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UW geography played a part in creating a special digital issue of Cartographic Perspectives

January 28th 2011
Natural & Physical Sciences
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The second special issue of Catographic Perspectives, guest edited by Tanya Buckingham of the Geography Department and Rob Roth, an incoming faculty member in Fall 2011.
Tanya Buckingham of the UW-Madison Cartography Lab and Rob Roth of the Penn State GeoVISTA Center (and, starting Fall 2011, faculty at the UW-Madison Department of Geography), recently teamed up to guest edit the second special issue of Cartographic Perspectives (CP), the flagship journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS).

The special issue is presented in the context of an exciting transition to modernize CP for primarily digital, online dissemination and to update CP's content to serve more equitably the diverse interests of both researchers and practitioners in the cartographic community. This issue expands upon the new territory explored in the first special digital issue published in 2009, edited by Buckingham.

Multiple UW-Madison Geography and UW Cartography Lab members and alumni provided important contributions to the special issue.

The opening essay by Michael Goodchild, Professor of Geography at UC-Santa Barbara and member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, is followed by an excellent series of articles that includes contributions by current PhD Candidate Tim Wallace and UW Geography & Cart Lab alumni Daniel Huffman (MS '10) and Andy Woodruff (MS '07). The issue also features static and interactive maps from Huffman and G575 students A.D. Riddle and David Parker. The special issue was copyedited by UW alumna Laura McCormick.

Buckingham and Roth also extend their gratitude to all contributors to the special issue, which is available openly from CP's website.

Buckingham is the current President of NACIS while Roth is serving as CP's Assistant Editor.

Cartographic Perspectives considers scholarly and practical manuscripts on all topics cartographic and recently announced a student paper competition with a purse of $1350.