The BCS Award Winners 2008

11 September 2008, 9:49am

The British Cartographic Society Awards were recently announced at the Annual Symposium in Newport Pagnell, on Thursday 4th September, 2008.

The following awards for 2008 were presented.
More details about the winners, and photographs from the evening, will be available on the BCS website shortly.

THE UKHO JUNIOR MAPMAKER AWARD
This new award has been developed to encourage the creative representation, by children, of their environment in graphic form. The competition is supported by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office and will be given every two years. It comprises of a cheque for £50 for the overall winner in each of four age groups ranging from 7-16 years.

In the Mercator category (9-11):
COMMENDATION – Rhiannon Trower, from Taunton.

In the Atlas category (7-9 years):
WINNER – Chloe Smith from Brackley.
COMMENDATION – Louisa Webb from Taunton.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY NEW MAPMAKER AWARD
This award has been developed to encourage those starting out in cartographic or related industries as students or new employees in commercial firms or government. It is run with the continuing support of the National Geographic Society.

WINNER
Wesley Jones (NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences, Canada)
Dry Belt, Settlement and Abandonment of Southeast Alberta and Southwest Saskatchewan, 1908 to 1926

COMMENDATION
Colin Lundrigan (NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences, Canada)
Canadian Crime: Canada and Halifax

HENRY JOHNS CARTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL AWARD

Since 1975 the BCS has presented an award to the author of the most outstanding article published in The Cartographic Journal as judged by the editorial board. The award is sponsored by Lovell Johns and is named after Colonel Henry Johns who founded the company in 1965 as a traditional cartographic service company primarily serving the mapping needs of map publishers.

WINNER
Mark Harrower of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The winning article appeared in volume 44 issue 4 and is titled “Unclassed Animated Choropleth Maps”.

AVENZA AWARD FOR ELECTRONIC MAPPING
The Avenza Award is open to entries designed and created for electronic format. This year, qualifying entries included Web-based products, CD-Roms, presentations and databased derived mapping.
The judges were very impressed with the entries this year and have decided to present two Commendations as well as a winner.

WINNER
Peter Brett Associates
Thames Estuary Coastal Habitat Atlas

COMMENDATION
Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson
Electronic chart plotter focusing on the North Sea

COMMENDATION
Andy Allen
Cycle Map using OpenStreetMap’s open source geodata

THE STANFORDS AWARD FOR PRINTED MAPPING
The Stanfords Award is open to any mapping in the printed form, whether it be a poster, leaflet, folded sheet map, atlas or page from a book.
The judges agonized over this very popular award and finally decided as well as the winner, two highly commended and two commended certificates should be presented.

WINNER
Helen C. Stirling
Moray Health Walks

HIGH COMMENDATION
Collins Geo
2009 Fold out road atlas of Britain

HIGH COMMENDATION
Global Mapping
The Dynamic World

COMMENDATION
Collins Geo
The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World.

COMMENDATION
A&Z Cartography
Fishing Map of the Rackeve Branch of the Danube

ORDNANCE SURVEY MASTERMAP AWARD FOR BETTER MAPPING
The Ordnance Survey MasterMap award is to encourage innovative and stimulating map products derived from, and composed mainly of, Ordnance Survey's MasterMap data. The award is run with the support of Ordnance Survey.
Unfortunately, an award will not be made this year as it was the opinion of the judges that the entries did not fulfil all of the criteria as stated in the rules. The problem was not with the quality of the products, but they felt there was minimal or no innovative use of OS MasterMap data.

JOHN C. BARTHOLOMEW AWARD FOR SMALL SCALE MAPPING

The John C. Bartholomew Award is sponsored by Collins Bartholomew.
Unfortunately, it was decided that not enough entries fully met the criteria so there is no winner. The judges did feel that one entry merited a Commended certificate.

COMMENDATION
Books Division of National Geographic Society, Washington DC
National Geographic Atlas of China
BCS AWARD

This is to be presented to the entry judged to be the best from the two award winning entries presented for 2008, from The Avenza Award won by Peter Brett Associates and The Stanfords Award won by Helen C. Stirling.

WINNER
Peter Brett Associates
Thames Estuary Coastal Habitat Atlas.

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