8th intake Archives – Cartography M.Sc.

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...

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...

And the award goes to… a Cartography Master Student!

Our sincere congratulations to Daphné Tapia from our 8th intake on the award “Best Nokia France Student” that she has received for her outstanding work at the Alcatel Submarine Networks! ...

Cartography student life during COVID-19 outbreak

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the universities closed their classrooms and labs for a while. But despite this time of uncertainty, we carry on and we have started a new exciting semester in a differen...

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...

Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting 2019

From October 10-12, 2019, the 1st Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting with more than 90 participants took place. The event was hosted by TU Munich. The alumni of all former intakes, fresh graduates, cu...

Student story: My summer working with the British Red Cross’s International Family Tracing team

I spent my summer working with the British Red Cross’s (BRC) International Family Tracing team. The team supports enquirers in their search for family members that they have lost contact with. Many ...

Student story: My Internship at Alcatel Submarine Network

Who has ever thought that our internet connection, phone calls and favorite TV show on Netflix were dependent on cables laying under the sea? Contrary to the common thought, more than 90% of our commu...

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 ...

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...

Student story: Woodworking maps

I have always dreamt about working with wood! No matter if you are inept-handed, the new technologies such as laser cutter can give you all the necessary tools to get started. You can say to the machi...

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...

Student story: MakerSpace for making maps

Cartography M.Sc. students Michael Hallett and Luke Harvey came up with a challenging idea for their Mapping project this winter semester – creating a 3D printed model of one of the most beautif...

Mapping Project presentations at TUM

The mapping project is a creative elective module that gives form to innovative cartographic concepts and visualization solutions for challenging issues in cartography and GIScience. In this course...

Guest lecture series by Prof. Dr Alan MacEachren from GeoVISTA Center, The Pennsylvania State University

Prof. Dr Alan MacEachren, the Director of GeoVISTA Center (The Pennsylvania State University) has made an important contribution to our Cartography Master Program. We were delighted to host Alan at TU...

Guest Seminar on Visual Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Data

From 19th to 21st of November, Dr. Georg Fuchs from Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS visited TUM. Georg gave very interesting guest lectures and a workshop to...

Welcome 8th intake!

A new student intake started the Cartography Master programme. This year we are proud and happy to welcome 30 students from 19 different countries! The sun was shining the whole welcoming week and the...

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....