Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry & Society News Archive
The BCS Awards are open for 2008
The British Cartographic Society (BCS) recently revamped the Awards scheme to encourage entrants from all disciplines in cartography, and to showcase products created through traditional or new, even experimental, techniques. The BCS aims to help promote the best of cartographic products and highlight good cartographic design in the UK and abroad.
As part of the changes, two awards were added to the programme to assist in covering all disciplines. Firstly, The Stanfords Award for printed mapping is designed to encourage any printed products to enter, from coffee table atlases to wallpaper or maps featured in leaflets and topical articles.
The Avenza Award for electronic mapping was also added to allow digital products such as interactive and web maps to also compete. Entries can include power-point presentations, interactive CD-ROMS, or websites.
These two awards join the established John C Bartholomew Award for Small Scale Mapping and the Ordnance Survey MasterMap Award for Better Mapping.
Not only will the winners of these awards receive a crystal trophy and certificate, but they also go head-to-head with each other to receive the prestigious honour of being crowned the Best Mapping entry and presented with The BCS Award. (Closing date for all the above entries is 30th May 2008)
We are delighted to announce the introduction of a new award for UK children, to run in alternate years to the ICA Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition. The UKHO Junior Mapmaker Award is designed to encourage map making in children aged 7 – 16. (Closing date is Saturday 19th July 2008)
We also continue to support the NGS New Mapmaker Award in conjunction with The National Geographic Society (same closing date), and The Henry Johns Award for the best Cartographic Journal article sponsored by Lovell Johns.
If you would like to enter any of these awards, entry forms are available on the BCS website http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=727
Information about the winners from 2007 is also available on the website http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=579
