NEXT MEETING

The 2012 Winter Meeting will be co-sponsored with the Los Angeles Public Library and held in the Taper Auditorium at the Richard J. Riordan Central Library on Saturday, January 21, 2012.

The meeting is free for all who attend. So come one, come all!

For directions to the meeting and parking, click here.

We would like for you to register for the meeting so we are adequately prepared. You can print the registration form here and mail it to us. Or you can email the information on the form to Steve Hicks, CMS Vice President for Southern California. Members and guests who pre-register will have nametags waiting for them.

CMS will meet at 8:30 AM in the Bookends Café before the library opens. The co-sponsored public program will start at 10:00 AM, when the library formally opens. Our 8:30 registration will be held in this nice little coffee-shop type café just inside the library’s west door. Take the elevator from the parking lot to the Plaza. Turn left and walk 50 feet. Turn left again and into the library double doors where you will see the café on your right. The Bookends Café will open at 8:00 AM, and we will begin registration at 8:30 AM. Come have coffee and a Danish and an opportunity to talk with old and new friends. Following a short meeting we’ll have our own library tour and at 10:00 AM we’ll move into the auditorium to get the public meeting started.

We will be "on our own" for lunch and there are many restaurant options to consider.

Steve Hicks, our Vice President for Southern California, has organized an extraordinary event.

CMS WINTER MEETING PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
RICHARD J. RIORDAN CENTRAL LIBRARY OF THE
LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012

FOR CMS MEMBERS:

08:30 CMS Registration, coffee, tea, muffins, etc. (in the Bookends Café within the library)

09:00-9:15 CMS General membership meeting (in the Café)

09:15-10:00 CMS Library tour and break

PUBLIC CONFERENCE IN THE TAPER AUDITORIUM BEGINS AT10:00 AM:

10:00-10:20 Welcome, Fred DeJarlais, President CMS, Steve Hicks, Vice President for Southern California, and Dan Dupill, Principal Librarian, Central Library, Los Angeles Public Library

10:20–11:10 Waldo Tobler, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, and recipient of the Osborn Maitland Miller Cartographic Medal of the American Geographical Society. Dr. Tobler is a recognized authority on map projections. Ptolemy wanted correct distances on maps. Mercator changed this to warp maps for use as a nomograph for navigation purposes. These and other map projection transformations for other uses are explored in this presentation on Historic and Current Map Projections. Ask him why the Qibla is 23.85 deg.N. or directly over Dodger Stadium from here.

11:10-12:00 Glen Creason, Map Librarian at the Richard J. Riordan Central Library and author of “Los Angeles in Maps”. Glen will be speaking on Historic Maps of Los Angeles, 1849 to 1956. Glen organized the widely acclaimed map exhibit which led to the publication of his book. He oversees a treasure trove of maps in the basement of this institution.

12:00-1:15 Lunch and Library Exhibition of Los Angeles Historic Maps.

1:15-2:00 Eugene Turner and James Allen, Professors in the Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge and co-authors of The Ethnic Quilt and Changing Faces, Changing Places . Their talk will be Changes in Race and Hispanic Distributions within California, 2000 - 2010. We’ll see the dramatic shifts in California’s population in the last ten years. Drs. Turner and Allen have studied ethnic geography for years and are experts in showing patterns of change in Southern California’s neighborhoods through census data.

2:00–2:45 Greg McIntosh, independent scholar, The Amazing Trek of Portuguese Pilot Moreira from San Francisco Bay to Mexico in 1579-1583. Many factors went into creating the famous cartographic myth of California as an island. The 1510 romantic novel Las Sergas de Esplandian and particularly the map created in 1620 by Antonio de la Ascension. That map and accompanying report were captured by the Dutch. The report told of Noreira’s marooning by Francis Drake and his four year 1500 mile journey on foot. An incredible journey.

2:45–3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 Keith Clarke, Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Getting Started with GIS, Analytical and Computer Cartography and soon to be published Maps and Web Mapping. He will speak on Geography in a Mobile, Wireless World: Webcams, Sensor webs and Rich Geospatial Content. Also known for his “Ask Dr. Map” column in the ACSM Bulletin and lots of spatial skills.

4:00-4:15 Questions and discussion, ending with conclusion of the public meeting.

4:30-5:00 California Map Society Board Meeting (open to all interested parties)

In accordance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act: The City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and upon request will provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities.

We hope to see you and your friends at the meeting.