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Welcome to NACIS 2015 in Minneapolis! This is the annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). The theme for this year’s meeting is Mapping Interactions. See the schedule below and go to the NACIS website for more details.

The North American Cartographic Information Society, founded in 1980, is an organization comprised of specialists from private, academic, and government organizations whose common interest lies in facilitating communication in the map information community.

For those of you who were unable to attend the conference, or who couldn’t clone themselves to be at multiple talks at once, many slides are linked in the session descriptions below. Twin Cities local Kitty Hurley also put together this fantastic document summarizing much of what she saw at the meeting, so if slide decks aren’t linked, check out her notes. 
Friday, October 16 • 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Banquet with the return of Pecha Kucha

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Pecha Kucha Presenters: 

Maps as Visual Copy
Ian Muehlenhaus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6eNFfrqTU 

U Got the Look: Fonts on Album Covers by Prince
Elaine Guidero, Penn State University 
https://speakerdeck.com/nacis/elaine-guidero  

Street Name Themes
Dennis McClendon, Chicago Cartographics
https://speakerdeck.com/nacis/dennis-street-names

Iran's Amazing Art, Architecture, and Antiquities - and an occasional map
Barbara Harrison, Tom Harrison Maps 
https://speakerdeck.com/nacis/barbara-iran-art-aesthetics-maps 

The American Geographical Society Library: Beyond the Atlas Obscura Article
Marcy Bidney, AGS Library
https://speakerdeck.com/nacis/marcy-bidney-american-geographic-society-library

The Regional Mobility Corridor Atlas v2 – the end of a printed format
Matthew Hampton, Oregon Metro
https://t.co/WkzhDSbqm3 

Trust the Surveyor About As Far As You Can Throw Him
Nat Case, InCase LLC
https://speakerdeck.com/nacis/nat-case-trust-the-surveyor-as-far-as-you-can-throw-him 

The Name Game: Mapping Toponyms
Leo Dillon, US State Department
https://speakerdeck.com/nacis/leo-dillon-toponyms 


Moderators
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Amy Griffin

NACIS Vice President, UNSW Canberra
I am the current NACIS vice-president and a co-organizer of NACIS 2015 in Minneapolis, which also happens to be my hometown.  I live near and work in Canberra, Australia at UNSW Canberra, a major Australian research university. I'm also currently the co-Chair of the ICA Commission... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 6:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Great Hall 225 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55401

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