Archives of 6th intake

#Cartosquad16 Farewell Party

After spending last three semesters together and sharing experiences of participating in interesting and challenging projects and exams, and of studying and living in different European cities, this F...

Cartography students at GeoMundus 2017 conference

On the 10th and 11th of November the 9th GeoMundus Conference took place at the Institute of Geoinformatics (IFGI) of the University of Münster, Germany. Organized by students of the Erasmus Mundus M...

Alpine Cartography Field School 2017

With a record participation of 21 students of the Master programme “Cartography” and 10 students of the TUD Master programme “Geoinformation Technologies” this year’s Alpine Cartography Fiel...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 from the 6th intake in Munich

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 ...
IVE (Immersive video environment), Picture: University of Münster

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...

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...
Screenshot: Atlas of Switzerland

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...

OSM Mapping Day

Within the OSMGEOWEEK, teachers, students, community groups and map lovers around the world, join together to celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free and openly editable map of ...
Expectations of the new intake on a map

Welcoming the 6th intake

We are proud and happy to welcome students from all over the world in the new intake of our Cartography M.Sc. programme. This year Munich became home for 6 months for 20 students from 16 countries. We...