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2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition Gallery

Award Winners and Honorable Mentions
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Best in Show, Winner, Professional Map Competition (Interactive/Digital): The Atlas of Ungulate Migration by Kauffman, M., S. Albeke, M. Atallah, M. Boyers, F. Cagnacci, S. Chamaille-Jammes, J. Fugate, I. Freeman, J. Gage, M. Hebblewhite, G. Hopcraft, W. Kirkpatrick, J. Merkle, J. Merson, T. Mueller, S. Mumme, A. Mysterud, C. Nobbe, W. Peters, E. Steiner, A. Steingisser, editors. (Bavarian State Institute of Forestry; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Fondazione Edmund Mach; Gage Cartographics; Senckenberg Nature Research Society; University of Glasgow; University of Oregon, InfoGraphics Lab; University of Wyoming, Wyoming Migration Initiative)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Student Map Competition (David Woodward Digital Map Award): Vision Zero: Helsinki's Journey to Zero Traffic Deaths by Eugenie Huang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner, Professional Map Competition (Thematic): How Penguins Spread Out by Matthew W. Chwastyk (National Geographic Magazine)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Student Map Competition (Arthur Robinson Print Map Award): Pollinator Pathways in Easttown Township by Julia Byrnes (Geographics Lab, Penn State University)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Thematic): MSGBC Basin's rising potential in hydrocarbon production by Joel Conti, Melenie Yuen, Gabriela Maximov, S&P Global Energy Content Design (S&P Global Energy)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Student Map Competition (David Woodward Digital Map Award): Narrative Tourism E-Map of Suzhou by Ziqi Pei, Juan Xiang (School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University; Urban Computing and Visualization Lab)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Recreation/Travel): Appalachian Trail by David Lambert, Jeremy Goldsmith, Christopher Knoll, Alison DeGraff Ollivierre, Tracy Pollock, Arielle Alferez (National Geographic Maps)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner, Student Map Competition (David Woodward Digital Map Award): Climate Visualized by Atlas Guo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner, Student Map Competition (Arthur Robinson Print Map Award): Walking with Ghosts by Deanne Watts (Centre of Geographic Sciences, Nova Scotia Community College)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Thematic): Have We Been Measuring Mountains All Wrong? by Soren Walljasper, Courtney Beesch, Eduardo Velez (National Geographic Magazine)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Student Map Competition (David Woodward Digital Map Award): Follow Your Flush: Where does Toronto's wastewater go? by Pravar Joshi (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Book/Atlas): Yangtze River Delta Integration Atlas by Gang ZENG, Xi TANG, Xianzhong CAO, Feiran SUN, Zhenzhen YI, Linfang WU, Wenbo CAI, Jinliao HE, De HU, Qingling SHI, Yanjiao SONG, Tangwei TENG, Yue ZHANG, Nina ZHU, Yiwen ZHU (China Modern Urban Research Centre, & Institute of Cartography, East China Normal University)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Interactive/Digital): What is the Tallest Mountain on Earth by Soren Walljasper, Courtney Beesch, Eduardo Velez (National Geographic)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner, Professional Map Competition (Other): The Physical World by Daniel P. Huffman (somethingaboutmaps)
Honorable Mention, Student Map Competition (David Woodward Digital Map Award)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Reference): The Coldest Cold War Post by Matthew W. Chwastyk (National Geographic Magazine)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Interactive/Digital): A River's Reach: Water and balance in the Yampa-White-Green Basin by Anna Riling, Lauren Brown (Four corners Mapping, LV Brown Studio)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Interactive/Digital): Dance of the continents by Warren Davison, Allen Carroll, Gustavo Cardenas (Esri)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Student Map Competition (Arthur Robinson Print Map Award): Scenic Yosemite National Park by Atlas Guo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Reference): Caspian oil and gas: Adapting to a new reality by Joel Conti Melenie Yuen, Natalia Sleta, S&P Global Energy Content Design (S&P Global Energy)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Thematic): American Barbecue Map by Joseph Veazey (Veazey Studio)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner, Professional Map Competition (Recreation/Travel): Tour du Mont Blanc by David Lambert, Eric Janota, Christopher Knoll, Jeremy Goldsmith, National Geographic Maps; Maria Grazia Quaglia, geo4map (National Geographic Maps)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Student Map Competition (Arthur Robinson Print Map Award): Colorful Guizhou Atlas by Wenlong ZHENG, Xi WANG, Xiaoling LI, Chenlu NING, Yujia ZHOU, and Chixu SONG: (Instructors: Shiliang SU, Min WENG, and Mengjun KANG) (School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Reference): Miinoong/Isle Royale by Daniel. P. Huffman (somethingaboutmaps)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Other): How to Make a Math Map by Natalie Teboul (Traveling Miss T.) (NBTutors, LLC)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Professional Map Competition (Reference): South Central Montana by Will Robertson (Basin and Range Mapping)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner, Professional Map Competition (Reference): The Essential Geography of Vancouver Island by Jeff Clark (Clark Geomatics)
2025 CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner, Student Map Competition (Arthur Robinson Print Map Award): What We Heard Around Zhonghua Gate: A Soundmap by Haiyue Lu, Yuqi Dong, Yixuan Jia and Bing Han (Nanjing Normal University)

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