Our range of awards aims to support and showcase better mapping by recognizing the very best cartographic work and scholarship from around the globe. We present trophies and prizes to individuals and organizations who have shown excellence in the cartographic field for work produced within the previous year. Further details can be found online at http://www.cartography.org.uk/awards and in Maplines, the British Cartographic Society’s magazine.
With the COVID-19 global pandemic still impacting our ability to plan an in-person event, the Society was delighted to partner the 2022 conference online with Steer. The conference and awards videos are available to view on The British Cartographic Society’s YouTube channel.
The British Cartographic Society is therefore pleased to announce the results of the 2022 awards as follows:
The British Cartographic Society Award
Winner: Atlas of Shanghai (2021 Version) 上海市地图集（2021版) by Wenqiang Yao, Jing Xin, Chenxi Yu, Meilan Liu, Xi Tang, Min Wang, Xin Luo, Aijun Lu, Qingwei Wang, Ying Jing, Shanghai Surveying and Mapping Institute.
Judges’ comments: ‘A very impressive, lavish work with dozens of beautiful and varied thematic maps of many types, covering a wide range of topics and a huge range of information (sometimes perhaps too much) in imaginative ways. The well-designed maps, infographics, images and other artwork all fit together well, and the excellent packaging ensures this is a complete product’.
British Cartographic Society Peter Jolly Award (New for 2022)
This award is open exclusively to BCS members for any single map or geographic data visualization in printed or digital form.
Winner: A Round with Peter: Mapping a Jolly Life by Kenneth Field
2nd place: Sinaia: Points of Interest in the Center of a Mountain Resort by Oana Candit
3rd place: The Six Rural Rides of William Cobbett by Brendan Whyte
Avenza Award for Electronic Mapping
Winner: Inside Fujairah by S&P Global Commodity Insights
Highly Commended: US Micromobility Trends by Steer
Garsdale Design Award for 3D Mapping
Winner: Tokyo Eat Map by Julian Hoffmann Anton
Highly Commended: Mapping the Blue Ridge Parkway by Daniel Watts
Commended: QE2 – Replica Chart by Peter Bolt
Commended: Map of Caithness (1929 / 2021) by Kirsty Maclean
Commended: Harran University Osmanbey Campus by Halil İbrahim Şenol
Henry Johns Award for the Most Outstanding Paper Published in The Cartographic Journal
Winner: The Effect of Display Pixel Density on the Minimum Legible Size of Fundamental Cartographic Symbols (Volume 58, Number 4, pp. 314–328) by Florian Ledermann of the Technical University of Vienna
Judges’ comments: ‘Thoroughly deserved – an excellent paper that presents a rigorous empirical study of this relevant and timely issue, whose results are especially applicable to the development of digital display technologies’.
Ian Mumford Award for Excellence in Original Cartographic Research by Students
Sadly, we received no entries for 2022.
John C Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping
Winner: Atlas of Shanghai (2021 Version) 上海市地图集（2021 版) by Wenqiang Yao, Jing Xin, Chenxi Yu, Meilan Liu, Xi Tang, Min Wang, Xin Luo, Aijun Lu, Qingwei Wang, Ying Jing, Shanghai Surveying and Mapping Institute
Commended: University Atlas of East China Normal University by East China Normal University
Xi Tang, Shan Li, Shiyuan Xu, Gongzhuo Du, Xiaoyi Zhu, Yongqing Yin, Feiran Sun, Ping Huang, Yinda Zheng, Weimin Yang, Yongxing Sun, Yuming Huang, Yue Zhang, Xueer WU, Meilin Liu, Ziwei Jiang, Yisu Liang, Ziqi Su, Xuli Yang, Zhirui Zhang.
Commended: Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualize Empirical Data by Kenneth Field
OS Award for Excellence in The Application Of Ordnance Survey Data
Winner: Historic Ordnance Survey Mapping (1869–1874) by Scott Lloyd and Jon Dollery
Highly Commended: Pitlochry by Peter Bolt and Jamie Longmuir
Commended: Mishmash: A Mix of Old and New by Zekun Li
Stanfords Award For Printed Mapping
Winner: Atlas of Shanghai (2021 Version) 上海市地图集（2021版) by Wenqiang Yao, Jing Xin, Chenxi Yu, Meilan Liu, Xi Tang, Min Wang, Xin Luo, Aijun Lu, Qingwei Wang, Ying Jing, Shanghai Surveying and Mapping Institute
Highly Commended: Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualize Empirical Data by Kenneth Field
Highly Commended: Atlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput to Gotham City by Matthew Brown (co-author Rhys B. Davis and illustrator Mike Hall)
Highly Commended: Gran Paradiso by 4LAND
Commended: Wind River Range by National Geographic Maps
Commended: Isle of Skye Art Print by Helen Liddle
The next BCS Conference will be an in-person event, so the presentation of the award winners will be part of our 60th Anniversary Conference.
The awards would not be possible without the support the society receives from so many organizations, and of course, the people who enter their cartographic work.