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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a gathering of map\, history\, art and science love
 rs\, and hear from a superb group of speakers about historic and modern-da
 y maps. Learn more about the California Map Society.\n\nSchedule\n\n10:45a
 m Welcome remarks\n\n10:55am Tom Paper: The Mistakes on Maps: A visually i
 mmersive journey through 20 historical maps\, each featuring a fascinating
  flaw. Were these errors accidents\, ambition\, propaganda or fear of empt
 y space? Along the way\, see how trade\, empire\, faith and imagination be
 nt geography. \n\n11:25am Matthew Nachamkin: Filling in the Blanks: GeoGue
 ssr and the Future of Mapping: Matthew’s fascination with mapping began 
 with a video game\, called GeoGuessr\, which drops you somewhere on Earth 
 using Google Street View and asks a deceptively simple question: where in 
 the world are you? That question\, it turns out\, opens up something much 
 bigger: a window into how the modern world is being mapped\, and what it m
 eans that so many places are only now being seen for the first time. This 
 talk will reveal how AI\, drones\, and Google's camera cars are pushing th
 e boundaries of mapping technology\, reaching places that have never befor
 e appeared on a map\, from remote wilderness to interior spaces. \n\nLunch
  on your own\n\n1:30pm Zoe Dilles: US Federal Land Records Research: The G
 eneral Land Office Records Database (GLO Records) contains thousands of la
 nd records — maps\, surveys\, field notes\, and patents — that documen
 t a multifaceted history of the American West and beyond. Zoe will cover C
 alifornian stories from this rich archive of land title and land use as we
 ll as tips on using this publicly accessible resource.\n\n2:00pm Ed Lanfra
 nco: Forbidden City Cartography: While starting to catalogue his personal 
 collection of Beijing maps in 2025\, Sinologist Edward C. Lanfranco st
 umbled upon a noteworthy subsection of holdings devoted to one particular 
 place: the Chinese capital’s world renowned Palace Museum. This is a fol
 low-up to an essay on the subject published in the May 2026 issue of our m
 agazine\, Calafia.  \n\n2:30pm Jayne Kilander: You Are Here: Transit Carto
 graphy & Spatial Identity: Jayne will discuss the role of transit maps in 
 representing\, impacting\, and imagining the spaces they depict. You Are H
 ere discusses the legitimizing impact of established cartographic language
 s\, the way that mapping can empower or erase communities and imagine new 
 futures for the places we travel to and from. \n\nBreak\n\n3:10pm Josephin
 e Arader: The Shaping of California Through Maps\, 1846–1873: A 27-Year 
 Cartographic Transformation: This presentation examines four maps of Calif
 ornia produced between 1846 and 1873 to illustrate one of the most rapid r
 egional transformations in modern history. In just 27 years\, California s
 hifts from a sparsely mapped northern province of Mexico to a fully survey
 ed and infrastructurally integrated American state. The maps Josephine has
  chosen provide a concise visual record of how quickly a landscape can be 
 redefined when political change\, resource discovery\, and technological e
 xpansion converge.  \n\n3:50pm Keynote: Julie Sweetkind-Singer: Spatial 
 at Stanford: Mapping the Past to get to the Present: Over the past 25 year
 s\, Stanford Libraries has become a leader in providing spatial informatio
 n and technologies to not only the Stanford campus\, but to scholars and t
 he general public around the world. Julie will walk us through this hist
 ory\, from the first grant to scan materials from the Stanford Geological 
 Survey\, to finding hidden map treasures in the basement of the Mitchell E
 arth Sciences building\, scanning unparalleled Bay Area map collections\, 
 building the David Rumsey Map Center\, and creating digital resources\, in
 terfaces\, and tools to expose content and make it easier to use. \n\n4:30
 pm Close\n\n \n\nRegistration\n\nThe event is available to attend in-perso
 n or remotely. Registration is required.
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LOCATION:David Rumsey Map Center (Green Library)
SUMMARY:California Map Society Conference
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/california-map-society-conf
 erence-2026
CATEGORIES:Conference/Symposium
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