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Rocky Mountain Map Society virtual speaker

  • 14 Mar 2024
  • 4:00 PM
  • via Zoom

Rocky Mountain Map Society - virtual speaker

THURSDAY,  14 March 2024, at 4:00PM Pacific

Title: Why We Collect Road Maps

Speaker: Gary Spaid, Past President, Road Map Collectors Association

Register in advance for this ZOOM virtual event by clicking HERE.

Location: via Zoom 4:00PM Pacific5:00PM Mountain, 6:00PM Central, 7:00PM Eastern

(Arranged with assistance of Rocky Mountain Map Society; sponsored in partnership with California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies)

Summary: In this well illustrated presentation, Spaid will enumerate reasons why it is important to collect road maps. He will demonstrate that they document the history of automobile and service station design; the development of trails, roads, and highways; changing cartographic techniques; cultural history; and oil company histories. Others may collect for the art and graphics, or to document a favorite state or brand. He will show examples of road maps produced by various publishers and in different formats. He will conclude by showing a range of oil company and official maps of Texas, and a few examples of road map rarities.

Bio: Spaid is a long-time road map collector, having started collecting about 1996. He is a past Treasurer (2009-2013) and President (2013 – 2021) of the Road Map Collectors Association, Inc., an international organization devoted to the hobby. He is a board Director currently. Through his efforts the organization became an IRS 501c3 non-profit entity and grew from about 150 members to now about 300. Gary’s personal road map collection of about 10,000 road maps is focused generally on oil company road maps. He is also a coin and stamp collector.

A graduate of Virginia Tech, Gary was a chemical engineer by trade, working mostly in the Houston, Texas area. His experience ranged from being a technical service engineer through being a chemical plant facility manager. He eventually migrated to running an environmental, health and safety consulting company for about 15 years. He retired to the mountains of Arkansas in 2014.

Questions? Please contact Ronald E. Grim, Ph.D.

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 LeFranco

 "The Best of Beijing"

Journalist and sinophile Ed LeFranco 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 Deborah Scacco

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

bonus: Deborah's exhibition "Laboratory for the Future" at Propeller Gallery is open through January 2026!



closing remarks




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