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Student Map Competitions
Humboldt State University
HSU - Geography Deptartment
HSU - NRPI Department
HSU - Art Department
Professional Organizations
Email Lists
Company Info
Student Map Competitions
Annual Map Design Competition, CaGIS, ACSM
Cartography and Geographic Information Society, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.
every December every March
$200 award http://www.survmap/memorg39/cagis06/cagis05.htm National Geography Award in Cartography
Through the Cartography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.
every Febuary at the AAG meetings, every March/April
$1200 + atlas http://www.
Student Map Competion, APCG
The Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
September at the APCG meeting in September
three $100 awards http://www.
NACIS Student Web Map Contest
The North American Cartographic Information Society
every September at the anual NACIS meeting in October
two $500 awards http://www.nacis.org
Geography Deptartment
Humboldt State offers a geography program that is nationally renowned for innovative teaching, hands-on learning, travel study experiences, and access to the latest technology.
Kosmos Lab
Kosmos is the Department of Geography's 15-seat teaching lab. It was designed to support Geography's cartography courses, integrate mapping and web applications throughout the geography curriculum, complement existing HSU remote sensing and GIS labs, and link geography majors with students from other departments sharing an interest in mapping with a strong design component.
Geography Society
Baggle table sign-up, ski trips, and weekly meeting minutes.
NRPI Department
The Natural Resources Planning & Interpretation Department for the uninitiated. Offers GIS and Remote Sensing cources and degree options.
Spatial Analysis Lab
The HSU Spatial Analysis Lab (SA-Lab) is the home of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing teaching facilities within the College of Natural Resources and Sciences. The SA-Lab is utilized primarily in support of teaching and lab activities associated with courses in GIS and remote sensing.
GIS and Remote Sensing Club
Art Department
Offers graphic design courses useful for advanced cartography studies.
Humboldt State University
Humboldt students come to a friendly, beautiful campus and community set between the redwood forests and Pacific Ocean. Arcata and the surrounding area offer a range of housing and employment opportunities, exceptional outdoor activities, travel options, shops, restaurants, live music, and theatrical performances.
Email Lists
CARTO-SoC
A wide-ranging cartographic discussion group. Topics range from very technical queries to more philosophical debate. Job opportunities are also occasionally posted on this list.
To subscribe: send an email to listproc@sheffield.ac.uk with the message: [ subscribe carto-soc Yourfirstname Yoursecondname ] (eg subscribe carto-soc Joe Bloggs).
MapHistory
Provides an ongoing discusion forum for the history of cartography.
To subscribe: assuming your name is John Smith:
[send to] listproc@camail1.harvard.edu {NB. That is 'camail' followed by 'one'}
[type nothing under 'subject']
[type, in the body of the message] subscribe maphist John SmithMAPublisher
Through the software company Avenza who makes the Illustrator/Freehand plugin by the same name. Focused on the use of that software.
To subscribe: send mail to majordomo@avenza.com with the following in your message body [ subscribe mapublisher-l youremail@yourserver.com ]
MAP-Mac
Through the software company Avenza who makes the Illustrator/Freehand plugin by the same name.
This general purpose list acts as a online user group for software tips and tricks.
To subscribe: send mail to majordomo@avenza.com with the following in your message body [ subscribe map-mac youremail@yourserver.com ]
GIS/EM4
This site offers a compilation of list serves with a GIS, Environmental, and Cartography focus.
Company
Info
Cartography and Design
Adobe
Offers Illustrator (vector) and Photoshop (raster), both used in the Kosmos cartography lab here at HSU.
Avenza
The plugin MapPublisher for using GIS data directly in Adobe Illustrator.
Macromedia
Offers Freehand which is a competing design program to Illustrator. It has more technical options than Illustrator and is often favored in profesional circles.
Mapthematics
Develops and supports Geocart, the map projections program for Apple Macintosh computers.
GIS
ESRI
Earth Systems Research Institute. Makers of ArcView and ArcInfo.
Last updated:
Nov. 2004 by RVN.
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