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Norfolk Conference Videos!

All videos from NACIS 2018 in Norfolk are now available on our YouTube channel – Click below to access all three days worth of quality cartographic content!

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Natural Earth

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

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Atlas of Design

A distillation of some of the best modern cartography from around the world. Volumes 1-3 are available as reprints, Volume 4 is sold out, and we are preparing for Volume 5 in 2020.

Annual Meeting 2019

Love maps, data, visual storytelling, and cartographic design? Make your plans now to participate in the annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society in Tacoma.

Do you #lovemaps? Welcome home.

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is an enjoyable society of map enthusiasts. We have yearly meetings and we work on a variety of projects and publications which promote map making. We hope you’ll drop by and be a part of our collegial community.

NACIS was founded in 1980 and is comprised of specialists from private, academic, and government organizations along with people whose common interest lies in facilitating communication in the map information community.

The meeting starts in:

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Atlas of design

A published gallery of beautiful and inspiring maps from around the world.

Student map and poster competition

Students who’d like to display their works at our Annual Meeting should register for the Student Map and Poster Competition.

Student dynamic map competition

Collections of the best examples of dynamic mapping in cartography.

Map gallery

Show off your work in our annual Map Gallery!

Corlis Benefideo award

A NACIS award recognizing imaginative cartography and the perspective it brings to the field.

Call for maps

Enter your maps in the map gallery or one of our student competitions!