Thank you to our sponsors @LovellJohns and our judging panel from The Cartographic Journal.
The most outstanding article award goes to Jochen Schiewe.
Don’t forget that members can read this and all articles from The Journal online!
#awards #carto2025
Thank you to all our members who entered and voted for the BCS Peter Jolly Award - here is your winner!
Congratulations Alikhan Beisenbayev for your map The Silk Road Through the Centuries.
#awards #carto2025
Fun for me. Hope it was for the audience. There were a few important points made amongst the shenanigans too #carto2025
Our final session was a panel discussion on the future of geospatial visualisation with host David Sherran, BCS President Paul Naylor and guests Julian Williams, Helen McKenzie and Leanne Hughes.
A thought provoking end to two great days.
#carto2025 #maps #future #edinburgh2026 !
Our final talk slot of the day was handed to the entertaining Ken Field who bought us maps, music and a tour around his beloved hometown of Nottingham.
At least one thing we all agreed to in the room was that not all maps need a north arrow
#carto2025 #maps #design #music #cartography
Helen McKenzie “sorted out her priorities” and guided us through her upcoming new book of Quirky things in the UK and the challenges and lessons she learnt over the duration of this labour of love.
Published on Sept 11th 2025 by @collins_ref
#carto2025 #maps #UK #quirky #book #design #cartography
A journey covering 85 years of Maps on Vinyl - the influence that maps have had on album cover design sleeves by Damien Saunder.
Congratulations on the Stanfords Award certificate too, for this outstanding compilation!
#carto2025 @bcsmaps #awards #vinyl #maps #design #atlas #art
It's been 35yrs since I worked at BGS when I vowed never to be a cartographer. Technically, I've never had a job with 'cartographer' in the title so I kinda held myself to that promise. Good to be back today for #carto2025 though.
Going back to the drawing board in representation in the field of landscape mapping.
Collating the information across all sorts of different maps and images and creating a full view of the land to see the wider picture.
By Prof Kathryn Moore of West Midlands National Park Lab.
#carto2025 #maps
Such varied evidence of how to map “estates” and what that could mean in the talk “Mapping the Estate” by Julian Williams at the University of Westminster.
Some in depth research shown across all the design elements that come together to have made these maps.
#carto2025 #maps #estates #planning
Congratulations to our award winners and commended runners ups.
More details will follow on our socials over the next week.
Thank you again to our judges and sponsors, many of whom presented the awards today.
#carto2025 #awards
Congratulations to our award winners and commended runners ups.
More details will follow on our socials over the next week.
Thank you again to our judges and sponsors, many of whom presented the awards today.
#carto2025 #awards
Mapping the invisible landscape - An enlightening talk from Rachel Glenn and Sam Collins on how our perceived and real landscapes can differ and how our human brains process the landscapes around us and how we live in it.
#carto2025 #maps #perception #reality
Scroll through for the oxbow lake map changes example! And a great example of how survey dates affect the look of some of the maps. All of us who’ve studied any sort of geography love these features ❤️
Thanks to Ifan Shepherd and Steve Chilton from Middlesex University
#carto2025 #ordnancesurvey
A selection of the printed maps displayed for the awards ceremony.
A person presenting a slide titled ‘From peat to people - geological mapping at the British Geological Survey’
A person presenting a slide titled ‘advancing noise modelling with data science and fme enabled automations’
An image of a very large paper map. The map is William Smith’s geological map, often referred to as Britain's first geological map.
A couple of our team are attending the @bcsmaps.bsky.social 2025 annual conference taking place at @bgs.ac.uk today and yesterday.
It has been a fascinating few days so far and it’s great to see our maps displayed for the awards ceremony later today! #carto2025
Don’t forget to check out the entries for all our awards downstairs in the breakout area.
Thank you to our Awards Officer @Jim Goldsmith who is all prepped and ready to go at the end of the next session.
#carto2025 #awards #lotsofmaps #design #best
Leanne Hughes from BGS completes our first morning session with a fascinating overview of Geological Mapping and who uses their data and how it is collected.
From William Smith to today’s latest 3D models.
#carto2025 #geology #maps
Thank you to David Oxlade from @MottMacdonald giving us a detailed overview of their latest noise modelling process and how the data has been integrated to create award winning outputs for the whole of the country.
#carto2025 #maps #noise #3D #modelling #emissions #sound
Fascinating talk “Intersections - Census History and Land Use” from Bruce Mitchell @ONS to kick off our “Managing our landscapes” conference talk day.
#carto2025 #maps #cartography #landscape #landuse #landcover #geo
Day 2 of our Annual Conference kicking off at BGS with a welcome speech from BCS President @PaulNaylor. Thank you to all our hosts and speakers. Looking forward to hearing from them all.
#carto2025 #maps #cartography #geo
Thank you to the organisers for arranging a lovely meal at Brown’s, Nottingham last night.
It was a pleasure to spend time with so many like minded cartographers and form those friendships that last longer than the two days a year we spend with each other!!
#carto2025 #bcsmaps #network #community
Our Annual Awards will be announced at lunchtime today!!
Don’t forget to check out the award entries map gallery - but please keep tea/coffee away from the table 🤣
Also BGS have some spare/outdated maps so feel free to take those ones home 🏠
#carto2025 #maps #awards
What a great drinks reception and viewing we had this evening at @nottinghamvenues and with Gary Priestnall from University of Nottingham.
Thank you to our hosts and all those who attended!
#carto2025 #bcsmaps #maps #nottingham #drinksreception #network #community
Visits now starting including this Core Store trip at BGS to understand more about why there is a core archive and how they are created and logged.
#carto2025 #bcsmaps #maps #geo #geological
@britgeosurvey
Morning workshops underway creating 3D profile modelling with BGS, and Urban Land Use mapping with Seppe C.
#carto2025 #maps #bcs @britgeosurvey
Great spread of maps on display from British Geological Surveys collection alongside great explanations from BGS staff this morning, as part of our Map Curators Group event.
#carto2025 #maps #libraries #curators #williamsmith #geology
The BCS 2025 “Managing our Landscape” Annual Conference is under way!
If you have any questions please find a BCS council member with an orange lanyard, or see someone on the front BCS desk.
Thank you again to British Geological Survey for hosting us these two days.
#carto2025 #maps
#ICC2025 only gave speakers 12 mins so they got the single slide version of my Mapbusters talk. BCS next week has given me 25 mins so they get the full version. Looking forward to #carto2025 in my home town of Nottnum mi duck!
Join @bcsmaps.bsky.social for their Annual Conference #carto2025 'Managing Our Landscapes' including speakers from DEFRA, BGS, Registers of Scotland, ESRI and leading academics
📅3-4 September
📍Nottingham
Register🔗www.cartography.org.uk/annual-conference
