems
Thematic Mapping Practice and Explanation (THEMPE) as an Open Educational Resource for Classroom Teaching
Detecting differences between the map reading strategies of novice and expert students of geography: A pilot study
Critical 21st century cartography education: an assessment of existing course and curricula materials
Atlas
Issues faced when developing an atlas for both paper and online
Online Statistical Thematic Atlas
A new integrated cartographic visualisation framework at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Atlas cartography in Georgia
Migrating the Atlas of Switzerland to the Web: A comparative analysis of 2D and 3D open-source web rendering frameworks
Rethinking school atlases with the AtlaSH
Towards an ICA Code of Conduct
IMIA Members Reception sponsored by freytag & berndt (invitation only)
Poster Session 1
Crime regions in Lithuanian major cities and their suburbs
3D printing indoor evacuation plans for visually impaired people
Geospatial analysis of land use and cover changes in the Ilo-Moquegua watershed
Map of Darkness: How Nighttime Lights Trace the Impact of War in Ukraine
Automated roof generation for the city of Olomouc using ArcGIS CityEngine
Critical spots in undergraduate cartographic education: analysis of final tests and oral examinations
Contribution of high resolution’s satellite images (sentinel 2) to the modeling of bush fire regimes in an area with fragile ecology: case of the Sudanian savannahs of North Cameroon.
Analysis of watercourses on Aretin’s map of the Bohemian Kingdom from 1619
Karst relief geospatial analysis (Georgia, Chiatura Municipality)
Compilation/update of state geological maps in Georgia
Tuesday, September 10
Map Use 2
Measurement of spectral reflectance of map image
What do childrens’ maps tell us – topical messages of 2005–2021
Graphical similarity of cartographic symbols in a map-based search task
Preferred cartographic representation for tourist information
Recording the Use of Interactive Web Maps with ZoomTracker
Designing Mobile-Optimized Cartograms
Cartography in Disaster Management
Analysis of land degradation possesses and forest fires impact with satellite data in semi-arid lands in Algeria
Colour design for crisis maps
Global Earthquake Atlas. Investigating information design strategies to visualise earthquake data: a didactical perspective.
Towards an automatic UAS-based mapping tool for first responders: Defibrillator Missions in Alpine Regions
Tri-Space Modeling and Visualization: Concept, Implementation, and a Case Study in Wildfire Recovery
Hazardous Waste Litigation and Mapping: A template for designing maps of climate change attribution
Analysis 1
POI VizNet: New QGIS tool to construct visibility networks in cities
Spatial distribution of cemeteries in Lithuania
Comparative Study of Polish and Czech Cross Country Movement Models
Monitoring and interactive mapping of illegal environmental activities on the example of Slovakia
Automated system of generating military maps of passability
Interactive visualizations for assessing car-to-bicycle overtaking manoeuvres
Sponsor presentation by the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying – BEV
Thematic Cartography
Cartographic Visualisation of the Territorial Attractiveness
Alternatives for visualisation of frontiers: fluid regionalisation
Automated polygon schematization for thematic maps: an integrative review
Future opportunities for mobile thematic map design in data journalism
Cartographic generalization for multi-scale thematic maps
Assessing the suitability of data classification methods for choropleth maps depicting population demand in South Africa
CartoAI 2
Exploring challenges of Large Language Models in estimating the distance
An AI-Based Approach To Identify Spatio-Temporal Contribution Patterns And Their Impact On Openstreetmap Data Quality
Grammar To Graph, An Approach for Semantic Transformation of Annotations to Triples
Simplification and aggregation of vector building footprints using deep learning models
Inferring users’ tasks on maps based on eye movement and EEG data
PictoAI: Increasing the Meaningfulness of Cartographic Pictograms Using Artificial Intelligence?
History
Mosaics within Mosaics: The Anatomy of Portolan Atlases
Application of relational analysis in the historiography of cartography – case study of Polish Cartographical Review bibliography
Navigating through History: Development of Units of Length in Nautical Charts Depicting the Adriatic Sea, ca. 1270–1824
Cartographic sources in the immersive geovisualization of a medieval stronghold
VGI and Cartography
Open-source tools and Open Science practices inspiring co-creation of geospatial data infrastructures – reflections from Finland and Tanzania
A breakdown of subjective reactions in geo-social media and a review of their cartographic visualisation
Insights from a Decade of Participatory Mapping: Case study of EmotionalMaps project
OpenStreetMap data quality assessment according to ISO 19157-1:2023 for Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Using open and collaborative data to improve the Brazilian topographic mapping in protected areas
Fill the map: Integrating objective data and citizen knowledge for Participatory Urban Planning
Cognitive Cartography
Cognition and Perception of Map Projections: A Literature Review
Perceptual Distortions in Cartography: Maps for Trickery
Perceiving Dark Mode Colour Schemes in Choropleth Maps
Specifics and possibilities of cartography for festival events on the example of Anifilm Liberec, Czech Republic
A virtual environment designed for testing location-based services based on navigation simulation in the digital twin
Enclaves and exclaves in tilemaps
Applications 1
Integration Between 3D Spatial Planning and 3D Land Administration for Sustainable Development
Using Field Maps to monitor environmental and social impacts on Morava Corridor motorway construction in Serbia
Communication via maps in the field of radiation protection: effects of visualized information on risk perception, risk understanding and intended protective behaviours
Diversity of dialect maps
Development of a web-mapping application for storytelling with animations and guided interactions
A review of general perspective projections onto a cylinder
Location Based Services 1
Optimising mobile map reading: An adaptive map approach in response to dynamic pedestrian context
Spatial knowledge acquisition in mobile map-assisted navigation: a real-world longitudinal study
Scanning indoor environments with Microsoft HoloLens 2 for interactive generation of floor plans
Temporal Navigation for Festival Maps on Mobile Devices
Eyes on the Street, Mind on the Ride: Decoding Stress in Active Mobility
Web Cartography
A Second Look at Label Density in Large-Scale Online Maps
The third dimension in web maps – experience based on a vector tiles service for the state of Bavaria
Benefits and challenges in cross media map production
Data Access Platform for Marine and Freshwater Applications
“Base Map” – a new vector tiles-based map for mobile applications
Accessibility approaches for thematic web maps
Geovisualization 2
Automatically generating virtual tours based on large datasets of 360° imagery
OD-Vis: a Map-based Dashboard for Insight Discovery of OD Data
Interactive 2D Visualizations of Olomouc’s Development as Tools for Revitalizing Cultural Heritage
Influence of cartographic training on color scale usability
The Impact of Maps on Climate Information Communication: An Empirical User Study on Social Media Credibility
A map alone or with a company? User study on redundancy in maps and other forms of data visualization
Gala Dinner at Badeschiff Wien, Franz-Josefs-Kai 4 (Donaukanal), 1010 Wien
Poster Session 2
Prague Squared
Using AR visual positioning system to visualise an extinct village Zhůří
Evaluative Mapping and Geospatial Analysis of Georgian Viticulture
Spatial analysis of drug offences and their use registered by the Lithuanian Police in Vilnius City Municipality in 2015-2022
Investigating the Importance of Digital Surface Models for Building Segmentation with Deep Learning
Historical, legal and cartographic analysis of the formation of the Georgia-Azerbaijan state border (on the example of the David Gareji monastery complex and its surrounding area)
Cartographic Aspects of Landslide and Mudflow Hazard Assessment in Kakheti Region (Georgia)
Atlas GeoInformation System and Model. Introduction
The design of a Location-based mobile service with augmented reality to capture perceptions of coloured photovoltaic scenarios in rural and urban environments
Insights at a Glance: Unravelling Spatial Trends with Bivariate Choropleth Mapping
Topographic Thesaurus of the BEV
Wednesday, September 11
Location Based Services 2
Exploring the potential of NLP technology to generate textual descriptions of space for indoor navigation applications
Landmark-Based Indoor Navigation Model through Human Route Descriptions
Supporting Spatial Learning with the Indoor Sign InteGrated Navigation System
Gathering a multicultural ontology of outdoor and hiking landmarks from direct terrain observations and sketch maps
Effects of Human Mobility on the Spread of Disease-Transmitting Mosquitoes in Spain: Insights from Mobile Phone Data
Spatial Analysis of Social Networks in Urban Environments: Integrating Big Data and Cartographic Techniques for Understanding Mobility Patterns
Geovisualization 3
Utilizing geospatial operations to drive visualization in AR and VR applications
Animated interactive 3D cartography in VR applications
Integrating metro passenger flow data to improve the classification of urban functional regions using a heterogeneous graph neural network
Learning Building Floor Numbers from Crowdsourced Street- view Images
Leveraging machine learning and spectroscopic techniques towards estimating paper map scale levels
Toponomy and Topography
Making the World a Better Place: Map by Map, Toponym by Toponym
The OpenGazetteer of Open Maps for Europe and Minority Toponyms
Austrian vecMap – Vector Tiles for the Austrian Map Online
Automatic digital rock drawing using a “ladder style” representation
Multi-directional Analytical Hill-Shading for Enhanced Cartographic Relief Presentation
Changes in the extent of a glacier based on topographic maps and satellite images – possibilities and limitations on the example of the de Ferpecle glacier
Education 2
Reflections of Global Crises in Childrens’ Maps of 2019–2023: Lithuania And Hungary
Reflections on Penn State’s Embedded Geovisual Analytics Course: Travels to the European Union
Mapping as a Medium and Tool for Spatial Education. An Examination with Visual Methods
Eye-Tracking in Education. Understanding Map Skills and their Development
A pilot study of adapting, validating and further developing a map skills model to improve the teaching and learning of map reading at primary and secondary school level
Art, Design and Cartography
The shining: sun, moon, and snowflakes
Mapping Speed
Materiality in Cartography, A First Attempt to Evaluate its Usefulness
Browsing Map Browsers
Building Facade Colors for Urban Navigation
Leveraging a Living Atlas of the World
Analysis 2
A Coastal Asset Risk Index (CARI) based on multi-criteria spatial analysis: New Zealand pilot study
Objective and Subjective Approaches in Mapping Happiness using SDG data and Gross National Happiness Index (GNHI)
Large-Scale Phenomena and Small-Scale Heterogeneous Data: Cartographic Challenges in a Cross-Border Comparison of Healthcare Systems
Enhancing Quality Control Standards for Armenia’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure: A Python-based Approach with Emphasis on Road Spatial Data Layers
Geospatial Metaphors in the Communication of Climate Change-Related Flooding Uncertainty
OSM positional accuracy assessment and visualization for different user needs
CartoTheory
The Atlas of Cartography: An Attempt to Spatialize Map Conceptions
Mapping rights done right? – An interactive web tool with user at its heart
Critical Spatial Information Practices: A New Direction for Cartographic Scholarship?
Do road maps have ethics?
Storytelling with Satellites: A Preliminary User Study of Satellite Data in the News
Professional Codes of Ethics for Organizations
Atlas 2
Presentation of the book “Population, Human Settlements and Society” of the National Atlas of Spain. Updates and new applied approaches.
Charting the Role of the Times Atlas in the Evolution of Trustworthy Cartography
The 1:10.000.000 scale global base of the National Atlas of Spain
Unusual geography in The Atlas of Unusual Borders and The Atlas of Microstates books
Perfect Extremes: Mapping the Global Interplay of Droughts and Floods in a Changing Climate
Spatial knowledge in encyclopedias and atlases – structural commonalities and differences in the production of space
Applications 2
Experiences using maps and story maps in the BIO-MAPS project (Online Map Library of European writers and poets)
Wemap element adaptive layout that integrates knowledge-driven and data-driven approaches
Cartography in cyberethnography (on the example of indigenous peoples of Russia)
Human Machine Interface Design for Robotized Road Works in InfraROB project
Revolutionizing Marine Litter Spatiotemporal Mapping combining UAV – Citizen Science & Machine Learning
Conceptual system of metacartography: the novelty of the Georgian scientific cartographic school in the theory of cartography
Closing & Best Paper Awards
Farewell drinks
Poster Session 3
A Spatio-Temporal mapping of residential solar photovoltaic diffusion in Luxembourg (2017-2023)
HexDTM – A method of thinning LiDAR point clouds using cartographic thematic data classification
GIS-based management of a campus tree inventory for assessing optimal shade tree locations: a case study of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Emotional maps: visualization of participatory mapping data based on user-testing
A New Spatiotemporal Pattern Mining to Explore Earthquake Dynamics
Empowering Vulnerable Regions through Accessible Disaster Mapping: Developing User-Friendly Platforms for Underdeveloped Regions and Non-Specialists
Critical mapping: Rote Wien, an X-RAY of Vienna’s social housing