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Fig. 1.1 Participants in the workshop on cartography, Tehran, Iran, May 2009 (Photograph
courtesy ICA Commission on Education and Training)
including such topics as basic tools, design questions, interactive functions and
using map server technology.
In July/August 2010 the ICA Commission on Education and Training ran
training courses in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshops
were conducted to facilitate technology transfer. The Ho Chi Minh City Workshop,
19-23 July 2010, covered Cartographic Information Systems (GIS with a carto-
graphic emphasis), Internet Mapping, Atlas production, Prepress and Digital Print-
ing. The second week of the course, which addressed Web Cartography and its
applications. It covered the topics of Web mapping, Web 2.0 and the design and
production of map mash-ups (Fig.
1.2
).
The second workshops were held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the first week the
topics covered were Map projections, Map design/Cartography design, Cartogra-
phy theory (Map Evaluation), Atlas cartography, Toponymy, Map production using
GIS, Prepress design and layout using GIS, Computer assisted cartography using
ArcGIS and 3D GIS. In week 2 a program on Web cartography was conducted
(Fig.
1.3
).
The ICA Commission on Management and Economics of Map Production has
regularly organised workshops in Urumchi and at the Intercarto Conference and an
ICA-sponsored workshop in Gent in 2009.
Through their input in the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical
Names, ICA cartographers have regularly participated in the toponymy course
programme of UNGEGN. Courses have been held in Khartoum (2003), Bathurst
(2004), Maputo (2004 and 2006), Malang (2005), Tunis (2007), Ouagadougou
(2008), Vienna (2008), Timi¸oara (2008), and Nairobi (2009). The major item in
these courses is the conveyance of
the awareness of
the importance of
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