Loading…
NACIS 2015 has ended
Welcome to NACIS 2015 in Minneapolis! This is the annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). The theme for this year’s meeting is Mapping Interactions. See the schedule below and go to the NACIS website for more details.

The North American Cartographic Information Society, founded in 1980, is an organization comprised of specialists from private, academic, and government organizations whose common interest lies in facilitating communication in the map information community.

For those of you who were unable to attend the conference, or who couldn’t clone themselves to be at multiple talks at once, many slides are linked in the session descriptions below. Twin Cities local Kitty Hurley also put together this fantastic document summarizing much of what she saw at the meeting, so if slide decks aren’t linked, check out her notes. 
avatar for Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther

University of California, Santa Cruz
Associate Professor
San Francisco
Your community seems excellent. Would love to hear about maps in all their diversity. I am a philosopher of science, and philosopher of biology who has always been interested in maps, and started reading intensely about cartography about 5 years ago. Maps are beautiful in themselves, and "the map analogy" that scientific theories are like maps of the world is incredibly widespread in philosophy of science, and in the humanities in general. University of Chicago will publish my forthcoming book (/When Maps Become the World/) on this topic. Looking forward to the conference!