The Dynamic World wins IMTA Gold Award Best....

19 March 2009, 3:59pm

The Dynamic World wins IMTA Gold Award Best Wall Map

The critically acclaimed International Map Trade Association (IMTA) Award for Best Wall Map has been won by The Dynamic World, an exceptional educational wall map produced and published by British cartographic company Global Mapping, using data from the The XYZ Digital Map Company’s extensive World dataset.

Previously, in 2008, the Dynamic World also won awards from the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers and the British Cartographic Society.

The map offers a unique way to view the area’s most at risk due to the consequences of human activity and natural phenomena and shows clearly how the world is changing on both the map sheet and a series of information boxes.


Examples include dramatic changes in the extent of Arctic sea ice, leaving the famous North West passage in Canada completely free of ice for the first time in human memory during summer 2007. This has raised the possibility of shipping using a route that has traditionally eluded explorers.

The map was researched and designed by Global Mapping’s Mary Spence MBE, a past president of the British Cartographic Society. Leading organisations involved in monitoring global warming, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have provided analysis.

The map was created using the XYZ OverView World 1:15m data set from The XYZ Digital Map Company, with a natural colour / hillshading background, incorporating NASA data, also supplied by XYZ.

The Dynamic World measures 1.33 metres by 93cm and is published at a scale of 1: 30,000,000. It can be ordered direct from www.mapstop.co.uk.

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