Apply for the 2024 intake of the Cartography Master programme!
Application for the 2024 intake (program start: October 2024) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2024....
Map by Phoebe Ly represents September in 2024 GeoHipster Calendar
We are excited to share that Phoebe Ly’s map “Taman Negara Gunung Mulu” is part of the 2024 GeoHipster Calendar. Taman Negara Gunung Mulu (Mount Mulu National Park), is a UNESCO Worl...
Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2023 for Dilara Bozkurt and Zhenjiang Li
Congratulations to our M.Sc. students Dilara Bozkurt and Zhenjiang Li for being awarded the Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2023 in the category students. Zhenjiang Li – Hokkien Zhenjiang Li won with hi...
Apply for the 2023 intake of the Cartography Master programme!
Application for the 2023 intake (program start: October 2023) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2023....
Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2022 for Camila Narbaitz Sarsur
Congratulations to our M.Sc. student Camila Narbaitz Sarsur for winning the Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2022 in the category students with Wien Secession – An Artsy Walk through Vienna, which she desig...
Erasmus Mundus scholarships available! Our programme is funded again by the European Commission
We are extremely excited to share with you that our Cartography Master programme will be funded again by the European Commission....
Apply for the 2022 intake of the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2022 intake (program start: October 2022) is now open!...
Ravenstein-Förderpreis for Nele Peschel
Congratulations to our M.Sc. student Nele Peschel for winning the Ravenstein-Förderpreis in the category students with Mapping SÁMI Languages. Designed in the Project Map Creation during her summer...
Map by Jonathan King represents January in 2022 GeoHipster Calendar
We are excited to share that Jonathan King’s map “Navigation Nightlights – Midcoast Maine’s Lighthouses” is part of the 2022 GeoHipster Calendar. The 2022 calendar from G...
Social Activities after the semester start at TUD
Hiking in the Saxon Switzerland NP The Saxon Switzerland National Park (Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz) is only a 45-minute train ride away from Dresden main station and was the location of the firs...
Welcome 11th intake!
The Welcoming Week 2021 took place between 11 – 18th October at the main TUM campus in Munich. It was finally possible to celebrate it as an on-site event after we followed all the safety regulati...
10th Anniversary of the Alpine Cartography Field School
Between September 29th and October 8th 2021 the Alpine Cartography Field School (ACFS) took place in Ramsau/Dachstein (Austria) already for the 10th time since the start of the International Cartograp...
Farewell to the 10th intake at TU Wien
The 10th intake of the International Master Programme in Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for their third semester. After another semester of distanc...
Are you ready to apply for the 2021 intake of the Cartography Master programme?
Just a reminder: The deadline to apply for the 11th intake of the Cartography Master programme is end of this month: 31 May 2021. ...
Placing Poems – A poetic side project by one of our students
We are happy to feature Placing Poems, a project by Ceren Dolma, student of 9th intake of the Cartography Master programme: To find a poem near you, visit the interactive map at https://placingpoems.c...
Apply for the 2021 intake of the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2021 intake (program start: October 2021) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2021....
Map by Milana Glebova and Nikita Slavin represents November in 2021 GeoHipster Calendar
The Moscow buildings map by our students Milana Glebova (9th intake) and Nikita Slavin (8th intake) has been selected and is part of the 2021 GeoHipster Calendar. The interactive Moscow map can be vie...
Award for excellent teaching goes to Juliane Cron
Each year, the Student Council for Aerospace and Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich awards the lecturers with the best teaching evaluations. We are very proud to announce that a lecture of ...
Congratulations to the Cartography M.Sc. graduates of 2020
The summer semester 2020 was a very special one due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Normally, students in the 4th semester are moving to one of our four university locations to start their thesis research. ...
MSc Cartography Alumnus Presents at Geomundus Virtual Conference
Despite the challenges brought about by the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the annual Geomundus Conference were able to push through and successfully mount the event last 27-28 Novemb...
Map of Jakob Listabarth featured in the Atlas of Design Volume 5
The Atlas of Design is published by the North American Cartographic Information Society and includes some of the world’s most beautiful cartographic designs. Map makers are invited in a worldwide co...
Welcome 10th intake!
A new student intake started the Cartography Master programme. Of course, we imagined something completely different to celebrate and welcome our anniversary intake, but we are glad that we could orga...
Congratulations Dr. Shayan Nikoohemat
The Cartography M.Sc. partner universities are proud to announce that Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat from the 1st intake finished his PhD research and defended his dissertation successfull...
Congratulations to Maja Kalinic for winning the best paper award
We congratulate our alumna Maja Kalinic for the first place in the best paper award evaluation for papers published in Taylor & Francis – Annals of GIS in 2019. Majas paper is about “Fuzzy...
Student story: A collaboration with Sharing Water
The 2020 Summer Semester at TU WIEN was different, due to Covid19 and the change to online-based learning. During this time, I had the opportunity to work on a collaborative (remote) project for the m...
Farewell to the 9th intake at TU Wien
The 9th intake of the International Master Programme in Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for their third semester. After a full semester of distance ...
Application deadline for self funding students extended until June 30
Due to the current situation, the application deadline for self-funding students for the 2020 intake (program start: 1.10.2020) has been extended until 30 June 2020....
Apply for the 2020 intake of the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2020 intake (program start: October 2020) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2020....
Ravensteinpreis: Congratulations to Jenny Janssen and Jakob Listabarth
The Ravenstein-Förderpreis is a sponsorship award to foster young cartographers in Germany (and German-speaking countries). On October 17, this years’ award ceremony took place in Frankfurt. We...
Farewell to the 8th intake at TU Wien
The eigth intake has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. In a farewell session, we reviewed the summer term and showcased results of their hard ...
Guest lectures at TU Wien
This summer semester, we had the privilege to welcome 10 guest lecturers at TU Wien. This way our students had the chance to meet and discuss with some of the leading researchers in the field of carto...
An excursion about Otto Neurath and the Vienna Method
Otto Neurath (1882‒1945) was an Austrian philosopher and political economist, also known for developing Isotype – a method for showing statistical data in pictorial form. Main principle of the...
Munich, goodbye! Welcome to Vienna!
The first semester at TU Munich came to an end, and after challenging exams it is time to move forward. By semester completion, we asked our students which professional and personal skills they have d...
Apply for the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2019 intake (program start: October 2019) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2019....
Congratulations to 11 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates
We are happy to congratulate the first students from the 6th intake who finished their Master’s thesis over the summer: Armand Kapaj, Maria Turchenko, Roar Engell, Christian Haack, Satarupa Chatterj...
Farewell to the 7th intake at TU Wien
The seventh intake has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. We organized a farewell session to review the semester and to showcase results of the...
Guest lectures at TU Wien
This summer semester, we had the privilege to welcome 7 guest lecturers at TU Wien. Most of them not only offered public CartoTalks, but also in-depth classes for our students only. This way our stude...
Goodbye to Munich, welcome to Vienna!
All 24 students of the 7th intake finished their first semester at TU München and just started their second semester at TU Wien. After a busy semester and challenging exams, all personal belongings w...
Apply for the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2018 intake (program start: October 2018) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2018....
Guest seminar on User-centered Cartography
In the beginning of December, Robert Roth – Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin – visited TUM for one week. Rob gave very interesting guest lectures to the Cartography M.Sc...
Congratulations to the first graduates of the 5th intake
We are happy to congratulate our first Erasmus Mundus alumni of the 5th intake: Maja Kalinic, Dragana Subotic, Junyan Li, Chenyu Zuo, Md. Marufur Rahman and Kate Doyle. Combining Open-Source Programmi...
What our students did during their summer …
Due to different term dates of the four Cartography M.Sc. universities, the break between the 2nd and the 3rd semester is the first longer break for our students. The summer time can be spent on trave...
Graduation of Cartography students
We congratulate all our students from the 4th intake who finished their Master’s thesis this summer: Vasileios Toutziaris, Alexandra Strel, Dayanc Moradi, Vikram Devi Eswaramoorthy, Amir Ashkan ...
Farewell to the sixth intake at TU Wien
The sixth intake of the International Master Programme on Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. We organized a small farewell sess...
Cartography M.Sc. students and alumni at the International Cartographic Conference in Washington, D.C.
This week, the 28th International Cartographic Conference takes place in Washington, D.C. The bi-annual conference of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is a huge celebration of cartogra...
Orienteering Events in Vienna
Orienteering combines map reading with navigation and running, which makes it a perfect sport for aspiring cartographers. Last week, two orienteering events were organized in Vienna: the Austrian Acad...
Master’s thesis presentation of Myles Cook
We congratulate Myles Cook, student of the 4th intake, for finishing his Master’s Thesis “An Empirical Evaluation of 2D and Interactive 3D Terrain Visualisations for Cycling Maps”. To assess...
Guest lecture on Geovisual Analytics
On May 16, 2017, the Research Group Cartography at TU Wien hosted the CartoTalk “Making Maps that Matter – New Challenges in Geovisual Analytics” by Anthony Robinson from Penn State Univ...
Welcome to our new website
We are excited to announce the relaunch of our website. We hope that the new website is easier to read and navigate on a wide range of devices – from desktop and tablet to mobile phones. We also...
Our student Ao Kaidong participated in Eisriesenwelt measurement campaign
From April 20 until April 24, a measurement campaign took place in the biggest ice cave in the world, the “Eisriesenwelt”, near the village of Werfen (Austria). Our student Ao participated...
Guest lecture on transit maps
On April 10, 2017, the Research Group Cartography at TU Wien hosted a CartoTalk by Maxwell Roberts from University of Essex, UK. In his presentation, Maxwell Roberts discussed the criteria necessary f...
Follow our student Maja on her Erasmus blog
Our student and Erasmus Mundus scholarship holder Maja Kalinic from Bosnia and Herzegowina (5th intake) shares her experiences in the Cartography M.Sc. in her blog on erasmusu. In her latest post sh...
Welcome in Vienna for the second semester
We are happy to welcome 20 students of the International Master in Cartography at TU Vienna for the summer semester 2017. Students come from all over the world, including Albania, Austria, Canada, Ch...
Farewell to the 6th intake
The first semester in Munich passed by quickly! Before moving to Vienna, students from the 6th intake took part in the farewell session and summarized the results of student work and gave feedback on ...
Guest lecture on the Immersive Video Environment
With the rise of various technologies, there is now a vast amount of (complex) spatiotemporal information that can be useful in different contexts of high societal relevance. Phenomena such as climate...
Visit of colleagues from ESRI
Jan Wilkening and Malte Sohlbach from Esri Germany were our guest lecturers on 3rd February 2017. GIS specialists from Kranzberg presented the ArcGIS platform technology and concepts. Interesting exam...
Master Thesis Presentation: Comparing mouse- and touch-based interaction for map search tasks on large screens
On February 1, Shuoyan Huang, student of the International Master in Cartography, presented her Master Thesis „Comparing mouse- and touch-based interaction for map search tasks on large screens“...
Cartography M.Sc. alumni involved in tactile atlas project
Our Cartography M.Sc. alumni Anna Vetter led the team who created the new “Tactile Atlas of Switzerland”. Anna works in Zürich for the mapping software company Esri. The new atlas is printed with...
Christmas Party 2016
To jump in in the Christmas mood, Cartography students organized a party with traditional food from their countries and prepared short presentations about the Christmas rituals. But the culminating po...
Guest lecture on the Atlas of Switzerland
How to design modern atlas visualizations? What layouts, icons and colour schemes are used in innovative multimedia cartography? Our guest lecture, Dr. René Sieber from ETH Zürich answered those que...
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