Reports of ICA Commissions: Atlases

Summary

In Leipzig, the ICA Commissions on Atlases and the History of Cartography and the Joint IGU/ICA group on toponymy organized a seminar on historical maps, atlases, and place names. Seventeen papers addressed place names in atlases, cartographic place-name research, and names on old maps, prompting cross-disciplinary discussion. The report states that proceedings were planned for open-access publication in the forum IfL series.