Professorship

The Chair of Cartography conducts research in the field of cartographic visualization with a focus on cartographic production technologies for topographic and thematic cartography, atlas cartography (school atlases, national atlases) and interactive web cartography (including geoportals). The Group aims to maintain and expand the leading position of Swiss cartography by further developing existing cartographic knowledge, as well as mining existing analogous and digital geo-data and transferring all of them to new media and fields of application. The main objective of the research is the development of new cartographic information, data management and interaction methods, taking space, time and content into account. Research questions often arise due to a concrete practical need. The results are implemented in user-friendly applications such as the "Atlas of Switzerland – online" or the "Swiss World Atlas", two internationally leading atlas products.