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IMCoS Show and Tell - February 25, 2021

Our ten presenters are a mix - famous names and new faces - whether collector, dealer, enthusiast or academic, each is passionate about what they will be bringing before us. The contributed items are an equal mix - maps, a globe, an atlas, and town plans. The significance of these contributions ranges from the historical and topographical to the cultural and the linguistic. The items range from the 16th to the 20th Centuries.Speaker Video Playlist on Youtubehttps://www.imcos.org/ speakers: Nick Kanas, Wes Brown, Deirdre Boys

IMCoS Summer Talks - June 2021

Please join us for our four June lectures. All lectures are free but registration is necessary. Information and links are below.June 9, 2021, 7pm GMT - The Malcolm Young Lecture, Daniel Crouch, A Protestant Wind or Hot Air? A study of the Astor Armada drawings, (video of talk here) TO REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/153323088485June 16, 2021, 2pm GMT - Peter Geldart, Mapping the British Occupation of Manila 1762–64, (video of talk here) TO REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/152104628037June 23, 2021, 7pm GMT - Paula van Gestel, Wall maps published in the Netherlands between c.1550 and 1850, TO REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/152108419377June 30, 2021, 7pm GMT - Wes Brown, Alzate y Ramirez and the mapping of New Spain, (video of talk here) TO REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/152109701211

IMCoS Show and Tell 2 - November 30, 2021

The eight-speaker event took place on Zoom on November 30th, 2021, at 6pm UK time. IMCoS Event Page Playlist of all videos here.**************************************************************************Chat from meeting here and below:17:46:14 From maria rogante to Everyone:good evening, i'm from Iyaly, absolutely excited to listen this conference17:48:14 From Tom Paper to Everyone:To see images for today's presentation, go to https://www.thedigitalgallery.org/exhibits/19417:59:16 From Ana Soto-Canino to Everyone:Good day or evening to all. Ana here in the grey northeast coast, USA.17:59:49 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hi Ana!17:59:58 From Catherine NJ to Everyone:9pm Kenya.18:00:08 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hi Catherine!18:00:28 From maria rogante to Everyone:7 PM, Italy18:00:37 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hello Maria!18:01:03 From Stephen Nagler to Everyone:Hello from sunny Knoxville, TN18:01:12 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hi Stephen!18:01:16 From Catherine NJ to Everyone:Hi Mike!18:01:29 From Stephen Nagler to Everyone:Hi Mike!18:01:42 From Carey Gordon to Everyone:Hi from Florida, 1 pm here18:02:05 From Mark Mavroudis to Everyone:Hello from Cupertino, CA - 10am here18:03:35 From Tom Paper to Everyone:to see the slides for today's presentation, go to https://www.thedigitalgallery.org/exhibits/19418:09:05 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hi Mark M18:09:16 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hi Carey18:10:42 From Franca Tegliucci to Everyone:Hi everyone from Rome. My name is Franca Tegliucci18:10:57 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:Hi Franca! Thanks for coming!18:10:58 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hello Franca - Welcome!18:12:48 From Flavio Ruzzene to Everyone:Hi everyone from Veneto.Flavio18:13:17 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Hi Flavio. Hope it is warmer in the Veneto than in Northern England!18:16:20 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:Perhaps remind people where the raise hand icon is!18:19:34 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:Please feel free to place questions in the chat. We will ask them when either directly after the speaker finishes speaking or during the Q&A period at the end of the event.18:27:26 From John Docktor to Everyone:Is there anything on the verso?18:31:11 From Ana Soto-Canino to Everyone:Laurence, it would be an interesting project for a secondary school student to determine which graphic devices found in this artifact might still be found in current rail maps, say, even the London underground rail system, or the NYC subway. The exploration would deal with something thus: To what extent did these artifacts of the 1800s manage to “tool” our 20th century cartographic vocabulary for the display of railway lines.18:31:58 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:1859 Belgian railway map by Leloup: link to KBR digitization of one of their copies https://opac.kbr.be/LIBRARY/doc/SYRACUSE/1710880018:34:24 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Thanks Laurence18:43:03 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:French Wikipedia is very good on Philippe Vandermaelen and l’Établissement géographique de Bruxelles, who produced the Leloup map https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Vandermaele...18:48:54 From Andrew Kapochunas to Everyone:Did Plato ever approach USPS about incorporating his system of addressing in rural areas?18:50:03 From Stephen Nagler to Everyone:Was either the clock or compass system copied by others later, and if so where else was it applied?18:50:19 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:Sorry, forgot to unmute 😆18:51:09 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:Do you think Plato was aware of the arrondissements of Paris, which are arranged in a spiral?18:51:12 From Ana Soto-Canino to Everyone:Mr. Hoffeld, thank you. Lovely chart. Just yesterday I learnt of Basil Brown’s endeavors regarding not just archaeological efforts in the late 1930s at Sutton Hoo, but also in gathering data for astronomical charts, and while also trying to make them accessible “to the common man” , as he once supposedly said. Your star chart came to me just in time to literally add color to my findings about B. Brown, all new to me.18:52:17 From Mark Mavroudis to Everyone:Hello everyone. I just wanted to say how much I am enjoying these fascinating presentations. Not a collector or researching - just someone who enjoys looking at maps.18:52:42 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:Thanks, Mark, we are glad you can be here.18:52:46 From Ana Soto-Canino to Everyone:Thank you folks! Lovely gathering. But not it’s the post-lunch-work hours here in NJ USA, so I must leave early. Thank you to all presenters for sharing!18:53:05 From Tom Paper to Everyone:Thanks you, Mark! Loved that map and the "system" of tracking...18:53:16 From Catherine NJ to Everyone:really loving it all. I just love maps 🙂18:53:37 From Tom Paper to Everyone:Laurence - a fascinating map, thank you for sharing...I will be exploring that map further...and also looking for a high res version18:54:21 From Tom Paper to Everyone:Peter - thank you for a great presentation...I wonder if eminent domain is displayed somehow in the map18:54:46 From Tom Paper to Everyone:Marc - thank you for a great presentation...colors are fantastic18:54:49 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:Thanks Ana! Indeed it would be really productive to see what students could do with the iconography and overall idea applied to modern data, maybe different modes of travel.18:55:50 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:Ana: Also worth noting is that the first general maps that included railways were the old plates re-engraved with the new lines, so they had to be distinct from roads, rivers & boundaries.18:56:51 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:Tom: good to hear, I’d love to hear what you discover, ponder or conclude!19:03:23 From Franca Tegliucci to Everyone:This is a real gorgeous map.19:07:08 From Mark Rogers to Everyone:Fantastic detail to this map :)19:12:40 From LARRY ROBBINS to Everyone:Greetings from Auckland New Zealand. Thanks for the opportunity today. Our day is just starting so with reluctance I must leave. I was IMCOS member for many years. Must rejoin! Thanks again.19:12:59 From Mike Sweeting to Everyone:Glad you can join us Larry!19:22:21 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:Please do post any questions you might have here in the chat.19:31:31 From Mark Mavroudis to Everyone:Thank you for sharing all the beautiful maps today.19:37:06 From Flavio Ruzzene to Everyone:Thak you !!!19:37:45 From Flavio Ruzzene to Everyone:Thank you !!!!!19:45:54 From Carey Gordon to Everyone:For Martin van Bauman: What resources do you use translate the place names from those on the map to modern names?19:46:45 From Ramon Sieveking to Everyone:My first virtual experience with IMCoS. It was very interesting. Thank you for sharing your maps with us. Greetings from Germany.19:52:22 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:For Katie: Could you comment on the production (or lack of it) of printed versions of this genre of military map?19:52:56 From Sylvia Sumira to Everyone:§19:53:54 From Sylvia Sumira to Everyone:Accidental symbol typo! Just like to say thank you to everyone for an interesting and varied evening .19:55:26 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:https://militarymaps.rct.uk/eighty-years-war-dutch...19:55:29 From Jay to Everyone:How soon do we get to do this again?19:56:20 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:drsweeting@aol.com19:56:26 From Mark Monmonier to Everyone:Thanks for organizing and orchestrating this session, Mike. Informative and enjoyable.19:56:31 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:Please feel free to contact me at lorp@lorp.org about the Leloup Belgium map19:56:41 From Franca Tegliucci to Everyone:Thanks a lot for your very interesting conference. Thank you for sharing so many beautiful maps.19:56:52 From Catherine NJ to Everyone:thanks so much19:56:54 From Laurence Penney to Everyone:Thanks tons for organizing this, a fine evening.19:56:57 From Mark Rogers to Everyone:Great show and tell thank you :)19:57:39 From Steve Belcher to Everyone:Thanks everyone19:57:50 From Emmie’s iPad to Everyone:Thank you very much19:57:54 From Stephen Nagler to Everyone:Thanks very much to the speakers and organizers!19:57:54 From Marc Hoffeld to Everyone:Thank you !19:58:19 From Mark Monmonier to Everyone:Thanks, Tom.19:58:40 From Flavio Ruzzene to Everyone:Thanks so much20:04:51 From Katherine Parker to Everyone:I have to head off, have a great night everyone!

IMCoS Show & Tell - February 28, 2023

Images for the IMCoS Show & Tell, by Zoom on February 28, 2023. 18:00-20:00 UK time. link Host: Mike Sweeting Presenters: Ed LanfrancoMartin Van BraumanJulian CandianDeirdre BoysMark RogersAndrew KapochunasMark HoskinChuck Ashman