EUROCARTO2026: EUROCARTO2026
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, September 9th Thursday, September 10th Friday, September 11th

Wednesday, September 9th

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09:00-10:30 Session 1A: Map Use, Cognition & User Studies
Location: Library Hall
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
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
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
09:00-10:30 Session 1B: GeoAI, Machine Learning & Ethics
Location: F1
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
10:15
Distilling Institutional Memory: A Human-AI Symbiosis Framework for Cartographic Quality Assurance in UN Peace Operations
10:30-11:00Coffee Break (Library)
11:00-12:30 Session 2A: Atlas Cartography
Location: Library Hall
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
11:00-12:30 Session 2B: Cartographic Design
Location: F1
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
12:30-14:00Lunch Break (Library)
13:00-14:00 Session 3A: POSTER SESSION I
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
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
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
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
Evolution, Trends, and Challenges of GeoAI in Cartography: A Systematic Review during the period 2000-2024
Establishing International Normative Values for Spatial Thinking Skills Across World Cultural Regions: A Multilevel Investigation of Individual and Cultural Factors
PRESENTER: Alaattin Arıkan
14:00-15:30 Session 4A: Geovisualization & Visual Analytics
Location: Library Hall
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
14:00-15:30 Session 4B: LIGHTNING TALKS I
Location: F1
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
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
14:30
How spatial data is used for informed decision making in mountain rescuing? Case study of Polish mountain rescuing organizations
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
15:00
Real-time in-situ biodiversity recording utilizing UAV mapping and web-application synergy
15:05
Some Issues of Mapping Landscape-Geophysical Space- Temporal Characteristics (Geomasses) and Map Analysis
15:30-16:00Coffee Break (Library)
16:00-17:30 Session 5A: Interactive Map Interfaces
Location: Library Hall
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
16:30
GazeDeck: Multi-Glasses Gaze Interactions on Arbitrary Cartographic Surfaces
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
16:00-17:30 Session 5B: Spatial Cognition & Navigation
Location: F1
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
Thursday, September 10th

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09:00-10:30 Session 7A: Thematic Mapping
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
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
10:15
Selection of a Suitable Cartographic Projection for the State Area
09:00-10:30 Session 7B: GeoAI & Data-driven Cartography
Location: F1
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
10:30-11:00Coffee Break (Library)
11:00-12:30 Session 8A: Cartography & Education
Location: Library Hall
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
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
11:00-12:30 Session 8B: Atlas Cartography II
Location: F1
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
11:30
Who does it belong to? How atlas maps show border changes
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
12:15
Tactile Atlas of Nigeria: Development of educational cartographic materials about Nigeria for students with visual impairments
PRESENTER: Bamidele Oke
12:30-14:00Lunch Break (Library)
13:00-14:00 Session 9A: POSTER SESSION II
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
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
Mapping Sustainable Development Goals at the Regional Scale: A Student Perspective
Communication Networks: From Early Modern Moravia to Contemporary Czech Republic
Mapping tourism potential: a GIS based analytical model applied to Aragón, Spain
When a Historical Map Comes Back to Life: The Janovice Estate (1759) in a Digital Environment
Is There Consistency in Visualising Missing Data? A Review of Existing Approaches
13:00-14:00 Session 9B: ICA commission on Early Warning & Crisis Management - business meeting

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).

Location: Library Hall
13:00-14:00 Session 9C: ICA commission on Atlases - business meeting

ICA Commission on Atlases business meeting (Vit Vozenilek, chair)

  1. Report on recent activities of the Commission
  2. Outlook and planned activities for 2027
  3. ICA International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2027 in Warsaw – discussion of the Commission’s planned activities and contributions
  4. Special Issue of the International Journal of Cartography on Atlases – current status, scope, and further planning
  5. Further publication projects of the Commission
  6. Other matters and proposals from Commission members
Location: F1
14:00-15:30 Session 10A: 3D Geovisualization
Location: Library Hall
14:00
Digital twins for understanding territorial dynamics: A case study of the Moria Camp, Lesvos, Greece
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
15:15
Automated 3D Modelling of LoD2 Buildings Based on Data of Aerial Laser Scanning
14:00-15:30 Session 10B: LIGHTNING TALKS II
Location: F1
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
15:30-16:00Coffee Break (Library)
16:00-17:30 Session 11A: Mobility Visualization
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
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
16:45
Designing Uncertainty Visualization for Noise Map
17:00
Mapping Early Modern Mobility: From Fragmentary Sources to Spatial Patterns
17:15
Visualizing minibus taxi availability in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
PRESENTER: Serena Coetzee
16:00-17:30 Session 11B: Participatory & Inclusive Mapping
Location: F1
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
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
19:00-23:00 Gala Dinner

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.

Friday, September 11th

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09:00-10:30 Session 14A: Web Cartography
Location: Library Hall
09:00
Prompt cartography (or: How I learned a map is only worth 1000 words)
09:15
Next-Generation Vector Tiles Cartography
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
09:00-10:30 Session 14B: Applied Cartography
Location: F1
09:00
Multicriteria Assessment of Cemeteries as Urban Green Spaces: The Case of Vilnius City Municipality
09:15
Geometric comparison of open Microsoft Building Footprints and official data - a case study from Poland.
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
10:30-11:00Coffee Break (Library)
11:00-12:30 Session 15A: Cartographic Heritage
Location: Library Hall
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
11:00-12:30 Session 15B: Applied Cartography II
Location: F1
11:00
The data context gap in cartography textbooks and handbooks
11:15
Mapping for inter-species democracy: a perspectivist map of ecological relations
11:30
What Do Experts Trust in Maps?
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