The Advances in Cartography and GIScience of the International Cartographic Association (Advances of the ICA) contain selected full-paper scientific contributions of ICA conferences and workshops, reviewed in a single-blind peer review. The series was newly established in 2017. The Advances of the ICA are open-access publications; they are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License and the authors retain the copyright.
The Advances in Cartography and GIScience of the International Cartographic Association are a continuation of the Proceedings series (published by Springer) that commenced in 2011 (Paris).
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