Last Friday, the award ceremony for the Prix Carto of the Swiss Society for Cartography (SSC) took place in Zurich. The Prix Carto is a biennial award for outstanding cartographic work with a relationship to Switzerland.1 This year it has been awarded for the eleventh time.
Three prizes were awarded:
The Prix Carto main prize was awarded to Fabian Lang for his book “Schweizer Bergwelten”.
The Prix Carto Edu prize was awarded to Sachit Mahajan for his R package “greenR” for quantifying urban greenness.
The Prix Carto recognition award was awarded to Aubry Cholleton for his web app “isochrone.ch”.
You can find more information on the Prix Carto and the winning submissions as well as the laudatory speeches by jury members here. The same page also lists winners of previous years.
Footnotes
Transparency note: I have been a member of the Prix Carto jury since 2015 but ended my engagement after this year’s award ceremony.↩︎