The Societat Catalana de Geografia invites you to play to Geographic quiz (Geoquiz). Show your knowledge in the area of Geopraphy and get our prize. Day: 23 of February of 2016 Hour: 16:00 Place: Facultat de Geografia i Història. Universitat de Barcelona. Free activity. Information and enrolement: scg@iec.cat
The Fundación Juan Negrín will restore of cartographic material of the person that was Defense Ministre during the years of Spanish Civil War. This material is compound by hundred of war and campain maps, mainly of the Battle of Ebro. They are maps elaborated by Sección de Operaciones del Ejército Republicano that show the distribution of troops and position of different fronts. Painted by ink, […]
Manuel Madrid García, professor of Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, will impart this Friday a webimar about georeference of Ancient Cartography with the free software gvSIG. The webimar, titled “Georeferenciación de cartografía histórica con gvSIG”, will take place at 11:00 UTC (look at here for timetable sinchrony depending on the area) and it can be followed […]
The GEODE Laboratory (UMR 5602 CNRS) organises in October of 2016, 12-14, an International Colloquium in Toulouse (Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Maison de la Recherche) whose core idea is «geohistory of environment and landscape». It will be done a special mention to contributions related to geohistoric perspectives applied to areas of natural risk (inundations, […]
The Llibreria de la Diputació is pleased to invite you to the 14th colloquium “Parlem de…”, colloquium´s cycle where current issues of local worls are discussed, opened to citizens. In this occasion the publication that will be presented is El mapa com a eina de govern: centenari de la creació dels serveis geogràfic i geològic […]
VII Meeting IBERCARTO: The management of map libraries in an interconnected world Dates: 29 and 30 september 2016 The meeting is organized with the European Congress of geographic data INSPIRE . The day 29 session will be at the Palacio de Congresos de Barcelona and the day 30 session will be in the Cartographic and […]
At the site of Molí of Salt, in the municipality of Vimbodí i Poblet, it has found a plate of schist with engravings that have been interpreted by archaeologists Marcos García-Díez (University of the Basque Country) and Manuel Vaquero (University Rovira i Virgili ) as a schematic representation of a Paleolithic settlement of hunters and […]
Within its strategy of digitization of collections, the British Library has recently announced that it will scan and publish on the Internet the Atlas Klencke. The Atlas Klencke is considered one of the world’s largest, measuring 176 x 231 cm open and consists of about 40 wall maps of the golden age of Dutch cartography in […]
From December 17, 2015 to March 27, 2016 at the Naval Museum (Madrid) you can visit the exhibition entitled “Masters of the Sea Lords of the World. History of the Spanish Nautical Charting “. It is a sample of the Spanish contribution to the discovery and geographical knowledge of the planet, through its nautical charting, […]
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