CCA2024 – CCA’s Annual Conference and General Meeting
CCA’s Annual Conference and AGM will be held May 23-24 at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Registration and program details will be posted here when available. Please check back.
CCA’s Annual Conference and AGM will be held May 23-24 at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Registration and program details will be posted here when available. Please check back.
Chris Brackley is a freelance cartographer and co-owner of As the Crow Flies cARTography, which he established with his wife Angi Goodkey in 2004.
Since its founding, As the Crow Flies has used the story-telling power of maps to fulfill its mission of reconnecting people with place, engaging in a wide range of projects for a wide range of clients. Through twenty-five years of making maps, Chris’ belief in their power to tell stories has only grown.
Chris’ favourite part of cartographic design is spotting the story once the spatial layers start to dance with each other on the digital page and slowly massaging these layers together until the story pops off the page.
Though I’m sure that there are very few design tricks that haven’t been employed by cartographers over the years, in this talk I’m going to discuss some mapping projects where I’ve had to find novel solutions (new to me anyway). Having been presented with some challenging mapping projects that don’t always have clear pathways from data to final map, I’ve worked to broaden my visualization tool kit to find new ways to tell spatial stories.
In this talk I’m going to focus on three maps. The first is a map of the most recent glaciation of North America, where I worked to find a new way of showing temporal iterations in a single frame. The second is the most recent Giant Floor Map created for Canadian Geographic called Biinaagami, which strives to highlight an Indigenous view of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Watershed within the more Western construct of watersheds, and water flows. The final map is perhaps my most ambitious to date, and shows the world’s oceans through a multi-data lens employing some novel visualization techniques.
Morningside Park, just west of the UT Scarborough campus, is one of Toronto’s sprawling ravine parks, which relieve our otherwise unrelenting grid pattern of streets. It follows the valley of Highland Creek, which provides the bucolic setting which gives UTSC its ambience of “Nature in the city”. Join Helen Mills, the founder of Lost River Walks of Toronto, in exploring the park and how the creek has changed over the years of Scarborough’s rural-urban transformation.
Time (EDT) | Title | Presenter |
2:30 PM |
Lost Rivers Walk of Morningside Park | Helen Mills and members of Lost Rivers of Toronto |
6:30 PM |
Ice Breaker at 1265 Bistro on UTSC campus |
Time (EDT) | Title | Presenter |
9:00 |
Coffee / mingle | |
9:30 |
Keynote | Chris Brackley |
10:30 |
Break | |
10:50 |
What is SUP with Avenza? | Marikka Williams |
11:10 |
From Design to Device: Creating and Sharing Maps with Avenza | Riley Sweeney |
11:30 |
Canada Maps: The Power of Collaboration in Cartography | Jonathan Murphy |
11:50 |
Nautical Geospatial Specialist Certification Scheme | Shelly Leighton |
12:00 |
Lunch | |
13:00 |
Design Challenges in Cartography: A Juxtaposition of Urban and Rural Cartographies | Marikka Williams |
13:20 |
Exploring Social and Political Cartographic Narratives: Eelam Tamils and the State of Sri Lanka | Gayathri Siva |
13:40 |
Mapping access to Toronto’s outdoor skating rinks | Jeff Allen & Teresa Lau |
13:50 |
Accessibility of Healthy Food in Regina, Saskatchewan | Julia Siemer |
14:00 |
Mapping Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe | Jeff Allen |
14:10 |
The Scarborough Greenway: Building an Outstanding Off-road Trail Network | Allison Oki |
14:30 |
Break | |
14:40 |
Panel Discussion |
Time (EDT) | Title | Presenter |
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10:00 |
Mapping German U-boat Logs from WW2 | Paul Heersink |
10:20 |
Administrative Boundaries of Eleventh and Twelfth Century Normandy | Christopher Macdonald Hewitt |
10:40 |
Mapping Giacomo Constantine Beltrami’s 1823 Journey to America | Stephanie Pyne |
11:00 |
Fascist cartography and cubism: the relationship between art and cartography in border analysis | Desiree Di Marco |
11:20 |
Henry W. Castner: CCA founder / logo designer, cartographic visionary | Roger Wheate |
11:40 |
Exploring your Web Scenes in Virtual Reality | Michael Luubert |
11:50 |
Lunch Time (CCA AGM) | |
13:20 |
Panel Discussion | |
14:35 |
Quality Analysis of Euro Regional Map: Uses and Limits of the European Cartographic Database | Amy Andriamasomanana |
14:55 |
A greener La Défense? The challenge of mapping urban nature and its potential in business districts | Mohamed-Jawad Chaïl |
15:15
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Restructuring GIS applications for Heritage Planning: The Key Issue of Data Quality Improvement | Cheick Oumar DIALLO, |
15:35 |
Conference Wrap Up | |
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