Canadian Cartographic Association
Call for Abstracts
Academics, professionals, practitioners, and knowledge holders with a cartography-related focus are invited to submit abstracts or special session proposals. CCA2025 provides various ways to contribute, and we ask that you carefully consider the best form of contribution to the event.
All presenters, whether submitting for an oral presentation or poster, must submit an abstract with a limit of 1800 characters using this Call for Abstracts form.
Abstract requirements:
- Title
- Authors: name, affiliation, e-mail address
- Maximum of five keywords
- A concise description of purpose, methods used, and conclusions
Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee for adherence to submission guidelines and relevance. We will accommodate as many oral and poster presentations as possible, however, please submit as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
The deadline for submissions is March 14, 2025. If you have any questions about your submission or the conference, please contact Thomas Herbreteau, CCA Chair of Geovisualization and Map Design.
CCA2025 Topics
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- cartographic design, tools and techniques
- spatial data collection, management and visualization
- emerging or established mapping platforms and processes
- applications such as health, politics, transportation, land use, demographics, economics, nature, tourism, real-time visualization or other worlds (real and imagined)
- Indigenous and community mapping; critical and historical cartographies
- open source and crowdsourced data and mapping
- global positioning and grid systems
- geospatial data providers and services
- cartographic and geographic information collections
- other aspects of cartography and GIScience.
Formats
Presentation formats:
- Presentation (15 minutes including questions);
- Lightning talk (10 minutes including questions);
- Panel presentation (60 minutes, minimum of 3 panelists plus a moderator);
- Posters / Map Gallery;
- Workshop (60 minutes or more – please contact us to discuss).
Thank you for your interest in presenting. We hope to see you at Carleton University!