Talking to Geographers

摘要

Since its foundation in 2007, the ICA Commission on Maps and Society has focused its attention on engaging with geographers and targeting the academic geography community to raise awareness of cartographic issues, both practical and conceptual. The last report from this Commission, carried in the pages of GIM International March 2008, introduced the session on 'subversive cartographies' held at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston in April 2008. The Commission also contributed, in August 2008, to the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers annual conference in London. There were three well-attended sessions: a conference session on 'Maps as Method', a high-profile evening plenary discussion on the 'Future of the Map', and a rolling PowerPoint presentation on 'Maps that Matter'.