The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) announces AutoCarto 2014, an international research symposium on cartography, geospatial science, and visualization. The twentieth in the AutoCarto series, the symposium will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 5-7, 2014.
Commission on Map Projections
Meeting on Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 10:00 am
Pittsburgh Marriott City Center Hotel (Salon 4), 112 Washington Place,
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Agenda
- Welcome and short introduction – M. Lapaine
- Report of the Commission chair – M. Lapaine
- Status of the book Choosing a Map Projection – M. Lapaine
- Map projection of Mappa Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci – M. Lapaine
- Aspect-adaptive Cylindrical Projection – B. Šavrič
- Visualization of distribution of distortions in cylindrical map projections – M. Lapaine
- The Real-time Projection of Video and Raster Data for Web Maps – B. Šavrič
- Map projections using parallel and supercomputers – E. Lynn Usery
- pRasterBlaster – a parallel implementation for map projection – Mike Finn