[Portugal] Please support the International Map Year

[Artur Gil]

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De: Suchith Anand
Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 7 de Janeiro de 2015 21:04
Assunto: Please support the International Map Year

Dear colleagues,

Please support and participate in the International Map Year (IMY)
activities led by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and
supported by the United Nations that will be celebrated worldwide with
the aim to provide opportunities to demonstrate, follow, and get
involved in the art, science and technology of making and using maps
and geographic information.  The most important legacies will be a new
generation of cartographers and geographic information scientists, as
well as an exceptional level of interest and participation from
professionals, schoolchildren, the general public, and
decision-makers, worldwide.


The purpose of International Map Year is to:


*  Make the map more visible to citizens and school children in a
global context;

*  Show how maps and atlases can be used in society;

*  Show how information technology can be used in getting geographic
information and how to produce one’s own maps;

*  Display and show different types of maps and map production;

*  Show the technical development of mapping and atlas production;

*  Show the necessity of a sustainable development of geographic
information infrastructures;

*  Increase the recruitment of students to cartography and
cartography-related disciplines.

To enable this objective , The ICA Commission on Open Source
Geospatial Technologies and "Geo for All" community will strongly
support this initiative of the ICA  by organising training workshops
and events during this year and we welcome ideas for joint
collaborations.

OSGeo Live DVDs http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html   will be given
out at the educational events to enable more students to learn and be
part of the geospatial opportunities for the future.

More details of IMY at http://internationalmapyear.org

Best wishes,

Suchith