Welcome to the ICA Commission on GeoAI, where Cartography and GIScience Meet Artificial Intelligence
Imagine a world where maps dynamically adapt to your needs. Whether you’re planning a global backpacking trip on a laptop or navigating a bustling city on your smartphone, the map seamlessly adjusts its level of detail, highlighting relevant information while filtering out distracting clutter. This, my friends, is the future of cartography, driven by the exciting convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and geographic information science.
The ICA Commission on GeoAI embraces this revolutionary intersection. We’re a vibrant community of researchers and practitioners, drawing expertise from diverse fields like:
Cartography and Geovisualization: Building the visual bridges that connect data to understanding.
AI and Machine Learning: Developing intelligent algorithms that analyze, interpret, and adapt geographic information.
Spatial Analytics and Big Data: Unlocking the hidden patterns and insights buried within vast datasets.
Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience: Designing intuitive interfaces that seamlessly integrate AI-powered maps into user journeys.
Our mission is nothing less than transforming the way we interact with, explore, and understand the world through maps. We envision a future where:
Maps become dynamic personal assistants, tailoring themselves to individual needs and preferences.
AI acts as a cartographer’s co-pilot, automating tedious tasks and suggesting innovative data representations.
Geovisualization becomes interactive and immersive, fostering deeper engagement and understanding of complex spatial phenomena.
We are not just cartographers. We are explorers, pushing the boundaries of technology to chart new territories in geoinformation visualization. We are problem solvers, tackling the challenges of multi-scale representation and adaptive visualization head-on. And we are collaborators, building bridges between disciplines to unlock the collective power of AI and cartography.
If you share our passion for maps and believe in the power of AI to revolutionize geovisualization, then join us! Our commission welcomes everyone – researchers, practitioners, students, and anyone with a curious mind and a desire to shape the future of maps and mapping.
Together, let’s embark on this exciting journey to redefine cartography for the AI age. Visit our website, get involved in our discussions, and contribute your expertise to shape this transformative field. We look forward to welcoming you to the ICA Commission on GeoAI!
Sam Arundel, U.S. Geological Survey and Wenwen Li, Arizona State University, USA
Terms of Reference
- Define the topics of GeoAI and promote the methods and knowledge of GeoAI among scientists and professionals in cartography, GIScience and related fields.
- Provide an updated, attractive web-portal with information about Commission activities, links to other events, theme-specific knowledge, related web sites and bibliographic information.
- Discuss different issues about the use of GeoAI to extract machine-readable knowledge from maps, guide cartographic map style, symbolization, and design, and improve geovisualization through cartography.
- Develop a workshop series.
- Promote publication activities (proceedings, web-proceedings, journal articles and special issues) and common research activities.