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Last call to pre-order your official conference t-shirt! Log into your NACIS account to get yours! 👕 #nacis #maps #cartography #milwaukee #nacis2026
Last call to reserve your room at group rate! Use code G-NACI by September 20 while space remains. Reserve your room today! 👉️ buff.ly/i8RVBN3
Cartographic Perspectives is planning a special issue on Mobile and Responsive Cartography. We are primarily seeking peer-reviewed research articles, narrative case studies, and position papers. More detail in 🧵 below
📆 Don't miss out — pre-order your official conference t-shirt by September 21! Very limited quantities of each size will be available on site in Milwaukee. 👕 Order here 👉️ buff.ly/y8KeWLW #nacis #maps #cartography #milwaukee #nacis2026
Finalizing your plans for #nacis2026? Reserve your room at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee using the code G-NACI to get the group rate. Limited space remains! Reserve your room today! 👉️ buff.ly/i8RVBN3
📣 Submissions for the Map Gallery and Student Print and Dynamic Map Competitions are due today! 📣 We hope to see you in Milwaukee! #nacis2026 #nacis #cartography #maps #community
In the most recent Cartographic Perspectives: "Maker Maps," in which librarians Theresa Quill and Leanne Nay share their experiences using data physicalization and maker literacy to teach spatial concepts. buff.ly/BgydMmb #cartographicperspectives #nacis #maps #cartography
NACIS is still looking for a volunteer Moderator Coordinator for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, WI. If you're interested, reach out to volunteer@nacis.org! NACIS relies on volunteers to keep our much-loved community running, and we hope you can help.
From the latest Cartographic Perspectives: Huntley and Aizman propose “mapping up” as a form of critical cartographic practice, offering both historical examples and modern ones made with their new unknownpleasur R library.
Voting is open for the 2026 NACIS election! Every year, NACIS holds an election to fill vacant Board seats and as usual, we have a slate of highly qualified candidates for you to choose from. If you're an active member of the Society, please cast your vote. 👇️
In addition to the official conference t-shirt (available for pre-order now!) the #nacis Shop will also be offering a variety of additional in-person exclusive merchandise! This includes returning items like stickers and luggage tags, plus new items like zippered tote bags and a map monster pin!
The #nacis2026 keynote panel will celebrate the work and legacy of Karen Wynn Fonstad, including "The Atlas of Middle-Earth for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings". The panel will begin with short presentations from the distinguished guests listed below, followed by a Q&A.
NACIS needs your help! We're looking for volunteers to help out at our annual conference, and beyond. Opportunities range from simple to more involved, and there's something for people at every level of NACIS experience. Here's a thread about ways you can get involved 🧵
Registration is open for the 2026 NACIS Annual Meeting! 📣 Explore the breadth of cartographic insight our attendees plan to share in October in the preliminary program (linked below). We hope to see you in Milwaukee! 🧀 🗺️ #nacis #maps #community #cartography #mapping
New in Cartographic Perspectives: Evangeline McGlynn and Will B. Payne discuss their Relational Reprojection Platform, used to create custom azimuthal reprojections of spatial datasets with non-linear distance transformations. Read their article below 👇️ buff.ly/4rWG6na
It’s finally here! The NACIS Shop is excited to reveal the OFFICIAL design for the #nacis2026 conference t-shirt. These shirts are 100% cotton, printed locally in Milwaukee, and run in sizes S-3XL. Pre-order when registering for the conference to secure yours!
Submissions for the Map Gallery and Student Map Competitions for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Milwaukee are still open! Submit your map(s) by August 31 🗺️ #maps #cartography #nacis #milwaukee #map
The Osher Map Library is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner explores the world as depicted by cartographers and examines why – in an age of GPS – maps are definitely not outdated. 👏
Understanding the world through old maps
The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner…
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From the latest issue of Cartographic Perspectives: "The Map Making Game," in which Mark Denil proposes using psychedelic analysis to explore the nature of maps and cartographic practice. #cartographicperspectives #nacis #maps #cartography
From the latest issue of Cartographic Perspectives: David O'Sullivan and Luke Bergmann walk readers through MapWeaver, a versatile tool for making tiled and woven maps of multivariate data (🔗 in 🧵)
🎉 NACIS 2025 Registration is Open! 🎉 Head over to nacis.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting to register at the member or student rate. Not a member yet? You can join or register as a non-member too! 🕓Early-bird deadline: October 4 🏨Don’t forget to book your hotel too. Our room block fills up fast.
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📢 #NACIS2025 deadline extended to May 31! We're still accepting proposals for the Main Conference, Practical Cartography Day, specialty-themed sessions, discussion panels, workshops, field trips and more. Members, find this and other news in your NACIS News email.
📣 Calling all map enthusiasts! NACIS 2025 regular abstract submissions are due May 15. We encourage everyone to submit by the deadline. Watch for an extension, but don’t wait — get yours in now! Visit nacis.org/annual-meeti... to submit
The 2025 NACIS Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, KY, Oct 15-18! We invite you to submit abstract proposals for presentations in the Main Conference or Practical Cartography Day or to organize specialty themed sessions, discussion panels, workshops and field trips. Submissions due May 15, 2025.
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