Register Now! 45th conference of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), Mon/Tue 22-23 May 2017

Registration is now open for Mastering Maps. This event will be an affordable hands-on and scholarly experience, with one day of practicals and one for presentations/papers, in the CBD and at the University of Melbourne.

Download the programme here

Monday May 22 (AM): Workshop – Mastering Google Earth Pro and old maps ($40)

Monday May 22 (PM): Map Preservation unpacked ($40)

Tuesday May 23: Papers/presentations ($80)

0900-0930 Albertine (Alby) Hamilton & Marika Kocsis, State Library of Victoria
.   Meek’s Atlas: Conservation treatment of an oversized rolled chart

0930-1000 Melinda Clarke, The Melbourne Map
.   Putting Melbourne on the map

1000-1030 George Mifsud, Vicmap
.   40 Years of Victorian Topographic Mapping

1030-1050 MORNING TEA

1050-1120 Caitlin Buckle, UNSW
.   Mapping homes: Using qualitative GIS to explore residential mobility

1120-1150 Dr Niall Johnstone, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
.   Developing an Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation

1150-1220 Dr David Forster, Geological Survey of NSW
.   Statewide mapping of naturally occurring asbestos in NSW

1220-1320 LUNCH

1320-1350 Maggie Patton, State Library of NSW
.   Digitising our map collections – what now?

1350-1420 Dr Elizabeth (Bess) Moylan, TAFE Illawarra, GISP-AP
.   The status of access to regional historical maps: A Wollongong case study

1420-1450 Craig Molyneux, Spatial Vision
.   Abstraction to Reality: The Quest for Realism in Maps

1450-1510 AFTERNOON TEA

1510-1540 A/P Dr Louise Steding, Swinburne Univ. of Tech. ; Stedinger Associates.
.   Tracing Murder

1540-1610 Dr. Robin J. Watt, ANZMAPS
.   A mystery voyage to New Zealand? The mapping of post-Tasman place names coinciding with Maori oral tradition

1610-1640 Dr David Fraser, ANZMAPS & MSIA
.   The History of Map Trade in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania

1640-1700 PACK UP/ BUFFER TIME

1700-1800 ANZMAPS AGM

Please note that each event is separately ticketed – Details and Registration

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