Days: Wednesday, September 9th Thursday, September 10th Friday, September 11th
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| 09:00 | Contextualising map use: linking affordances to human agency PRESENTER: David Fairbairn |
| 09:15 | “If I know what I need” – on the importance of subjective metrics in map user studies PRESENTER: Izabela Gołębiowska |
| 09:30 | Comparing Paper and Digital Atlas Use PRESENTER: Marketa Beitlova |
| 09:45 | The Influence of Narrative Structure on Story Map Engagement, Performance, & Trust: A Preliminary Study PRESENTER: María Caudevilla-Lamban |
| 10:00 | Which map do you prefer and why? A subjective users' multivariate maps evaluation in the empirical study. |
| 10:15 | Understanding USE-IT Map Use through Eye-Tracking PRESENTER: Stanislav Popelka |
| 09:00 | Framing Cartography Codes of Ethics PRESENTER: Aileen Buckley |
| 09:15 | Preserving Changes After Cartographic Generalization: A Framework and Example of Line Simplification |
| 09:30 | Lare Language Model-Based Classification and Mapping of Personality Traits from Geo-Social Media PRESENTER: Dirk Burghardt |
| 09:45 | Automatic Schematization of Transit Networks: An Algorithmic Approach PRESENTER: Florian Hruby |
| 10:00 | Enhancing Automation in Dot Distribution Maps: From Algorithm to User PRESENTER: Natalia Dziuba-Brauner |
| 10:15 | Distilling Institutional Memory: A Human-AI Symbiosis Framework for Cartographic Quality Assurance in UN Peace Operations |
| 11:00 | The Atlas as Stage – Contemporary Atlas Practices and the Reconfiguration of Spatial Knowledge. |
| 11:15 | Atlas Explorer: A Research Tool for Atlas Cartography |
| 11:30 | The New Digital Atlas of Israel: Transitioning from Print to an Interactive National Cartographic Knowledge Hub |
| 11:45 | Visualising Conflict/Peace: Atlas as a format for critical, reflexive and multiperspective (geo)visualisation practices PRESENTER: Mela Zuljevic |
| 12:00 | Three Czech National Atlases: Will There Ever Be a Fourth? |
| 12:15 | Improving the Accessibility of the Swiss Cadastral Web Map Service – a Visualization Redesign PRESENTER: Carolin Bronowicz |
| 11:00 | Find your type: Sparking map-makers' interest in typography PRESENTER: Jakob Listabarth |
| 11:15 | Mapping with a Sense of Place: Methods for Generating Place-Specific Map Colors and Symbols PRESENTER: Shangjing Jiang |
| 11:30 | Cartographic Arc: The Art of Storytelling in Map Design PRESENTER: Clarisse Aubert |
| 11:45 | Map Design: What If Less Isn’t More? PRESENTER: Sacha Schlumpf |
| 12:00 | Maps as Our New Custodian: Navigating Knowledge in Space and Time |
| 12:15 | Accessible Tactile Cartography and Art through Desktop UV Relief Printing PRESENTER: Jan Brus |
MapLogger: A Client-Side Tool for Logging User Interaction in Web Map Usability Studies PRESENTER: Tomas Vanicek |
Cartographic Generalization in the Automated Generation of Multiscale Cartographic Representations of Rock Formations PRESENTER: Günter Kyncl |
Machine Learning-Based Coastline Classification for Semantic Enrichment in Map Generalization PRESENTER: Andriani Skopeliti |
Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Geoportal for Personalized Travel Planning using Map Imitation Techniques PRESENTER: Lesly Bautista |
An Open-Source YOLO & QGIS Workflow for Geospatial Object Detection PRESENTER: Jakub Šperka |
Privacy, Utility, and Trade-off: A Framework for Evaluating Spatial Aggregation in Mobility Flow Visualization PRESENTER: Suphaphong Sirinapaphan |
Automated Extraction and Cartographic Visualisation of Agricultural Machinery Trajectories to Assess Soil Erosion Risks: A Proof-of-Concept Study PRESENTER: Daniel Kašík |
Measuring the Impact of AI Adoption on the Sustainability of OpenStreetMap |
One-Stop and Low-Barrier: A GPT-Powered Crisis Mapping Solution for Emergency Responders PRESENTER: Nianhua Liu |
Design and Evaluation of a 3D Cartographic Prototype for Visualizing Urban Thermal Stress at City-Block Scale PRESENTER: Yi-Ru Liang |
AI-Prompted Workflows for Building Footprint Extraction from LiDAR Data: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional GIS Methods PRESENTER: Renata Ďuračiová |
The Semantic Map Method: Visualizing Spatial Perception PRESENTER: Jan Mikoláš |
Research on cartographic literacy initiated by Ján Pravda based on map reading – background, approaches, and results PRESENTER: Alexandra Benová |
Evolution, Trends, and Challenges of GeoAI in Cartography: A Systematic Review during the period 2000-2024 PRESENTER: Vassilios Krassanakis |
Establishing International Normative Values for Spatial Thinking Skills Across World Cultural Regions: A Multilevel Investigation of Individual and Cultural Factors PRESENTER: Alaattin Arıkan |
| 14:00 | Communicating Uncertainty in Journalistic Maps: Perspectives from a Data Journalism Research Project |
| 14:15 | Towards a Framework for Measuring User Engagement in Geovisualizations Based on Open Data PRESENTER: Andrea Miletić |
| 14:30 | Making vivid maps: expressive geovisualization for representing spatial vulnerability PRESENTER: Zhaoxu Sui |
| 14:45 | Visualization and animation trials of 3D geospatial marine oceanographic datasets PRESENTER: Saana Järvinen |
| 15:00 | Geovisualization of Mobility Patterns using Multisource Data: A Case Study at Envelopa Campus, Olomouc, Czechia PRESENTER: Maria Fedyszyn |
| 14:00 | From User Input to Augmented Tourist Map Design: A User-Centred Workflow PRESENTER: Iva Cibilic |
| 14:05 | Detecting Trade Clusters with TradeNetVis: A User Study PRESENTER: Annika Bonerath |
| 14:10 | Evaluation of automated orienteering map design possibilities for Czechia PRESENTER: Radek Barvir |
| 14:15 | The importance of topographic maps for primary school age groups PRESENTER: Sopio Gorgijanidze |
| 14:20 | Topographic Maps as Risk Interfaces: Visualising Geomorphological Hazards for Outdoor Decision-Making |
| 14:25 | Enhancing Arctic Resilience through Citizen Science and AI-based Mapping for Marine Pollution Control PRESENTER: Apostolos Papakonstantinou |
| 14:30 | How spatial data is used for informed decision making in mountain rescuing? Case study of Polish mountain rescuing organizations PRESENTER: Katarzyna Borczon |
| 14:35 | Rethinking Cartographic Generalization in Mixed Reality for Dynamic Mobility Scenarios PRESENTER: Nianhua Liu |
| 14:40 | Evolution of Soundscape Mapping: Insights from a Bibliometric and Spatio-thematic Analysis (1980–2026) |
| 14:45 | GIS Applications for Military Logistics Planning: Study from Czechia PRESENTER: Filip Dohnal |
| 14:50 | Cartographic Visualization in Sports Broadcasting: Spatial Analysis and Geospatial Insights PRESENTER: Saba Modebadze |
| 14:55 | 3D Reconstruction of the Extinct Vlašim – Dolní Kralovice Railway in Czechia PRESENTER: František Mužík |
| 15:00 | Real-time in-situ biodiversity recording utilizing UAV mapping and web-application synergy PRESENTER: Ermioni Eirini Papadopoulou |
| 15:05 | Some Issues of Mapping Landscape-Geophysical Space- Temporal Characteristics (Geomasses) and Map Analysis PRESENTER: Robert Maghlakelidze |
| 16:00 | «Base Map» - a new vector tiles-based map for mobile applications PRESENTER: Mark Wigley |
| 16:15 | Smartphone holding styles and easy-to-reach zones on mobile map apps PRESENTER: Wojciech Rymarkiewicz |
| 16:30 | GazeDeck: Multi-Glasses Gaze Interactions on Arbitrary Cartographic Surfaces PRESENTER: Michaela Vojtechovska |
| 16:45 | Inconsistent panning and zooming in globe views across leading geospatial services |
| 17:00 | Geospatial Knowledge Organisation of a National Map in AI Driven Ecosystems PRESENTER: Markus Jobst |
| 17:15 | Did You Miss Anything in Your Map? Introducing MapCheck: A Checklist-Based Evaluation Tool PRESENTER: Radek Barvir |
| 16:00 | Take Me Home: How Locomotion Methods in Virtual Reality Affect Path Integration Performance PRESENTER: Denise O'Meara |
| 16:15 | Self-Orientation, Eye Movements, and Wayfinding Efficiency in an Orienteering Simulator PRESENTER: Paweł Cybulski |
| 16:30 | Relationship between different spatial ability questionnaires, spatial orientation, and mental rotation PRESENTER: Annika Korte |
| 16:45 | Usability Evaluation of Interactive Cartographic Visualisations by means of Eye-tracking PRESENTER: Tomas Vanicek |
| 17:00 | Towards Standardization for Mapping Indoor Environment PRESENTER: Dušan Petrovič |
| 17:15 | User testing of reading maps with a dark background PRESENTER: Stanislav Popelka |
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| 09:00 | Mapping uncertainties in the United Nations peace operations |
| 09:15 | Mapping medical infrastructure, mines, and veterans as potential predictors of the worship of Asclepius in Roman Dacia PRESENTER: Lucie Marková |
| 09:30 | Where are the small islands? Raising their visibility through vignettes on global maps PRESENTER: Serena Coetzee |
| 09:45 | Blending with Intent: Color Design for Bivariate Thematic Maps |
| 10:00 | Beyond Winner-Takes-All: Evaluating Grid Cartograms for a More Differentiated Representation of German Election Results PRESENTER: Paula Berenike Mennerich |
| 10:15 | Selection of a Suitable Cartographic Projection for the State Area |
| 09:00 | From 75 Million Images to a Verified Dataset of Statistical Maps: A Multi-Stage Extraction Pipeline Combining Active Learning and Vision Language Models PRESENTER: Marta Solarz |
| 09:15 | Advancing Graph Convolutional Networks to Improve Road Network Selection for Small-Scale Maps PRESENTER: Albert Adolf |
| 09:30 | Research on Natural-Language-Triggered Automatic Generation of Disaster Maps PRESENTER: Yong Wang |
| 09:45 | Information Distortion and Cartographic Quality in AI-Generated Thematic Maps PRESENTER: Kacper Sobczak |
| 10:00 | Automated Mapping of Urban Green Spaces Using Object-Based Image Analysis with Application to European Cities PRESENTER: Rafael Osvald |
| 10:15 | Automated Settlement Label Placement with Contrast and Clutter Optimization PRESENTER: David Šklíba |
| 11:00 | Exploring a blended learning approach with maps for developing sense of place PRESENTER: Serena Coetzee |
| 11:15 | From first encounters to expertise? Pupils’ understanding of contour lines across educational levels PRESENTER: Lenka Krajňáková |
| 11:30 | From Daily Life to the Future: Cultivating Spatial Literacy and Sustainability Awareness through the World Children’s Map Competition |
| 11:45 | Cartography versus Geomatics Education in Switzerland |
| 12:00 | Metrics for evaluating mosaic cartograms PRESENTER: Petra Krsková |
| 12:15 | Towards cartographic xR representation – case topobathymetric hypsometric colouring PRESENTER: Pyry Kettunen |
| 11:00 | Atlas of Switzerland Web: Genesis of a Web Atlas PRESENTER: Luca Gaia |
| 11:15 | Enhancing a Printed Vltava River Atlas with Augmented Reality PRESENTER: František Mužík |
| 11:30 | Who does it belong to? How atlas maps show border changes PRESENTER: Marcin Wereszczyński |
| 11:45 | New printed edition of the National Atlas of Spain: Part VI. Social services and facilities |
| 12:00 | Dynamic Contextualization: Redefining User-Driven Base Map Interaction within the Atlas of Switzerland Web PRESENTER: Christian Wohlert |
| 12:15 | Tactile Atlas of Nigeria: Development of educational cartographic materials about Nigeria for students with visual impairments PRESENTER: Bamidele Oke |
Development of a Regional Atlas Series and Interactive Web Atlas in Georgia PRESENTER: Roman Kumladze |
Interpreting Vineyard Landscape Heritage Through Historical Military Maps and LiDAR Data: The Little Carpathians Case Study (Slovakia) PRESENTER: Šárka Mindova |
Ensemble Machine Learning and Derivative Spectroscopy for Robust Estimation of Plant Physiological Traits in Precision Viticulture PRESENTER: Marco Lutz |
Scrolling Through the Heat: Evaluating User Engagement in an Interactive Map-Based Narrative of Urban Heat Across European Cities PRESENTER: Alikhan Beisenbayev |
Cartographic Representation of African History: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1875-1914 |
Cartographic Image vs. Reality: Spatial Overlay Analysis of Maps Depicting the Czech-German Ethnic Border (1840s–1930s) PRESENTER: Petra Justova |
Heat vulnerability index mapping across spatial scales: effects of data sources and resolution in urban environments PRESENTER: Hana Bobáľová |
Assessment of Water Presence in River Channels Using Airborne LiDAR Data |
From 2D to 3D: Teachers' perspectives on 3D printed models in geography education PRESENTER: Oldřich Mokruša |
Mapping Sustainable Development Goals at the Regional Scale: A Student Perspective PRESENTER: Anna Auermüllerová |
Communication Networks: From Early Modern Moravia to Contemporary Czech Republic PRESENTER: Gabriela Godiskova |
Mapping tourism potential: a GIS based analytical model applied to Aragón, Spain PRESENTER: Maria Caudevilla-Lambán |
When a Historical Map Comes Back to Life: The Janovice Estate (1759) in a Digital Environment PRESENTER: Stanislav Popelka |
Is There Consistency in Visualising Missing Data? A Review of Existing Approaches PRESENTER: Merve Polat Kayali |
Progressive Cartography in Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction (Milan Konecny, LIU Jiping, chairs)
1. Progressive Cartography and New Concept of Digital Earth for EW, DRM, and DRR (Milan Konecny, SCI MUNI, Brno, CZ)
2. Cartographic Support of EW, DRM, and DRR in China (LIU Jiping, CASM, Beijing, China)
3. When Science Meets Disaster (Pavel Spulak, General Directorate of Fire Rescue Service, Czech Republic, Prague)
4. The Shovi Resort Glacial Mudflow and Its GIS Analyses (Robert Maghlakelidze, Dali Nikolaishvili, Giorgi Maghlakelidze).
ICA Commission on Atlases business meeting (Vit Vozenilek, chair)
- Report on recent activities of the Commission
- Outlook and planned activities for 2027
- ICA International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2027 in Warsaw – discussion of the Commission’s planned activities and contributions
- Special Issue of the International Journal of Cartography on Atlases – current status, scope, and further planning
- Further publication projects of the Commission
- Other matters and proposals from Commission members
| 14:00 | Digital twins for understanding territorial dynamics: A case study of the Moria Camp, Lesvos, Greece PRESENTER: Ermioni Eirini Papadopoulou |
| 14:15 | Topographic databases in the creation of immersive geovisualizations for natural heritage sites |
| 14:30 | Indications of (not so clear) Gender Differences in VR-based Urban Fear Spaces PRESENTER: Katrin Reichert |
| 14:45 | Concept of a Geospatial Digital Twin for Crisis Management and Military Applications: Information Scope and Data Modelling |
| 15:00 | Beyond 3D Models: Leveraging multiscale 3D Geovisualization and GeoBIM for Next-Generation PropTech Applications PRESENTER: Apostolos Papakonstantinou |
| 15:15 | Automated 3D Modelling of LoD2 Buildings Based on Data of Aerial Laser Scanning |
| 14:00 | Are We Truly Exploiting the Potential of Geospatial Data? The Case of Territorial Differentiation in Lithuania |
| 14:05 | Statistical Atlas on the Gender Equality Index |
| 14:10 | Map Generalization using Deep Learning and Constraints: Best of both worlds? |
| 14:15 | Automated detection of terrain depressions in spatial data using a contour tree-based approach PRESENTER: Vojtěch Müller |
| 14:20 | An inconsistency detection and processing method for patch boundary under multiple constraints PRESENTER: Hongmei Yin |
| 14:25 | Features of the Armenian National Spatial Data Infrastructure Development PRESENTER: Narek Kroyan |
| 14:30 | Early Lessons from Adapting the Colouring Cities Framework for Graz, Austria PRESENTER: Thibaud Chassin |
| 14:35 | Dynamic Cartography of Terrain Mobility: A GeoAI and Web Mapping Approach to Passability Assessment |
| 14:40 | Automating construction of cartographic ontology for transparent map-making decisions PRESENTER: Xiaolong Wang |
| 14:45 | Geographical Information System of Landscapes of Georgia PRESENTER: Zurab Laoshvili |
| 14:50 | Deterministic Edge Extraction and Generalization for 3D Cartography PRESENTER: Dennis Dvorak |
| 14:55 | Geographic entity matching based on spatial and semantic features PRESENTER: Yao Cheng |
| 15:00 | Geographical and Cartometric Analysis of the State Border in a High-Mountain Region (from a case study of the Georgian-Russian state border – the Abkhazian section of the Caucasus) PRESENTER: Revaz Tolordava |
| 15:05 | Typical Road Network Spatial Structure Recognition and Intelligent Selection Scheme Recommendation Coupling Semantic-Spatial Features PRESENTER: Wenjuan Lu |
| 16:00 | Do bushfire spread prediction maps encourage people to take appropriate protective actions? PRESENTER: Amy Griffin |
| 16:15 | Assessing agricultural landscape diversity between 2022 and 2023 using rectangular and hexagonal grid frameworks PRESENTER: Matej Blazsek |
| 16:30 | Visualizing Animal Movement in Static Maps: A Case Study of White Stork Migration PRESENTER: Ana Kuveždić Divjak |
| 16:45 | Designing Uncertainty Visualization for Noise Map PRESENTER: Zulfa Nuraini Afifah |
| 17:00 | Mapping Early Modern Mobility: From Fragmentary Sources to Spatial Patterns PRESENTER: Josef Műnzberger |
| 17:15 | Visualizing minibus taxi availability in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality PRESENTER: Serena Coetzee |
| 16:00 | The Arctic, a Personal Project or: Lessons and Observations When Working with Content that Continuously Evolves |
| 16:15 | Cartographic Implications of Geometry Choice in Participatory Mapping: A Comparative Study of Two-Wheeled Urban Mobility in Olomouc and Reykjavík PRESENTER: Jiri Panek |
| 16:30 | City center tactile map produced by 3d printing PRESENTER: Dimitra Zacharopoulou |
| 16:45 | Cartographic aspects of processing, visualization and publication of emotional mapping data PRESENTER: Jakub Konicek |
| 17:00 | Meta-Photoatlases as Semiotic Knowledge Models: From Atlasgraphy to Atlas Semiotics PRESENTER: Saba Modebadze |
| 17:15 | From Observation to Participation: Redefining Cartography for Sustainable Development Through a Small Island Workshop PRESENTER: Jan Brus |
We will gather for a festive gala dinner in the abbey’s iconic Rajská zahrada, set within the historic complex associated with Gregor Mendel.
Garden of the Augustinian Abbey (Augustiniánské opatství) Mendlovo náměstí 1a, 603 00 Brno
Please note that the main entrance to the Gala Dinner venue closes at 19:00. After 19:00, please use the secondary entrance next to the Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady.
View this program: with abstractssession overviewtalk overview
| 09:00 | Prompt cartography (or: How I learned a map is only worth 1000 words) |
| 09:15 | Next-Generation Vector Tiles Cartography PRESENTER: Petra Ďuriančíková |
| 09:30 | Redraw the map: a web application for polygon schematization PRESENTER: Jakob Listabarth |
| 09:45 | 3D-Geo-Vis: A Geovisualization Tool for Visual Analysis of Thematic Data in 3D PRESENTER: Jakub Zejdlik |
| 10:00 | Does Your Mapped Variable Add Up? Statistical Guardrails for Web-Based Cartogram Generation PRESENTER: Michael Gastner |
| 10:15 | Maps of European Biodiversity Typology |
| 09:00 | Multicriteria Assessment of Cemeteries as Urban Green Spaces: The Case of Vilnius City Municipality PRESENTER: Augustas Reikertas |
| 09:15 | Geometric comparison of open Microsoft Building Footprints and official data - a case study from Poland. PRESENTER: Krzysztof Pokonieczny |
| 09:30 | Urban Heat Islands in Olomouc: A Geospatial Identification of Thermal Patterns, Urban Structure, and Human Perception PRESENTER: Jakub Koníček |
| 09:45 | Rethinking urban green space accessibility through a GIS-based perspective in Yerevan, Armenia PRESENTER: Artak Piloyan |
| 10:00 | Approximation of the best conformal map projection for the territory of Hungary |
| 10:15 | A Framework for Reconstructing Street Name and Geometry Changes Over Time: The Case of Liberec PRESENTER: Daniel Vrbik |
| 11:00 | 170 years of Cartography at ETH Zurich: the Contributions to Relief Cartography |
| 11:15 | How Portolan Charts Could Have Been Assembled Utilising Cartographic Sources from Classical Antiquity |
| 11:30 | Heaven and Earth – How Early Cartographers Inscribed Terrestrial Routes into the Sky PRESENTER: Kai Helge Wirth |
| 11:45 | Creation and Use of Topographic Maps in Georgia – History and Modernity PRESENTER: Tedo Gorgodze |
| 12:00 | Topographic Cues in Cultural Heritage Exploration: A User-Based Map Study in the Poznań Fortress Area PRESENTER: Jakub Zawadzki |
| 12:15 | Visual semiotics of nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea (13th–19th centuries): encoding power, identity and territory |
| 11:00 | The data context gap in cartography textbooks and handbooks |
| 11:15 | Mapping for inter-species democracy: a perspectivist map of ecological relations PRESENTER: Nicolás Martínez Heredia |
| 11:30 | What Do Experts Trust in Maps? PRESENTER: Evlalia Karagianni |
| 11:45 | How Individual Differences Influence Indoor Emergency Escape Training under 2D Mini-maps and X-ray Visualizations: A Webcam User Study PRESENTER: Nianhua Liu |
| 12:00 | Neural-Based Cartographic Relief Shading for Alberta |
| 12:15 | The concept of spatio-temporal cartography: system, connections, functions |