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California Map Society Conference

  • 19 Aug 2023
  • 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • David Rumsey Map Center


California Map Society Conference

Saturday, August 19, 2023

David Rumsey Map Center

Green Library, Stanford University

10:00 am - 4:30 pm


    Join us on August 19th, 2023, for a gathering of map, history, art and science lovers, to hear from a superb group of speakers about both historical and modern-day mapping. To register for attending either in-person or by zoom, click here (an Eventbrite link, managed by the David Rumsey Map Center.)

    Doors will open at 10:00am and presentations will begin sharply at 10:30am.

    I look forward to seeing you!

    Thanks,

    Tom Paper

    California Map Society, tom@websterpacific.com

    Speaker Topic
    David Rumsey update on Rumsey Map Center projects
    Jose Adrian Barragan-Alvarez Visualizing Place exhibit at UC Berkeley
    Brad Herried & James Irwin Apple Maps & indigenous boundaries
    Chet Van Duzer Maps & Power
    Tom Paper & Ron Gibbs Collaborative map exploration with Pixeum
    Brynn Kramer Dutch canal engineering maps
    Aaron Cope SFO Museum and wayfinding app
    Arjun Maheshwari, Stanford '25, winner of the David Rumsey/CMS map curation contest. Segmented Cities: Inter-group conflict & coexistence
    Gray Brechin The San Francisco scale model
    Jeff Meyer & Minh Nguyen Open Historical Map


    ** Click here for video of the BAM Group meeting held on June 17, 2023.

    Agenda

    Times are subject to change.

    10:00 Registration and Hospitality
     10:30   welcome
    10:40 - 11:20 William Mosely

    "Satellite imagery and wildfire response: The Palisades Fire"

    Planet Labs PBC operates flocks of microsatellites providing a hi-resolution snapshot of the earth every day, and even higher-resolution satellites that capture images on demand.

    Customer Success Manager William Mosely will detail how Microsoft AI for Good and Planet partnered to measure the impact of the devastating nearby Palisades fire this past January.
     11:25 - 12:05

    Cal Tabuena-Frolli

    "Yield 02"

    Artist Cal Tabuena-Frolli is following a stint with the Santa Paula Oil Museum with a series of maps and related pieces detailing the history of oil in California, from pre-historic times through 1929. That's when most of us think California oil history begins.
     12:10 - 12:50 Ed LanFranco

     “Map Madness: Corralling, Collating and Categorizing a Cartobiliography of Beijing”

    Journalist and sinophile Ed LanFranco will share the various ways the capital of China has been cartographically portrayed throughout the 20th century.
    12:50 - 1:30
    		break
    1:30 - 2:10 Jon Jablonski "Resurrecting Landscapes with Machine Vision"

    Librarian Jon Jablonski is leveraging collections of aerial photography at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA to build 3-d models of 1930s Yosemite Valley, the Gaviota Coast, and more! By using Agisoft Metashape, the overlapping stereo photographs reveal long-forgotten vistas and have the potential to help find forgotten abandoned oil wells. 
    2:15 - 2:50 Debra Scacco

    Santa Monica's first artist-in-residence at City Yards, Debra Scacco will highlight how maps, cartography, and the landscape interact in her work as artist and curator. 

    bonus: Debra's exhibition "Laboratory for the Future" at Santa Monica City Yards' Propeller Gallery is open through January 2026! She has offered to walk us through immediately after the meeting. The gallery is a short drive away


    		closing remarks




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