Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• Member of the Month:
  Jon Jablonski


• David Cobb is retiring from Harvard.


• Richard Spohn, a past president of WAML, has died.


• Daniel O. Holmes, former librarian and instructor in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed Librarian for the David Rumsey Collection. He can be reached at:
  dholmes@sierranevada.org


• Mary Meader has died: pioneer of aerial photography in the 30's.


• Lisa Sweeney is an LJ Mover & Shaker! Lisa was active in WAML when she was at Rice University.


• John Bartholomew, cartographer, died on January 16, 2008, aged 85.


• Don't forget: WAML has a Jobs Blog!

New Maps of the WAML Region

• February
• March

Articles about Mapping

• Bibliography by Phil Hoehn
  
  
• "David Rumsey Maps Island" is featured in an article about Historical Maps in Second Life. It's in the 2/29/08 issue of Technology Review.

• Coordinates (MAGERT)
  The latest contribution to Coordinates is by David Bosse, "Institutional Map and Atlas Collecting in Eighteenth-Century America."


• NEMO Newsletter


• Cartographic Perspectives (NACIS)


• Australian Map Circle
  Newsletter


• ACMLA Bulletin
  
• CUAC : Cartographic Users Advisory Council


• Scottish Map Forum Newsletter
  

• James Brubaker, who allegedly stole maps from more than 100 libraries, was arrested. There was extensive press coverage:
  
  • Great Falls Tribune
  • Seattle Times
    
  
  
• GODORT (Government Documents Round Table) launches its new Occassional Papers series. Just the place to publish that article about USGS mapping, CUAC, or other topics related to the government and maps.


• Apply to the CSU Long Beach graduate program in Geography by May 23rd. Remember the excellent speakers from this department when WAML met in Long Beach in Spring 1999?


• The International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association announced a new Missing and Stolen Map Database.


• The British Cartographic Society (BCS) launches new website with more features and extended content. New sections include The Gallery and About Cartography which features information on mapmaking and careers in cartography.


• Berkeley/Penn Urban & Environmental Modeler's Datakit is a new web site that consists of a series of viewable and downloadable ESRI shapefiles and grids describing many of the physical, administrative, transportation, demographic, economic, land use and land cover, and environmental characteristics of the 48 contiguous United States.


• Have you seen SlashGeo? You can subscribe to daily email updates that have news of GIS and other cartographic Web 2.0 tools. Recent topics have included:
  • Google 3D Mapping Of Oceans,
  • EarthBrowser 3.0 Released,
  • GRASS GIS 6.3.0 Released and Includes Microsoft Windows Support
  • twittearth: A New Way to visualize Twitter
  • Yahoo! Maps Biggest Imagery Update
  Slashgeo is "community-driven, ad-free and managed by a non-profit organization".


• EastView Cartographic has acquired RMIB. Theresa Cheng is the new academic and public library account representative at East View Cartographic. You can contact her at 952-252-4551 or by email teresa.cheng@cartographic.com


• Take a look at this detailed map highlighting the world's hotspots of emerging infectious diseases. Kathy Stroud pointed this out in a maps-l posting.

• The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) will hold its Summer Assembly from June 23 – 24, 2008 at the Hubert Humphrey Institute inMinneapolis, Minnesota. The deadline for submission of full papers to be considered for travel support is 12:00 midnight EST, May 5, 2008. More...


• ALA Annual Conference will be held in Anaheim June 27 - July 2. Here's the MAGERT schedule.


• The Northeast Map Organization (NEMO) meets June 5-6, 2008 at the Newsbank Conference Center (352 Main Street) in Chester, Vermont for their annual meeting and annual map competition (entry deadline: May 16, 2008).


• The Programme of the Third International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Barcelona 26-27 June 2008, is now available.


• The Call for Papers for the State of the Map 2008 is now open. It's the Second International Open Street Map conference, and will be in Limerick, Ireland, in mid July. OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world.


• If it's summer in San Diego, it must be time for the annual ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC). Online Registration deadline is June 13, 2008.


• 2008 Society for Conservation GIS Annual Conference will be held at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, Callifornia, August 12-15, 2008.


• The National Library of Russia is hosting a meeting on October 23 & 24 in St. Petersburg and the theme is "Access to the Baltic Sea: Maps and Other Information Sources." See the description under Biblioteca Baltica which is an association of national libraries on the Baltic Sea. The conference website is:
  http://www.nlr.ru/tus/20081023/


• Future WAML Meetings:
  • San Diego, October 1-4, 2008
  • Salt Lake City, April 29-May 2, 2009
  • Yosemite, Fall 2009

• News from LC regarding adding geographic coordinates to authority records.
  


• MAGERT's workbook on cataloging rare and antiquarian maps is available for purchase.
  

• News about exciting new map projects in Portland and Utah, reported by Ken Rockwell.

• Check out PLATIAL , a very fun web site. It gives users the ability to create personal maps on the Web. You can create an open map, to which anyone can contribute, or a closed map that includes only places you've added yourself. It's said to run more slowly on Internet Explorer than on Firefox. In true Web 2.0 fashion, you can add other people's places to your own maps, or vice versa. Check out their 2007 awards to see some great maps. Platial's headquarters are in Portland.