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new commission website

http://geoanalytics.net/ica/

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this website will only be updated the deal with the special publication based on our Helsinki 2007 meeting:
From geovisualization toward geovisual analytics
program

Menno-Jan Kraak kraak@itc.nl

The nature of maps and of their use in science and society is in the midst of remarkable change - change that is stimulated by a combination of new scientific and societal needs for georeferenced information and rapidly evolving technologies that can provide that information in innovative ways. A key issue at the heart of this change is the concept of visualization.

Cartography has always been about visualization - in the sense of making aspects of our world visible. Today, building on a centuries long tradition, cartography is an active participant in fostering fundamental changes in the nature of information representation and how it is used in science, education, and society. These changes draw upon and contribute to developments in the relatively new fields of Scientific

Visualization and multimedia and they are directed toward the integration of dynamic representations within the sciences for which georeferenced representations are critical (geography, geology, ecology, hydrology, meteorology, and others). The key objectives of the ICA Commission on Visualization are development of innovative approaches to and applications of dynamic cartographic visualization and the sharing of perspectives on visualization with the wider scientific community.