International School on Visualization 2025
International Spring School on Visualization: Seeing Through Lies: Mapping Trust in the Age of Misinformation
Are you interested in visualization, cartography, and combating misinformation? Join the International Spring School on Visualization!
- April 1–2, 2025
- Online (Zoom)
- Top experts from around the world
What can you expect?
Keynote speech by ICA President Georg Gartner
Lectures from leading experts from Esri, Leibniz Institute, Penn State University, and more
Interdisciplinary insights – cartography, political science, psychology, AI, eye-tracking
Practical tips on how to effectively visualize data and fight misinformation
Free registration for students of Palacký University Olomouc
Special fee for members of ČKS, ČGS, CAGI: 20 EUR
Regular registration: 70 EUR
Students can earn 3 ECTS credits!
Don’t miss this unique opportunity – register now at https://www.geoinformatics.upol.cz/iss/
Cartographic Day Olomouc 2025: The Theme of Fictional Worlds!
Building on our successes, we look forward to 2025!
Managing Mosquito Populations with Mergin Maps – https://merginmaps.com/case-studies/managing-mosquito-populations-with-mergin-maps?fbclid=IwY2xjawHoXU1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRrW0_kzjpuZlsBig7STjIrgmuvfRWaRDTtJuoCDVu-KcB924QbPQk0zrQ_aem_CXPv-jueXK64dmiV99a5DwNew Ph.D. graduate
This week, Michal Kučera successfully defended his dissertation titled Evaluation of External Influences on Railway Transport Using Geoinformatics Methods and earned his Ph.D.! Congratulations on achieving this milestone, and best wishes for much success in your future career!
GISday 2024
On Wednesday, November 20, 2024, our department traditionally joined the global GISday event. As part of the traditional morning-afternoon program, we welcomed high school students. If you are interested in coming next year, we will be happy to welcome you too, more information here.
A novelty this year was the early evening part dedicated to graduates, colleagues and the public, combined with a tour of the department. Current events at the department were presented by Assoc. Prof. Burian, and representatives of the Olomouc Region (Mgr. Dagmar Valchařová), the Olomouc City Hall (Mgr. Miloslav Dvořák) and the Olomouc Region Fire Rescue Service (Mgr. Josef Koláček) outlined their experiences and ties to the department. Thank you all for participating, and thanks to Patricia Dominiková for the photos.
New papers from our production
Scenarios of Future Urban Development for the City of Jihlava Geoparticipation in Mapping Mosquito Outbreak HotspotsOLOphoto 2024
A traditional photo shoot of graduates of our department, who work in various spheres within the GIS community in the Czech Republic as well as abroad, took place within the GIS Esri 2024 conference.
Henry Johns Award 2023 goes to department
The Henry Johns Award for 2023, presented annually by the British Cartographic Society in collaboration with Lovell Johns for the most significant article published in The Cartographic Journal, has been awarded this year to a team of authors led by Dr. Markéta Beitlová.
The editorial board of The Cartographic Journal selected the winning article, “Verification of Cartographic Communication Models Using Detection of Map Reading Strategies Based on Eye Movement Recording,” authored by Markéta Beitlová, Stanislav Popelka, Martin Konopka, and Karel Macků, from over twenty nominated submissions.
This article was recognized for its significant empirical findings, which contribute to a better understanding of the map-reading process and encourage a revision of theoretical frameworks in cartographic communication.
The award also includes a monetary prize, which the team has decided to donate to the SOS Floods Czech Republic campaign, organized by the non-governmental nonprofit organization People in Need.
The authors would like to extend their thanks to all the former students who participated in the experiment and provided their maps as stimuli for the study.
