Geographic education

tanya
As part of the mission of mapgiving we would like to encourage everyone to become involved in geography and cartography. One of our current projects will be promoting the Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Competition. I am the national coordinator of the competition and will be collecting maps throughout the year to submit to the International Cartographic Association in the spring, the conference will be held in Santiago, Chile.

In addition to organizing the national competition, I would like to continue the discussion I began with the Library of Congress for the last competition to create a repository of all of the maps that are submitted from students throughout the United States.

For more information about the competition please contact me: tanmabuck@gmail.com.

Here are the five maps selected from more than 100 submissions for the 2007 competition.

The last one...

Please feel free to download the third map produced during the kick-off event. We will be working with the client to make adjustments over the next couple of weeks.

Asking questions...

It turns out that we have many more questions than answers at this point in the process. How do we start, who do we talk to? We started by contacting a patent lawyer, we will plan to speak with an accountant shortly and we are defining clearly and concisely what mapgiving is and what the mission is. We will share our lessons and bumps in the road as we progress through this process.

One of the print maps...

The larger scale print map can now be downloaded. The map showing the trail extension will be posted after a few tweaks.

I am reminded of how much I love these people...

In the whirlwind of mapgiving, the planning, the production, the enormously excited reception that we had, and then the busy days of the conference following the event, I did not have time to really think about what had happened.

As things begin to settle in Madison, and I return to my daily tasks, I've had some time to process the events of the past week and several months. We have asked the Wayfinders to provide some feedback about their experience and how they see the organization of mapgiving growing and formalizing from this point. We are just beginning to read through these comments, and reliving the event through their words fills my heart. We really have something here and we will spend the next couple of weeks asking questions, and finding answers. The company where I work, XNR Productions, is extremely supportive of this mission and is supporting me in this exploration process. I couldn't be happier to have such a supportive network of people, through NACIS, XNR and the amazing group of people who participated in the kick-off event and those who have expressed interest in furthering the mission of mapgiving. The mission of cartographic and geographic education, collaboration and communication.

Web team map

To see the web team map, visit mapgiving. The print maps will be on display later today.

the Wayfinders speak...

Nick Springer of Springer Cartographics talks of his experience.