You may have received a shipping notification from our partner Playford Games. Please keep that for your records just in case. We inadvertently triggered some erroneous shipping notices. More than likely you will receive a new tracking number. I'm sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

Thanks again,
Jon Adams

A Quick Update

We cleared customs and the games arrived at our distribution center on Friday!

Birch production is well under way. We are verifying all the little details before assembling and packing the final shipment. This is the very last step and we hope to ship to you very soon. It is my hope that many of you will receive Cartography before Christmas.

Thanks again,
Jon Adams

Birch is beautiful

It's taken far too long but we finally have our birch prototypes.

I don't want to be dramatic but... They Are Beautiful!!!

The engraving is lovely and the tiles interlock perfectly. It's hard to see in these photos but the relief in the the waves is filled with depth and detail.

The birch tiles will come in a similar punch board to the standard game.

The quality of the material is very good.

Stuck in Customs

Our mass production copies are in America but they are stuck in customs. I was hoping they would arrive before Thanksgiving but that hope is slipping. We expect them to clear in the next couple days. It is now my hope that will be able to deliver before Christmas.

If all goes well the birch copies will ship along side the standard games. After many delays I'm so excited to finally see the finish line in site. Thank you so much for your continued support and patients.

Thanks again,
Jon Adams

In my last post I mentioned that we would stop accepting address changes. It was brought to my attention that I had commented on a post that we would notify you before we stopped. To honor that, we will extend the cut off until Monday. If you still need to change your address please let me know before end of day Monday. Thanks again. 

Jon Adams

Dear colleagues and friends,

It is a privilege to serve the ICA as your president for the next four years in our dynamic world where maps play an important role as interface to geo-related information to support decision making in many different situations.

It is obvious I do this not alone. I can and will built on the shoulders of my predecessors. And I do realize it is quite a responsibility because Georg Gartner, the now past-president has left us a healthy association. During his term ICA has been enriched in many ways. Think of our new journal, our embedding in ICSU and relation with UN-GGIM, the GeoforAll initiative and the beautiful website.

Secondly, I will act with an enthusiastic team. The newly elected members of the Executive Committee and the new Commission Chairs will allow me to put new accents.

Especially the newly established Working group Cartography for Global Geographic Information Management can put such accent. With this working group the plan is to provide the UN-GGIM an ‘atlas’ of good cartographic practice for the new sustainable development goals.

Dear all, over the next four year let’s make the world a better place with maps!

Menno-Jan Kraak...

The 16th ICA General Assembly was closed on the last day of ICC2015.
Slides of the agenda can be found here.

The Executive Committee for the term 2015-2019 is:

• President: Menno-Jan Kraak (The Netherlands)
• Secretary-General and Treasurer: László Zentai (Hungary)
• Vice-Presidents:

Sara Fabrikant (Switzerland) David Forrest (United Kingdom) Yaolin Liu (China) Pilar Sanchez-Ortiz (Spain) Monika Sester (Germany) Lynn Usery (USA) Vít Voženílek (Czech Republic)

• Past President: Georg Gartner (Austria)

The 17th General Assembly and the 29th International Cartographic Conference in 2019 will be held in Tokyo, Japan.

All corresponding website subpages (EC, conferences, commissions, working groups) will be updated within the course of next week. Please stay tuned....

Dear collegues and friends of ICA,

ICC2015 brings a change of persons in charge. After four years of being president of ICA this function is passed to Prof Menno-Jan Kraak from the Netherlands according to the General Assembly of ICA.

In this context I would like to express my sincere thanks for all the support and collaboration I was happy to receive from so many of you; for many of the projects, ideas and efforts we have taken. It is because of this, why I consider those four years as most rewarding and successful on a personal level.

I would like to share with you my final report, describing some of the efforts and achievements which have been taken from so many in the term 2011–2015 and I would be happy to receive any comments on that.

It was a privilege to serve the International Cartographic Association as President from 2011 to 2015. I’m looking forward to the future of ICA under the presidency of Menno-Jan Kraak!

...

At ICC2015 in Rio de Janeiro the International Journal of Cartography was officially launched!

In its sixth decade of existence, ICA has now its own outlet for scientific work. Together with Taylor & Francis, the two Editors-in-Chief Anne Ruas and William Cartwright presented the first issue in Rio.

Please check out the first issue, which is available online at tandfonline.com

And: Send us your results, papers and submissions!...

In the ICA Awards Ceremony this morning at ICC2015, the following six awards were presented in recognition of contributions to the ICA. Congratulations to all awardees!

ICA Honorary Fellowship

The ICA Honorary Fellowship is for cartographers of international reputation who have made special contribution to the ICA. It includes a bronze medal.

• David Fairbairn, United Kingdom

Vice-President (2003–2007) Secretary-General (2007–2011) Chairman of the Commission on Education and Training (2012–) Editor of the ICA GIM column

Diplomas for outstanding services to ICA

The Diplomas for outstanding services to ICA are for colleagues who have made special contribution to the ICA as commission officers or conference organizers.

• Vladimir Tikunov, Russia

Chairman of the Commission on Education and Training (1999–2003) Vice-President (2003–2007) Chairman of the Working Group on GI for Sustainability (2007–2011) Chairman of the Commission on GI for Sustainability (2011–2015)

• Elri Liebenberg, South Africa

Vice-President (1999–2003) Chair of the Working Group on the History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2003–2007) Chair of the Commission on the History of Cartography (2007–2015)

• José Jesús Reyes Nuñez, Hungary

Chairman of the Commission on Cartography and Children (2007–2015) Key organizer of the Barbara Petchenik Children’s World Map Drawing Competition from 2007 Chairman of the International Jury (2005, 2007) Co-editor of three of the four books showing selections of map drawings made by children for the Barbara Petchenik Competitions from 2007

• David Fraser, Australia (not present)

Chairman of the Commission on Education and Training (2007–2012) Editor of the eCARTO News (2012–present)

• Corné van Elzakker, The Netherlands

Chairman of the Commission on Use and User Issues (2007–2015) Chairman of the Jury: ICA International Cartographic Exhibition (2007–2013)

Overview of ICA Awards presented at ICC2015

More pictures of the award ceremony and the 2nd day of ICC2015 can be found on the ICA Facebook page....