CaGIS is pleased to announce AutoCarto 2012, an international research symposium on computer-based cartography. The nineteenth in the AutoCarto series, the symposium will be held in Columbus, Ohio on September 16-18, 2012 immediately prior to the GIScience 2012 meeting (also in Columbus). Join us in September 2012 at this exciting conference to explore new research and innovation in cartography and geographic information science.

CaGIS invites cartographers, geographers, geospatial analysts, GIScientists and others conducting research on the cutting edge of the geospatial sciences to submit abstracts on the following topics, among others:Geovisualization

• Geospatial modeling
• Visual analytics
• Web-based cartography
• Information architecture for web mapping
• Data integration
• Mobile mapping and GIS, location-based services, and ubiquitous mapping
• Volunteered geographic information and crowd sourcing
• The geospatial semantic web
• Cartographic and geospatial ontologies
• 3-dimensional mapping
• Geospatial open source, interoperability and source integration
• Generalization
• Spatio-temporal GIS and dynamic maps
• National and regional paper and digital atlases
• Geospatial data models and spatial data mining
• Map use and design
• Spatial cognition and spatialization
• Discrete global grids, coordinate systems for geospatial data, and map projections