2nd CartoAI Workshop 2025 @ AGILE

In recent years, the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the field of cartography has been truly inspiring. AI technology has demonstrated immense potential in areas such as map generalization, automated map-making, map design, user interaction, and many more. With these advancements, cartography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation.

Following a successful CartoAI Workshop in 2023, this workshop seeks to gather the researchers working on AI techniques applied to cartography. For this workshop, contributions on all AI-related techniques are welcome. The workshop will give the participants the opportunity to give short presentations on recent and ongoing research. It also includes a keynote and time for discussions.

The following topics are welcome:

• Novel deep-learning techniques applied to maps or cartographic data
• AI techniques for map generalization, map schematization, text placement
• Pattern recognition in maps
• Cartographic style transfer
• AI techniques for map vectorization and map label interpretation
• Large language model for map interaction
• Evaluation of AI techniques and results
• Review of AI studies in cartography
• Explainable AI (XAI) for AI in Cartography

Submission

You are invited to submit a 2-page abstract, following the general guidelines of the ICA conference abstracts. The proceedings of the workshop will be published on the website of the ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation.

Abstracts should be submitted to EasyChair. Please click “New Submission” to open the new page of “New Submission for AGILE 2025 (2nd Workshop on CartoAI: AI for Cartography)”.

Important Dates

• Deadline for submission: 31 March 2025 09 April 2025
• Notification to authors: 27 April 2025 30 April 2025
• Date of the workshop: 10 June 2025

Workshop Program

(14:00–18:00 - 10 June 2025)

14:00–14:10 — Greeting & Opening

Speaker: Yu Feng

14:10–15:00 — 🔑 Keynote

Topic: Algorithmic Data Analytics for Cartography
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jan-Henrik Haunert
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn, Germany

15:00–16:00 — Session 1: Cartography Meets LLMs

Chair: Zhiyong Zhou (10 min talk + 5 min Q&A each)

1. This is a map of ‘Jardin Lecoq’ - Analyzing map descriptions from LLMs
   Guillaume Touya, Jérémy Kalsron, Laura Wenclik and Quentin Potié (abstract)

2. From Geospatial Data to Narrative: A GIS-LLM Pipeline for Generating Personalised Outdoor Route Descriptions
   Ilya Ilyankou, James Haworth, Tao Cheng and Stefano Cavazzi (abstract)

3. Exploring the Use of XAI for Automated Generation of Map Descriptions with Language Models
   Güren Tan Dinga and Jochen Schiewe (abstract)

4. Geovisualization in the Age of Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges
   Mengyi Wei, Nianhua Liu and Yu Feng (abstract)

16:00–16:30 — 📸 Group Photo & ☕ Break

16:30–16:40 — Introduction: ICA GeoAI Commission

Speaker: Raimund Schnürer (10min)

16:40–17:40 — Session 2: Map-making in the AI Era

Chair: Güren Tan Dinga (10 min talk + 5 min Q&A each)

1. Exploring Map Design Embedding Space: A Case Study of MapLayNet for Map Layout Recommendation
   Jian Yang, Cheng Chen, Chenyu Zuo, Fenli Jia and Guangxia Wang (abstract)

2. Line Displacement using Siamese LSTM Autoencoder
   Pia Wolffram, Julius Tóth and Dirk Burghardt (abstract)

3. Exploring Methods for Map Vectorization of Historical Maps
   Anastasios Kesidis, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Seraphim Alvanides and Andreas Tsatsaris (abstract)

4. Identification of Generalization Rules Using a Hierarchical GNN
   Karel Stanek (abstract)

17:40–17:50 — 📍 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Guillaume Touya

Organizers

• Yu Feng, Technical University of Munich, Germany (y.feng@tum.de)
• Güren Tan Dinga, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany (gueren.dinga@hcu-hamburg.de)
• Guillaume Touya, IGN, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, France (guillaume.touya@ign.fr)
• Zhiyong Zhou, University of Zurich, Switzerland (zhiyong.zhou@geo.uzh.ch)

Program Committee

• Cheng Fu, China Agricultural University, China
• Yuhao Kang, University of Texas at Austin, United States
• Quentin Potié, IGN, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, France
• Jochen Schiewe, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany
• Monika Sester, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

The workshop is endorsed by the ICA (International Cartographic Association) Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation and the DGfK (German Cartographic Society) Commission on Cartography and Artificial Intelligence.