Nadia H. Panchaud

Dr. Sc. ETH Zürich | Geom. ETH Ing.

Product Owner at Axon Vibe (2022 - present)

Previously Technical Consultant & Team Leader and previously Project Engineer at Hexagon Geospatial,
HxGN Schweiz AG (2018 - 2021)

Previously Doctoral candidate at Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation,
ETH Zurich (2013-2017)



About me

What started as a geographer's journey, then took a turn towards cartography and urban planning. I finally figured out I liked drawing and coloring plans and maps. My feet then took me into the wonderful and ever-changing world of web cartography and mapping. I also like to wander on the open data and open source trails. During my doctoral studies, I was conducting research in cartographic functionality for non-expert users on geoportals. It involved creating smart functions that help creating more beautiful maps on the geoportal as well as opening cartographic knowledge. Furthermore, I also taught graduate courses in web mapping that included theory, hands-on exercises, and semester projects.
Afterwards I provided Web-GIS solutions to clients in the area of Transportation and Infrastructure Asset Management at Hexagon Schweiz AG.
I am currently working on mobile applications for smart mobilty at Axon Vibe as a Product Owner
I am passionate about open (geo)data, openstreetmap and beautiful maps (old and new, on paper and online).

Interests

Cartography   |   Web Mapping   |   Smart Cartographic Symbolization   |   Geoportal Technologies   |   Open Data   |   Transportation

Contact

GitHub   |   Twitter   |   LinkedIn   |   ORCID   |   ResearchGate

Publications & Conferences

Publications

Smart Cartographic Background Symbolization for Map Mashups in Geoportals: A Proof of Concept by Example of Landuse Representation.
Panchaud, N.H., L. Hurni (2018).
The Cartographic Journal. doi:10.1080/00087041.2017.1414019.

Integrating Cartographic Knowledge Within a Geoportal: Interactions and Feedback in the User Interface
Panchaud, N.H., L. Hurni (2018).
Cartographic Perspectives 89: 5-24. doi:10.14714/CP89.1402.

Smart Cartographic Functionality for Improving Data Visualization in Map Mashups.
Panchaud, N.H., I. Iosifescu Enescu, L. Hurni (2017).
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 52 (2):194-211. doi:10.3138/cart.52.2.4115.

The wheel of design: assessing and refining the usability of geoportals.
Kellenberger B, I. Iosifescu Enescu, R. Nicola, C.M. Iosifescu Enescu, N.H. Panchaud, R. Walt, M. Hotea, A. Piguet, and L. Hurni (2016).
International Journal of Cartography 2(1):95-112. doi:10.1080/23729333.2016.1184552

Hypercube-Based Visualization Architecture for Web-Based Environmental Geospatial Information Systems.
Iosifescu Enescu, I., Vassilios Vescoukis, C. M. Iosifescu Enescu, Fabian Müller, N. H. Panchaud, and L. Hurni (2015).
The Cartographical Journal 52(2): 137-148. doi:0.1080/00087041.2015.1119469

Towards Better WMS Maps Through the Use of the Styled Layer Descriptor and Cartographic Conflict Resolution for Linear Features.
Iosifescu Enescu, I., N. H. Panchaud, Magnus Heitzler, C. M. Iosifescu Enescu, and L. Hurni (2015).
The Cartographical Journal 52(2):125-136. doi:10.1080/00087041.2015.1119468

A 3D Indoor Routing Service with 2D Visualization Based on the Multi-Layered Space-Event Model.
Donaubauer, A., F. Straub, N. Panchaud, C. Vessaz (2013).
In: J. M. Krisp (Ed.) Progress in Location-based Services. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 453-469. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34203-5_25

Conference Proceedings

Cartographic Expertise for User Maps in Online Geoportals.
Panchaud, N. H. and L. Hurni (2017).
Proceeding of the 28th International Cartographic Conference. Washington DC, USA, 2-7 July.

Sharing Cartographic Knowledge with the Crowd: on the Complexity of Cartographic Rules.
Panchaud, N. H., I. Iosifescu Enescu, L. Hurni (2015).
Proceeding of the 27th International Cartographic Conference. Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 23-28 August. [link]

A decade of geoinformation sharing at ETH Zurich.
Iosifescu-Enescu, I., C. Iosifescu-Enescu, N. H. Panchaud, A. Tsorlini, L. Hurni (2015).
Proceedings of a pre-conference workshop of the 27th International Cartographic Conference:Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015).Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 20-21 August.

Roadmap to open geodata in Romania.
Ilie, C. M., N. H. Panchaud (2015).
Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformation Conference for Europe 2015 (FOSS4G Europe 2015). Como, Italy, July 14-27. [link]

Definition of a Cartographic Visualization Model for smart cartographic symbolization in an open geoportal.
Panchaud, N. H., I. Iosifescu, L. Hurni (2014).
Proceedings of the AutoCarto 2014 Conference. Pittsburgh (PA) USA, October 6-8.

Open Source Technologies for Integrating Environmental Data in an Online GIS Platform for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research.
Iosifescu Enescu, I., C. M. Iosifescu Enescu, and N. Panchaud (2014).
Proceedings of the AutoCarto 2014 Conference. Pittsburgh (PA) USA, October 6-8.

Service Driven 3D Atlas Cartography.
Panchaud, N., I. Iosifescu, R. Eichenberger, R. Sieber, L. Hurni (2013).
Proceeding of the 26th International Cartographic Conference. Dresden, Germany, 25-30 August. [link]

Advances in Web Service-driven Cartography.
Iosifescu, I., C. Iosifescu, N. Panchaud, R. Eichenberger, R. Sieber, L. Hurni (2013).
Proceeding of the 26th International Cartographic Conference. Dresden, Germany, 25-30 August. [link]

Adding Value to FOSS4G through FOSS4G: An Overview of on Open Source Geodata in General and Open Street Map Data in particular.
Panchaud, N., I. Iosifescu, C. Iosifescu, L. Hurni (2013).
Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformation Conference for Central and Eastern Europe 2013 (FOSS4G-CEE 2013). Bucharest, Romania, June 18-20.

Transition of the GeoVITe Project from Proprietary to Open-Source Software.
Iosifescu-Enescu, C., I. Iosifescu-Enescu, N. Panchaud, L. Hurni (2013).
Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformation Conference for Central and Eastern Europe 2013 (FOSS4G-CEE 2013). Bucharest, Romania, June 18-20.

Cartography with QGIS Server and Extended SDL/SE.
Iosifescu, I., C. Iosifescu, N. Panchaud, L. Hurni (2013).
Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformation Conference for Central and Eastern Europe 2013 (FOSS4G-CEE 2013). Bucharest, Romania, June 18-20.

Workshops

Integrating semantic-based functions for user-generated maps in geoportals.
Panchaud, N. H. and Lorenz Hurni (2016).
Workshop at the AGILE 2016 Conference. Helsinki, Finland, June 14-17.

Using OpenStreetMap Data for Geoidea.ro: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Crowdsourcing for Geospatial Data.
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Sharing Geospatial Data Workshop 2013. Bern, Switzerland, October 30 - November 1.

Teaching

Semester Title Responsibilities
Spring Semester 2017 Multimedia Cartography lecture and supervision
Autumn Semester 2016 Cartography III lecture on Web Map Services and service-side Technologies
Spring Semester 2016 Multimedia Cartography lecture and exercises
Autumn Semester 2015 Cartography III lecture and excercises on Web Map Services and service-side Technologies
Spring Semester 2015 Multimedia Cartography management, lectures and exercises
Spring Semester 2015 CAS RIS Module:From GIS Data to Interactive Web Maps organization, lectures and exercises
Autumn Semester 2014 Cartography III lecture on Data Sources, Open Data, and Copyrights and Licensing Models
Spring Semester 2014 Multimedia Cartography organization, lectures and exercises
Spring Semester 2013 Multimedia Cartography exercises
Spring Semester 2013 CAS RIS Module:From GIS Data to Interactive Web Maps lectures and exercises
Spring Semester 2013 Masterprojektarbeit Supervision of Master project work

Portfolio

GEOIDEA.RO The Geoportal

The GEOIDEA.RO project was the base of my doctoral research. It aimed at improving the scientific basis for open geodata model adoption in Romania. This project is co-financed by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union via the Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Programme.

  • GEodata Open Initiative for Development and Economic Advancement in Romania
  • 2013 - 2015
  • More Info: website
City Street Network

A friend of mine really liked the îlots urbains and asked for something similar. I ended up with a bi-colored street network map. Metropoles work really well for this kind of design. Each city has thus a unique "streetprint".

  • OpenStreetMap data
  • November 2016
Fridge Magnets

The Swiss Society of Cartography organized a christmas market stand selling only map-related products. With some colleagues we made use of old prints of the Swiss World Atlas to create unique fridge magnets.

  • Thanks to Aline and Mirjam for the fun craft afternoons
  • November 2016
Indian Convicts

As part of a seminar entitled "People on the Move: Migration, Assimilation and Diasporas in Modern History (1750 - 2000)", I realized the following map on the flux of convicts sent to penal colonies during the 18th-19th centuries in the British Indian Empire.

Îlots urbains

Using OpenStreetMap data (roads and coastlines), I turned city plans into modern and colorful images for decoration purposes. I followed the very-well done tutorial from Maxime Résibois

  • Affoltern Am Albis, Switzerland: linien canvas
  • Lausanne, Switzerland: custom smartphone cover
  • Toyko, Japan: A0 poster
OSGEoLab

I am part of the OSGeoLab at ETHZ and some colleagues and I prepared an interactive map to show the partner labs around the world on our project website. We used Leaflet and data from the official website.

  • 2013-2017
GEOIDEA.RO The Geoportal Lite

With the GEOIDEA.RO project, we are providing all the data from the geoportal as WMS as well. This Geoportal Lite exemplify the use of our web services with third party libraries, here Leaflet. The code repository for this project is public.

GeoHackathon Dec 5, 2015

Based on the GEOIDEA.RO Geoportal Lite, I built a small web map illustrating archeological sites and museums along the Danube (within a 3km buffer) that can be subjected to flooding. This activity took palce during a hackathon and on an original idea from Nicolaie Constantinescu.