CARTOGRAPHY 2000

36th Society of Cartographers Summer School and British Cartographic Society Symposium

To mark the momentous occasion of the new millennium the Society of Cartographers (SoC) decided to join forces with the British Cartographic Society (BCS), in promoting a joint cartographic event to be entitled CARTOGRAPHY 2000. This event combined, for one year only, both the SoC Summer School and the BCS Annual Symposium.

CARTOGRAPHY 2000 was held in Oxford Brookes University from Tuesday 5th September to Friday 8th September, and was promoted and run in a integrated fashion by both societies. A team of SoC Committee members and the BCS Programme Committee collaborated to ensure that the event was suitably memorable as a means of marking the 3rd millennium.

The outline for CARTOGRAPHY 2000 was:

Tuesday 5th September
Session I: Maps of the millenium (inc. Keynote speaker)
Session II: Oxford and its cartographic contribution
Quiz night

Wednesday 6th September
Session III: Freelance cartography (people and producers)
Session IV: Freelance cartography (procedures and products)
Excursions: Oxford's cartographic connections and local tours

Thursday 7th September
Session V: Cartography in local government
Session VI: Education and training in cartography
Session VII: Map curators and archiving: contemporary approaches
Conference dinner

Friday 8th September
Excursion: for map curators and other interested members
Session VIII: New media for cartography: tools, approaches and prospects

In addition, on both Wednesday and Thursday, drop in "surgeries" (on items as diverse as copyright, business practice, law, employment opportunities and software problems), vendor demonstrations and poster sessions were timetabled. The usual SoC and BCS exhibitions and awards were arranged.