FIG Working Week 2020 Amsterdam History Day

The FIG Working Week has been cancelled. This is not a decision we have taken lightly and there are two overriding concerns that have caused us to make this decision at this time.

First, the Dutch Government announced new measurements to control the COVID-19 outbreak. In the Netherlands all gatherings are prohibited until 1 June.

Second, our primary concern is always the wellbeing of you, and we would not take on the responsibility, during these times, to bring so many surveyors from all over the world together.

Date: Wednesday 13 May 2020 from 13.30-17.30 at RAI Convention Center

Crazy about history? Don't miss this event, where the FIG Permanent Institution of History of Surveying will highlight the achievements of surveyors, the evolution of knowledge and methodology of measuring, as well as the development of surveying instrumentation.

To the End of the Earth: Dutch World Discovery Across the Water!

International Institution for the History of Surveying and Measurement is a Permanent Institution within the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), and in corporation with Free University of Amsterdam and Hollandse Cirkel, they have organised an afternoon of history.

The afternoon of history is part of programme of the FIG Working Week, however you can also join just these two sessions of history. Crazy about history? Please register here.

Principal Chairman - John Brock

SESSION ONE - Chairman Chris Williams-Wynn

14.00-15:30

Jan de Graeve (Belgium):
Official Opening and Keynote Address on Mapping/Surveying History

John Brock (Australia):
Dutch Discoveries Across the Water: the First Real Maps of New Holland from 1606!

Roel Nicolai (Netherlands):
Medieval Portolan Charts, a Geodetic and Historical Mystery

Jenny Whittal (South Africa):
Historical Surveying Talk on The Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope: Land Rights and Mapping

15.30-16.00

Afternoon Break

SESSION TWO - Chairman Jan De Graeve