TU München Archives – Cartography M.Sc.

Goodbye, Munich – Hallo! Vienna: The journey continues

Yesterday marked an important milestone—the final day of exams for the Cartography students of the 14th intake at the Technical University of Munich. As this chapter ends, so does their time studyin...

Hands-on learning through creative projects: First semester “Mapping Projects” at TUM

The first semester of the MSc Cartography programme at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) concluded with a creative and technical highlight: The “Mapping Project” presentations for t...

Welcoming the 14th intake: A new cartographic journey begins

From October 7–14, 2024, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) proudly hosted the Welcoming Week for the 14th intake of the international MSc Cartography programme. With 31 students from 24 count...

🎓 Graduation Ceremony – Cartography Cohort 12 🎓

On Friday, October 11, we celebrated the graduation of the 12th cohort of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Program in Cartography! This incredible group—comprising 11 women and 9 men from 16 different ...

Mapping Projects of the Winter Semester 2023/2024 at TUM

Cartography MSc students of the first semester at TUM developed data visualization methods, prototypes, and cartographic designs using different tools and digital media within the Mapping Project cour...

Welcoming the 13th intake!

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. We were welcomed in the MSc Cartography program. The Welcoming Week took place from October 9 to 16, 2023 at the main campus of the Techncal Uni...

Congratulations to our graduates for receiving AGEO Award!

Cartography M.Sc. graduates Valerian Lange and Josè Pablo Ceballos received 1st and 2nd place in the AGEO Awards 2023 for the best master theses in the Geographic information field in Austria. The aw...

Accessible Places, Everywhere – An Interactive Vernissage of Maps Created by our Students in the 1st Semester at TUM

In our 2023 Mapping Project we focused on barrier-free maps to improve the mobility of people with visual or mobility impairments. During the project we had the chance to get first-hand input from the...

Welcome 12th intake!

The Welcoming Week 2022 took place between 10 – 17th October at the main TUM campus in Munich. Altogether 20 students from 16 different countries enrolled this year. Our newcomers had a very busy...

How I Met Your Mapper – An interactive vernissage of maps created by our students in the 1st semester at TUM

We just completed our 2022 Mapping Project. Cartography MSc students of the first semester at TUM developed data visualization methods, prototypes, and cartographic designs using different tools and d...

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...

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented maps

A lot of maps have been created in the last months showing all kinds of statistics and impacts of the Coronavirus. Cartography MSc students of the 10th intake created their COVID-19 maps and presented...

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. ...

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...

Student story: Berlin Wall – An animated story on a 3D model

All of us have seen maps in museums and exhibition areas, which try to explain and show various dynamic processes and their geographical aspects. Some of them are traditional static maps, some of them...

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...

Munich goodbye! Welcome to Vienna!

The 9th intake of our Cartography students has finished the first semester at TU Munich. It is now time to discover a new city and start the second semester at TU Vienna. The semester in Munich went v...

From idea to implementation: Mapping Project presentations at TUM 2019/2020

The 9th Intake of Cartography MSc presented their results of the semester work within the Mapping project course, an elective module that aims at developing data visualization methods, prototypes, and...

Welcoming the 9th Intake of Cartography M.Sc.

The 9th Intake of Cartography M.Sc. has started their first semester at TU Munich. Congratulations to all of you with the start of this exciting journey in cartography! Altogether 25 students from 18 ...

Congratulations Cartography M.Sc. graduates of 2019!

As the summer semester came to the end, 19 Cartography M.Sc. students successfully finished their theses at TU Munich, TU Vienna, University of Twente and TU Dresden. Congratulations to the new gradua...

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...

First Cartography alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova obtained a PhD degree

We are happy and proud to announce, that the first Cartography M.Sc. alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova from the 2nd intake finished her PhD research and defended her dissertation last Tuesday, January 22nd ...

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...

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...

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...

Congratulations to 10 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates

We are happy to congratulate the next students from the 5th intake who finished their Master’s thesis in the last three months: Susanna Abraham, Kaidi Guo, Christopher Hogg, Kamila Cwik, Alika Jen...

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...

Guest lecture and workshop by Fraunhofer IAIS on Visual Analytics

As every year, our colleagues and associated partners from Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS visited TUM and provided guest lectures and a special workshop con...

Welcome new students of the 7th intake

On the 9th of October the 7th intake started the Cartography Master programme. This year, a whole welcoming week was organized and we think it was the first highlight of their studies for the new grou...

Cartography M.Sc. will continue as Erasmus Mundus programme

We are happy to inform you that our international Master of Science programme in Cartography was successful again and has been selected for Erasmus+ by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive...

Master’s thesis presentation of Aleksandra Draksler

On March 28, Aleksandra Draksler, student of the 4th intake, presented her Master thesis “The Effect of Satellite Image Resolution and Minimum Mapping Unit on the Accuracy of Forest Cover Maps&#...

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 ...

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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...

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 ...

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...

Meet & greet with representatives of all 4 partner universities of the International Master of Cartography

On April 14, the Research Group Cartography hosted a meeting of representatives of all partner universities of the Master of Cartography programme. We were happy to welcome programme coordinator Julia...

Guest lecture and workshop about Visual Analytics

On 30–31 January 2016, Cartography MSc. students took part in a guest lecture and a special workshop concentrated on Visual Analytics of spatio-temporal data. The meeting was conducted by Dr.-Ing. G...

Welcome to the 5th intake

We are proud welcoming 22 new Cartography students from 14 different countries from all over the world. The 5th intake is the first cohort co-funded under Erasmus Mundus Joint Master degree. A scholar...

Excursion to ESRI Germany Headquarter in Kranzberg

Cartography students visited the head quarter of ESRI Germany in Kranzberg near Munich. During the visit, they created online maps with the use of Collector for ArcGIS App, such as online map of stude...

Students participating at ICC 2013 in Dresden

The 26th International Cartographic Conference took place in Dresden from 25th until 30th of August 2013. Cartography M.Sc. students of the 1st intake had the chance to present their Master’s th...

Welcoming our first intake

We are happy to welcome 14 students from 10 different countries to study within our Cartography M.Sc. They are the pioneers for this new programme. During the first week of studies, students and staff...