Report of the Fifth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas

Summary

This report records the Fifth UN Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas, held in New York on 11–15 January 1993, covering national mapping programmes, digital databases, GIS and technology transfer. The UN Secretariat urged renewed national and regional atlas production using accessible electronic formats that could be reproduced and revised quickly; Japan proposed global maps to record environmental changes. Conference resolutions recommended access to publicly funded geographic data without restriction and at minimal cost, alongside training and technical assistance for developing countries.