First Call for Papers/Posters
The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) is hosting a research symposium on cartography in the 21st century. With the advent of these technologies cartography has changed again and new research is underway to develop maps, geospatial data, and geographic databases for the 21st century.

CaGIS invites cartographers, geographers, geo-geeks, and other scientists conducting research on the cutting edge of the new geospatial web and Internet cartography to submit abstracts for AUTO-CARTO 2006 to be held in conjunction with the UCGIS 2006 Summer Assembly at the Heathman Lodge, Vancouver, Washington June 26-28, 2006. Join us at the conference exploring exciting new research in cartography and geographic information science (GI Science).

Topics Include:

• The Geospatial Web & Interactive Mapping
• Mobile Mapping and GIS / for Location-Based Services
• Ubiquitous Mapping
• Open Source in Geospatial Science
• GoogleEarth and its applications; Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps
• Spatio-temporal GIS & Dynamic Maps
• Homeland Security, The National Map, Geospatial One Stop
• National and Regional Atlases
• Geovisualization
• Geovirtual Environments
• Geospatial Data Models
• Geospatial Data Integration
• Spatial Data Mining
• Map Use and Design
• Spatial Cognition
• Projection and Transformation of Geographic Databases
• Spatialization
• Geographic and Cartographic Standards
• History Digital Cartography and GIScience
• Geographic Information Technologies, Governance, and Administration

Before the Conference:
Three International Cartographic Association Commissions meetings will be held on the 26th of June at the some location:

• Commission on Generalization
• Commission on Map Projections
• Commission on Visualization

Paper Submissions
Abstracts of 250 to 500 words are due in pdf or Word format by January 15, 2006. Final papers are due by April 1, 2006. A subset of the papers may be selected for peer review and publication as a special issue of the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

Poster Submissions
Abstracts of 250 to 500 words are due in pdf or Word format by March 1, 2006 Final Poster are due at the time of the symposium. Final poster submitted in pdf format may be published on the CaGIS website following the symposium.

Internet Poster Submissions
Abstract of 250 to 500 words are due in pdf or Word format by March 1, 2006. Final Internet Posters are due at the time of the symposium. Presenters must provide their own computer with wireless network capabilities during the Poster Session. Presenters can bring a video projector if they choose.

Submit all papers and posters to info@autocarto.org

See http://autocarto2006.org/guidelines.htm for formatting guidelines.