Call for Papers for the Special Issue of "Towards Map Design" of "Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information".

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At present, map design is helping human beings to continuously innovate production and lifestyles in a ubiquitous situation, and is playing an increasingly significant role in promoting the process of Chinese modernization and dominating the global narrative discourse. In particular, with the successful holding of the first "Xinghu Cup" map design competition in Wuhan University, the attention and enthusiasm of the academics, the industry and the public for map design have been unprecedentedly high.

After more than half a century of exploration and development, map design has gradually developed into an emerging interdisciplinary discipline that integrates a variety of academic wisdom. As a discipline with strong practical attributes, map design is too much to accumulate and summarize experience at the practical level, and the lack of underlying rationality makes it difficult to effectively establish discipline legitimacy, discipline systematization and discipline system. In this context, it is urgent to establish a relatively independent knowledge system, theoretical logic and research paradigm of map design. This is a core issue that is directly related to the top-level architecture of map design.

Special issue on "Towards Map Design".

The unique nature of map design determines the establishment of its discipline system, which is rooted in the summary and condensation of a large number of practices in history and reality on the one hand, and from the rational analysis of the origin, attributes and values of the discipline on the other hand.

In view of this, the special issue of "Towards Map Design" returns to the background of map design, explores the advantages of map design in theory and practice, as well as the uniqueness of the vision of understanding the world with this advantage, forms a clear theoretical concept and system framework of map design, promotes the close integration of theory and practice, promotes map design to the forefront of the development agenda of map science, and meets the needs of social progress, cultural inheritance and human development with more open knowledge production and discourse creation.

01··· Thesis topic selection

The scope of the call for papers includes but is not limited to the following:

1. Theoretical exploration and contention

· Exploring the Theoretical Origins of Map Design

· Basic theories of map design

· A research paradigm in map design

· Methodology of Map Design

· The value orientation of map design

2. Map design in engineering practice

· Narrative, emotional, and humanistic turns in map design

· Cartography of the body, matter, and ontological turn

· Experience, participation, and interactive transformation of map design

· Map Design and Territorial Spatial Governance

· Localization and internationalization of map design

· The intelligent technical path of map design

3. Discipline construction of map design

The historical path and future direction of the construction of map design in China

· An exploratory strategy for the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese cartography design

· The new pattern of global culture and the new mission of China's map design

02··· Call for Papers:

1. The manuscript should be an original paper that has not been published, and meet the requirements of the manuscript format specification of "Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information". In particular, basic research papers with a high degree of theory, as well as applied research papers that summarize the practical experience of major projects, are welcome.

2. Deadline for collection of manuscripts: December 31, 2024.

03··· Submission

1. Please submit your paper to the official website (http://chdlxx.whu.edu.cn/homeNav?lang=zh) of "Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information", and select the column "Towards Map Design" when submitting.

2. This special issue is planned to be published in the second half of 2025.

04··· Contributor to the special issue

Shiliang Su, Ph.D., is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University. His research interests are geospatiotemporal modeling and visualization. The research results have been applied to the territorial spatial planning, comprehensive statistical analysis of geographical conditions and the compilation of large-scale atlases in more than 20 provinces and municipalities in mainland China. He has participated in the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, the first prize of the Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress Award, the gold medal of the "Pei Xiu Award" for excellent map works, and the Best 3D Map Award of the British Cartographic Society. He has been selected as a Young Scholar of the National Major Talent Program, a Young Top-notch Talent in Hubei Province, a Clarivate Global Highly Cited Scholar, and an Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar.

Min Yang, Ph.D., is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University. His research interests are map spatial cognition and intelligent mapping. The research results are applied to the fields of national natural resources survey data processing, multi-scale map mapping in overseas areas, etc. He participated in 2 first prizes for surveying and mapping science and technology progress, and won the special prize of the National GIS Young Teacher Lecture Competition in Colleges and Universities. He is the secretary-general of the Employment Guidance Working Committee of the China Geographic Information Industry Association, a member of the Map Synthesis and Multi-scale Expression Working Group of the International Cartographic Association, a member of the Intelligent Surveying and Mapping Working Committee of the China Society of Surveying and Mapping, and was selected as a top young talent in Hubei Province.

05··· Special Issue Contact

Mengjun Kang, Ph.D., is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University. His research interests include new media maps and spatial information visualization. The research results have been widely used in aviation airborne electronic map system equipment, national geographical name and address census and large-scale public welfare/commercial electronic map. He has participated in the JoM Global Best Map Award, the first prize of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress Award, and the gold medal of the "Pei Xiu Award" for excellent map works. He served as the Secretary-General of the Map Working Committee of the China Geographic Information Industry Association.

06··· About the journal

"Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information" is an engineering and technical journal in the field of surveying and mapping that is supervised by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and sponsored by Wuhan University. Founded in 1976, it was formerly known as "Surveying and Mapping Data", "Surveying and Mapping Technology", and "Surveying and Mapping Information and Engineering", and was officially renamed "Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information" in 2012.

Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information is a source journal of China Science Citation Database (CSCD) and a core journal of science and technology in China. National Excellent Journal of Surveying and Mapping, Excellent Science and Technology Journal of Chinese Universities, Excellent Journal of Hubei Province; Hubei Province Professional and Technical Excellent Boutique Journal; Journals are included in the Russian Journal of Abstracts (AJ), the United States Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), the British Scientific Abstracts (SA), the Netherlands Abstracts and Citation Database (Scopus), the Netherlands GeoBase and other databases. The main readers are practitioners, scientific researchers, and teachers and students of colleges and universities in related majors in the surveying, mapping and geographic information industry.

Since its inception in 1976, the journal has strictly implemented its purpose, strictly controlled the academic quality and editing quality, paid attention to the characteristics of the discipline, actively explored the way of lasting development, and strived to become a high-quality surveying and mapping journal that leads the academic trend in the field of surveying and mapping, displays the latest developments and research results, and promotes academic development.

First trial: Zhang Lin review: Song Qifan

Final Judge: Jin Jun

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