Of the participants
1. Persons or institutions of any of the Member States of the PASIGH
may participate
Of the works
2. The works must be presented by a National Section of a Member State
of the PAIGH.
3. The works must be sent to the National Section where the corresponding
Consultative Meeting will be held.
4. In the case of an atlas, maps, cartographic series or digital cartographic
products, they must include documents that describe the methodology
employed for their generation, these being the basis for the jury's
evaluation.
5. Only original works will be accepted, re-editions may not be submitted
for the prize. In any case, the date of publication must fall within
the period between the prior General Assembly and the current one.
6. The works submitted for evaluation must be completed only by persons
or institutions of member countries of the PAIGH, regardless of the
topic, when and only that falls within the areas of the Cartography
Commission.
Of the form of presentation and deadline for submission
7. The National Section of the PAIGH must present the work via a document
sent to the President of the Cartography Commission, with copy to the
General Secretariat of the PAIGH.
8. To award the prize, the jury will take into account that stipulated
in Article 29 of the Financial Regulation in relation to the payment
of quotas.
9. Three (3) published copies of the work must be sent to the National
Section where the Consultative Meeting is to be held with at least a
month's notice before that meeting.
10. The materials submitted will not be returned to authors; the General
Secretariat will dispose of them.
Of the prize
11. The prize to be awarded, following the resolution of the jury,
shall consist of: a Diploma and a Medal, that will be presented by the
President of the PAIGH to the author(s) of the work or a representative
of the winning institution, during the Closing Session of the Consultative
Meeting. In the case that the winner is absent from the meeting the
said prize will be presented to the Head of the Delegation of the country
to which he/she belongs.
12. If the characteristics of the work permit it, the winning work
will be published in the Revista Cartográfica, with the prior
approval of the Editor.
13. On the basis of the quality of the works or the absence of the
same, the jury may declare the competition null and void.
Of the jury
14. The jury will consist of the President of the Cartography Commission
of the PAIGH, the national Cartography member of the National Section
where the Assembly General is to be held, and three delegates accredited
to Member States present.
15. The jury will be presided over by the President of the Cartography
Commission who, in the case of a tie, shall have the deciding vote.
16. In the case of a work being submitted for the prize by a country
that has a representative on the jury, the Consultative Meeting shall
elect a new delegate, to substitute. In the case of the President of
the Cartography Commission being thus impeded to act, the order of precedence
established by the Consultative Meeting will be taken into account.
17. The three delegates accredited by Member States shall preferably
be from countries different from the authors of works and shall be elected
during the first plenary session of the Consultative Meeting.
18. The decision of the jury is final and may not be appealed.
19. For those works that do no win the prize, and that have not been
published, they will be evaluated to consider them for inclusion in
an issue of the Revista Cartográfica.
20. The elements to be considered in the evaluations for the prize
will be:
- Currency and clarity of the concepts employed
- Independence from specific makes of equipment and commercial software
for their use
- Methodological and technological development
- Real possibilities for use and implementation in Member States
- Originality of the work
- Scientific or technical rigor, and theoretic bases
