The International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Vienna University of Technology are pleased to invite you to the 1st ICA European Symposium on Cartography, which will take place in Vienna on 10–12 November 2015. We aim at bringing together cartographers and those working in related disciplines with the goal of offering a platform of discussion, exchange and stimulation of research and cooperation.

More than 70 oral presentations and 20 posters have been accepted for the symposium. These presentations cover different aspects of modern cartography, such as semiotics and map design, map use and usability, geovisualization and geovisual analytics, generalization and multi-scale representation, cartography and education, geospatial analysis, thematic cartography, atlas cartography, spatial data infrastructure, web cartography and map services, big geo data handling, location-based services and ubiquitous cartography, cartography for disaster management, visualization of statistical data, crowdsourcing and citizen science, and open source geospatial technologies.

Registration for the symposium is available at the symposium website. The deadline for early bird registration is 22 September 2015. For more details regarding the symposium, please check http://eurocarto.org/