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From ICA Map Projections
The International Cartographic Association will conduct its biannual International Cartographic Conference in A Coruña, Spain, from 9 July to 16 July this year. Oral presentations concerning the topic of map projections will be held in two sessions. The Commission on Map Projections will also hold its commission meeting.
Contents
Commission Meeting
Tuesday 12 July, 14:00 - 15:30, Room 1.
Session 1: Map Projection Transformation
Wednesday 13 July, 9:00-10:30 AM, Room 3-2
Presentations:
- MULTI MAP PROJECTION IN MODERN CARTOGRAPHY
- Hossein Helali (Israel)
- Ali A. Alesheikh
- Majid Hamrah
- THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MAP PROJECTION TRANSFORMATION COMPONENT BASED ON COM
- Maojun Huang (China)
- Qingyun Du
- CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION OF COORDINATES IN NIGERIA
- Dr. Matthew E. Ufuah (Nigeria)
- Surv. Joseph G. Adesina
- PECULIARITIES OF THE UTM PROJECTION: CHANGING THE UTM ZONE THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION CHARACTERIZED IN SIGNIFICANT STAGES
- Professor Rafael Ferrer Torío (Spain)
- B. Piña Patón
- J. Sánchez Espeso
- J.M. de Luis Ruiz
- M.L. Ruiz Bedia
- R. Pereda García
- E. Castillo López
- V. Bayarri Cayón
- ON-DEMAND PROJECTING LARGE RASTER DATASETS IN GIS
- Hong Xu (USA)
- Xiuguang Zhou
Session 2: Map Projection Distortion
Wednesday 13 July, 11:00-12:30 AM, Room 3-2
Presentations:
- A NEW APPROACH FOR DESIGNING ORTHOPHANIC WORLD MAPS
- Frank Canters (Belgium)
- Roel Deknopper
- William De Genst
- THE ROLE OF MAP PROJECTION IN COGNITION OF GEOGRAPHIC AREA
- Sarah E. Battersby (USA)
- CONFORMAL PROJECTION WITH MINIMAL DISTORTIONS
- Pawel Pedzich (Poland)
- USING MAP PROJECTIONS WITHOUT CHANGING THE WORLD
- Peter Mekenkamp (The Netherlands)
