Awards
One of the aims of the Society is to encourage better mapping, by providing medals and prizes to individuals or companies who have shown excellence in this field. The annual BCS awards includes categories such as:
- Stanfords Award for printed mapping
- Avenza Award for electronic mapping
- John C. Bartholomew Award for small scale mapping
- OS MasterMap Award for 'Better Mapping'
- BCS Award for best entry of the year
- The Society medal for distinguished contribution to cartography
- The Henry Johns Award for the best cartographic journal article
- The National Geographic Society New Mapmaker Award for those starting out in cartographic or related industries
New MapMaker Award Winners:- 2001: Laura Stewart, University of Edinburgh Can Geographical Information Systems be used to Propose Areas for Storage of Floodwater?
- 2002: Edward Merritt, Oxford Brookes University An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Paraline Diagrams for Mapping the Urban Environment
- 2003: Esme Farewell, Oxford Brookes University Cambridge for Children
- 2004: Donna Watkin, Oxford Brookes University Modern cartographic methods as a key to understanding land use in Drayton St Leonards: 1793 - 2003
- 2005: Shannon Brassard, Centre of Geographic Sciences, Nova Scotia Community College, CanadaPrince Albert: Celebrating 100 Years
- 2006: Paul A Light, COGS, Canada National Parks & Historic Sites of Western Newfoundland and Labrador
- 2007: Alexander Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University An Analysis of the Cartographic Language of European State Topographic Maps: Aesthetics, Style and Identity
- 2008: Wesley Jones (NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences, Canada)Dry Belt, Settlement and Abandonment of Southeast Alberta and Southwest Saskatchewan, 1908 to 1926
- 2009: Christoph Hoesli, Institute of Geography at the University of Bern (Switzerland)Southern Sudan Topographic Base Map Series: Map Sheet E - Eastern Equatorial
- 2010: Michael Graves, Kingston University Road to the World Cup South Africa 2010)
- UKHO Junior Mapmaker Award to encourage map making at primary and secondary school level (run every other year from 2008)
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