Pista ng Mapa 2020 Map & Poster Making Contest

About the contest

Let’s make our year mappy! Everyone is encouraged to join the map & poster making competition of this year’s Pista ng Mapa – the premier open mapping conference in the Philippines. Through this contest, we want to showcase the resilience and creativity of our map makers in telling stories and conveying information through free and open mapping.

Theme

This year’s theme is Mapa Para sa Lahat.

We are encouraging everyone to submit their best cartographic work to the competition. The maps can have different subjects, forms and styles and we leave it to the map makers to choose the story they want to tell, information they want to convey, or questions they want to answer through their maps. However, each entry must contain the following elements:

• Clarity of purpose - the purpose of your map must immediately be understandable by your audience.
• Usability - you must be explicit in telling your audience how to navigate your map and how to interpret it.
• Whose interest does the map serve - what are the values and desires that you are weaving into your cartographic work.

Categories

The competition will have 2 categories.

• Static Maps
  • A digital map or poster
  • Images of a physical map that was hand-made or printed
• Interactive Maps
  • A webpage that tells a data story through an interactive map
  • A dashboard that visualizes data spatially
  • A platform that displays spatial data

Submissions must be an original work

Who may join

• The competition is open to all and everyone is free to join. There will be TWO TRACKS where winners will be selected: one for Students and another for Professionals / Non-students. Students include those pursuing post-graduate (MS, PhD) studies and must be currently enrolled. Participants submitting under the Student track must also provide proof of enrollment.
• Maps, cartographic research posters, and other displays of cartography-related work qualify as long as they have not yet been submitted to or they have not won a prior related competition.
• The submission must be an original work.

Criteria

The entries will be judged according to the following criteria:

Prize

There will be four (4) winners – one per category (Static and Interactive) for each participant group (Students and Professional/Non-students). The winners will receive PhP 10,000.00 worth of online education/learning credits. The prize is also convertible to cash but is non-transferable.

The winners will have reserved slots in Pista ng Mapa as speakers in the lightning talk or show-and-tell sessions where they can talk about their map to the community.

Schedule

Submission Requirements

Static Maps

• A compressed folder of the map image file/s (JPEG,PNG)
• Minimum resolution of 300 dpi
• 100 word writeup about the map
• A short writeup about how the map was made. This should give the readers an idea on how to make this map themselves (learning experience)
  • Github link Readme.md (if applicable)
• Data Sources
• List of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) used, if applicable
• Short bio of map maker/s

Interactive Maps

• Link to interactive map (URL or website)
• Overview poster of the interactive map / screenshot (JPEG,PNG)
• Minimum resolution of 300 dpi
• 100 word writeup about the map
• A short writeup about how the map was made. This should give the readers an idea on how to make this map themselves (learning experience)
  • Github link Readme.md (if applicable)
  • Source code, if applicable
• Data Sources
• List of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) used, if applicable
• Short bio of map maker/s

Entries must be submitted on or before October 10, 2020. By submitting your works, you ensure organizers that the submission is an original work and has not been submitted and won in a previous similar competition.

Other information

The map maker is accountable for any issues that may arise with regard to the originality and authenticity of the design. Please contact pistangmapa@gmail.com if you have any questions.