Our book “Thematic Cartography for the Society” was one of the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in the relevant Springer eBook Collection in 2015. The Springer official report can be download here.

The workshop on the new Geographic Information Body of Knowledge (GI-BoK) is organised as part of the GI-N2K project; it is addressed at researchers and teachers in the academic or private area, at human resources professionals in the GI industry or at everybody interested in geographic information. Participants will have the possibility to test the GI-BoK using worked examples and case studies. The GI-BoK workshop will take place on Thursday, 1st of September, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Read about the workshop in more detail.

Тhe winner of the ISDE video competition entitled “Towards a One-World Vision for the Blue Planet” was announced during the 9th International symposium on Digital Earth in Halifax, Canada, 5-9 October (more information here!).

Kristina Kehayova – a student, specializing Cartography at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia and her excellent work “Digital Earth – Explore the World Today” got the top 1 position. As a reward, she is awarded the opportunity to participate in the International Symposium on Earth Observation for Maritime Silk Road in Sanya this November.

You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsmiTZ-2hrM

Bulgaria awarded at the Barbara Petchenik Children’s World Map Competitions! The awarded drawing is made by Aleksandra Garkova, 5 years old from Burgas, Bulgaria. Congratulations to the author!