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I hold an MSc in Geography, specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. I worked for 9 years as a Lecturer in Cartography at that university and then moved to the International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) in 1997. The ITC was an international school providing courses on GIS and Remote Sensing to students from all around the world, ranging from short courses, through 2 year MSc degree courses, as well as a PhD programmes. Since 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University of Twente. Currently I am Senior Lecturer/Researcher in cartographic visualisation and GIS, in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).

My teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography, Geo-webservices, web application building and Visualisation Pipelines. Furthermore, I supervise MSc theses. I also am coordinator of the thesis semester of the Erasmus Mundus Joined Master in Cartography that UT-ITC runs together with the Technical Universities of Munich, Dresden and Vienna.

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I hold an MSc in Geography, specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. I worked for 9 years as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then moved to the International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) in 1997. Since 2010, the ITC became a Faculty of the University of Twente. Here I am at present Senior Lecturer/Researcher in GIS and cartographic visualisation, in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).

Publications

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2021

Mapping in words: Standardizing cartographic terminology (2021)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 30th International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2021. Coetzee, S., Griffin, A., Köbben, B., Kubicek, P., Harvey, F., Varanka, D. E., Camboim, S. P., Behr, F.-J., Plews, R., Moellering, H. & Midtbo, T.https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-3-54-2021

2020

Epidemics and pandemics in maps: The case of COVID-19 (2020)Journal of maps, 16(1), 144-152. Mocnik, F.-B., Raposo, P., Feringa, W., Kraak, M. & Köbben, B.https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1776646Mapping, Web (2020)In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 333-337). Elsevier. Köbben, B. J. & Kraak, M. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10565-7

2019

29e Internationale Kartografische Conferentie in Tokio, 14-20 juli 2019: Verlag (2019)Geo-info, 2019(5), 46-47. Köbben, B.https://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/publications/2019/ICC_verslag-Geo%20Info%205-2019.pdfCartograaf in de wijde web wereld (2019)Agora, 35(4), 12-15. Köbben, B.https://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/publications/2019/Agora_2019_4_Kobben.pdf

2018

Open educational resources for cartography: the Thematic Mapping Tutor (2018)[Contribution to conference › Paper] Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium (OGRS2018). Köbben, B. J.https://peerj.com/preprints/27203/Towards a Dynamic Isochrone Map: Adding Spatiotemporal Traffic and Population Data (2018)In Progress in Location Based Services 2018 (pp. 195-209) (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography). Springer. van den Berg, J., Köbben, B. J., van der Drift, S. & Wismans, L. J. J.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71470-7_10

2017

Alumni party at the International Cartographic Conference (2017)ITC news, 2017(2), 27-27. Köbben, B. J.https://www.itc.nl/alumni/stay-up-to-date/previous-online-magazines-pdf/itc-news-2017-2-web.pdfGeoFARA : design, development and evaluation of a mobile human geography fieldwork application (2017)[Contribution to conference › Other] 28th International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2017. Wang, X., van Elzakker, C. P. J. M., Kraak, M. J. & Köbben, B. J.http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2017/pres/wang_geo_ppt.pdfGML2GEOJSON: Python Middleware Services for a Web Atlas Integrated in a Spatial Data Infrastructure (2017)Journal of GeoPhyton, 2(1), 7-10. Köbben, B. J.http://www.geopython.net/pub/Journal_of_GeoPython_2_2017.pdfILWIS : een oude (on)bekende (2017)[Contribution to conference › Other] GeoBuzz. Köbben, B. J. & Lemmens, R. L. G.https://github.com/osgeonl/osgeonl.github.io/blob/master/sitecontent/osgeonl_dag/presentaties/2017/08-KobbenLemmens-ILWIS-V2.pdfThe Academic SDI: Towards Understanding Spatial Data Infrastructures for Research and Education. (2017)In Advances in Cartography and GIScience: Selections from the International Cartographic Conference 2017 (pp. 99-113) (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (ICA)). Springer. Coetzee, S., Steiniger, S., Köbben, B. J., Iwaniak, A., Kaczmarek, I., Rapant, P., Cooper, A., Behr, F. J., Schoof, G., Katumba, S., Vatseva, R., Sinvula, K. & Moellering, H.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57336-6_8

Other contributions

Maps & Infographics
Apart from scientific and other papers, in the last few years I have published over 1000 maps & infographics, mainly in the Dutch journal "Geografie". You can find them in this searchable list, with PNG previews ...

Research profiles

My teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and Visualisation Pipelines. Furthermore, I supervise MSc theses. I also am coordinator of the thesis semester of the Erasmus Mundus Joined Master in Cartography that UT-ITC runs together with the Technical Universities of Munich, Dresden and Vienna.

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

I have been involved in various consultancy projects in The Netherlands, India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Namibia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia. For a full list see this page.

Address

University of Twente

Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1303
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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