We call for papers for the 19th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2025), which will take place in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland on May 7-9, 2025.

We call for participants for the workshop entitled Mapping Future Courses: Bridging Old and New in Cartographic Education for Europe, organized by the ICA Commission on Education and Training, the ICA WG on Cartographic Body of Knowledge, and the ICA Commission on Digital Transformation of National Mapping Agencies.

We invite you to participate in a pre-conference workshop on MapGEN, which will take place on December 8th in conjunction with AsiaCarto 2024. If you are interested in attending, please contact me via email at binjiang@hkust-gz.edu.cn.

Activities prior to the commission:

We call for papers for the International Symposium on Location-Based Big Data and GeoAI 2023 (LocBigDataAI 2023)

We call for papers on geospatial big data and AI/deep learning for the sustainable planet as a special issue of international journal Remote Sensing.

The final seminar of the project “Advanced Technology for National Map Updating” on December 15, 2022.

We conducted the AutoCarto 2022 Workshop on Living Structure as a Scientific Foundation of Maps and Mapping on November 1st, 2022 and it attracted over 20 participants from all over the world.

The webinar on AI or deep learning for Topographic Mapping taken place on (August 31, 2021), and it introduces the new technology and its application to cartographic labeling and hydrographic mapping.

We delivered a presentation entitled Living structure as a theoretical foundation for teaching and learning cartography to the online workshop “Challenges and Opportunities of Cartography and GIS Education: in the Classroom and in the Cloud” on October 28, 2021, organized by the ICA Commission on Education and Training.