eCARTO News captures the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.

Publications

• Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams – mountaineers.org
• The Last Empty Places: A Journey Through Blank Spots on the American Map – goodreads.com
• Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean – .ucpress.edu
• Digital Mapping and Indigenous America – routledge.com
• Waterfall Atlas of the United States – mitpressbookstore.mit.edu

Education & Training & Opportunities

• British Cartographic Society 2022-2023 Awards – cartography.org.uk
• New multimedia cartography laboratory opened at University Park – psu.edu

History

• 10th Iberoamerican Symposium on the history of cartography – museohistorico.gub.uy
• Data scientist charts the power, politics, and purpose of mapmaking – news.miami.edul
• Library’s precious atlas charts a course through nation’s history – news.leeds.gov.uk
• Country’s First Cartography Museum Inaugurated In Mussorie – currentaffairs.adda247.com

Built Environment

• Ranked: The Cities with the Best Work-Life Balance in the World – visualcapitalist.com

Just Maps

• 15 maps that are blowing our minds – escape.com.au
• Urban Living – Worldmapper
• Pre-modern Muslim map – NewberryLibrary
• Le grand atlas – sl.nsw.gov.au

Cartophiles

• Cynthia Brewer receives international cartographic association’s highest award – psu.edu
• John Hessler – In conversation with David Rumsey – RumseyInterviewHessler.pdf
• Mapping our Present, Preparing for our Future – theadanews.com
• Mapping to go a different direction: ISU geographer plots to plan a brighter future – news.illinoisstate.edu
• A Love of Maps and a Legacy – lehigh.edu
• Legend has it: See how amateur cartographers are reflecting clients’ stories in maps – hindustantimes.com
• A Guide to ‘Jerry’s Map’ and Creative Cartography – interlochenpublicradio.org
• Dramatic changes revealed in 2023 world map – au.news.yahoo.com

Industry

• Map buried inside your phone reveals where you’ve been and photos you snapped there – foxnews.com

Related

• San Francisco Aerial Views – davidrumsey.com
• NASA releases first U.S. pollution map images from new space instrument – news.yahoo.com
• Tracing the destruction from Maui’s deadly fires – abc.net.au

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.

eCARTO News captures the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.

Opportunities & Publications

• Mapping for a Sustainable World – un-ilibrary.org
• The ArcGis Imagery Book – freecomputerbooks.com
• The Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) – cca-acc.org

Education & Training

• Navigating by touch with 3D maps – geoweeknews.com
• When Art Meets Strategy: Unveiling the Craft of Military Cartography – sofrep.com
• Ordnance Survey reveals top map symbol requests – bbc.com
• Create your maps with IMAGE, our map generator tool – ec.europa.eu

History

• Heritage sites promoted on new Unesco map – bbc.com
• Rare map from the 1500s shows the land before Great Britain was created – msn.com
• John Speed – author of one of the world’s great cartographic treasures – dailyecho.co.uk
• Library’s precious atlas charts a course through nation’s history – news.leeds.gov.uk
• The 1930s: When London Was Really Put On The Map – londonist.com

Nature

• YSE Scientists Make Critical Breakthrough in Mapping Global Methane Emissions from Rivers and Streams – environment.yale.edu
• Mapping hidden meltwater paths in glaciers: importance – miragenews.com

Built Environment

• Paved paradise: Maps show how much of US cities are parking lots – thehill.com
• New Yorkers, how much shade does your street really have? This map will tell you. – gothamist.com

Hot Topics

• Registro de incendios forestales en el mundo – esa.int
• Where extreme heat stifles London’s neighbourhoods most — in maps – cbc.ca
• NCEI Supports Heat Mapping Study in Asheville – ncei.noaa.gov
• Mapping the hottest temperatures around the world – aljazeera.com
• What you need to know about online fire maps – cabinradio.ca
• Introducing powerful new cartographic design tools, including heat maps – felt.com
• CityLAB’s new tree mapping feature calls Berliners towards a greener future – archinect.com

Opinion

• Here’s why the Greenwich Prime Meridian is actually in the wrong place – theconversation.com
• Cómo hacer que los datos ayuden a hacer la normativa de la UE sobre deforestación justa y viable – es.weforum.org
• Geospatial technology could help St. Louis area students map their futures – audacy.com
• A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? – theguardian.com

Industry

• GeoCue’s New Imaging Systems: Powerful Tools for Drone-based Aerial Mapping and Surveying – commercialuavnews.com
• 30 Second Data Viz with OSM GPT – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

Animations

• Animated map reveals the 550,000 miles of cable hidden under the ocean that power the internet – youtube.com

Related

• La Vuelta a Espana 2023 stage-by-stage guide: Route maps and profiles of all 21 days – independent.co.uk
• New map shows Galway Bay in unprecedented stunning detail – galwaydaily.com

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.

eCARTO News captures the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.

Featured

• Cartography Remains Critical in the Digital Mapping Age – esri.com
• Is map-reading a lost art? In an era of GPS, here’s what map fans say we’re losing – cbc.ca
• Data scientist charts the power, politics, and purpose of mapmaking – news.miami.edu
• Maps are the Record of Humans’ Imagination of the World – historynewsnetwork.org
• Copyright and Cartography – copyrightcartography.org

Opportunities & Publications

• The Medieval Map and the Mercy Mission. – thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk
• Here Begins the Dark Sea – simonandschuster.com
• The Cassini Map – The book – conspiration-editions.com
• A detailed land use/land cover map for the European Alps macro region – nature.com
• Swapna Liddle’s new book maps a city – tribuneindia.com
• Copyright and Cartography – bloomsbury.com

Education & Training

• How Maps Work – science.howstuffworks.com
• If you struggle to read maps, you’ll find these readable and attractive – nation.africa
• What if all our maps were wrong? – boatsnews.com
• There is no perfect world map! – boatsnews.com

History

• Ce que les papyrus nous apprennent sur la géographie dans l’Antiquité – theconversation.com
• Most exact version of ‘Daedongyeojido’ map returns from Japan – en.yna.co.kr
• Heritage: Maps for a lost city – dawn.com
• 18th Century York Woman’s Diary Inspires New City Map – miragenews.com

Curious?

• Harrison Richard Edes – David Rumsey
• Charting clarity: Furman researchers see 18th Century maps through different lenses – furman.edu
• New NASA Map Details 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses in the US – solarsystem.nasa.gov
• Celebrate 400 years of moon maps for Apollo 11’s anniversary (gallery) – space.com
• Spatial Map of the Human Intestine Created – technologynetworks.com
• Cosmic Growth Map Backs Einstein’s Gravity Theory – miragenews.com
• People believe this map was created by flat earthers and shows what lies beyond Earth’s ‘ice wall’ – ladbible.com
• Seeing with neutrinos: how astronomers are mapping the cosmos without light – nature.com

Industry

• TZ Maps, a new player in the electronic mapping landscape – boatsnews.com
• Commercial UAV Expo Preview: Ingredients For a Successful Drone Program in Surveying & Mapping – commercialuavnews.com
• Fugro’s seabed mapping supports Norway’s marine resource preservation – hydro-international.com
• Google Maps vs. Apple Maps: Which navigation app is best? – tomsguide.com
• Big Tech coalition challenges Google and Apple’s monopoly on maps – techspot.com
• Overture Maps Foundation Releases First World-Wide Open Map Dataset – geospatialworld.net

3D, Interactive & Animated Mapping

• First results of 3D mapping Nessebar’s ancient town revealed – gim-international.com
• Interactive map shows which US cities will be underwater in 2050 – news10.com
• 3D Mapping and Modeling Market to grow at a CAGR of 15.24% from 2022 to 2027 prnewswire.com
• Navigating by touch with 3D maps – geoweeknews.com

Innovation

• MIT’s Senseable City Lab Maps Cities In Motion – indiaeducationdiary.in
• 3 Questions: Honing robot perception and mapping – miragenews.com

Hot Topics

• Tracking Heat Across the World – nytimes.com
• Fire map breaks down the location and intensity of every nearby fire – khq.com
• Imperial researcher awarded £1m for magma-mapping project – imperial.ac.uk
• FY-4A Satellite Boosts Solar Mapping in China with AI – miragenews.com
• Google Maps: This free tool shows a heat map of where you’ve been – pcworld.com

Nature

• Global map of wildlife trade reveals true cost to the planet – nature.com
• The Amazon River in the Sky – Nautilus

Imagery

• Scroll through the universe with a new interactive map – phys.org

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.

eCARTO News captures the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.

Opportunities & Publications

• Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship – loc.gov
• British Cartographic Society 60^th Anniversary – eventbrite.co.uk
• Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps – Brill
• Mapping for a sustainable world – digitallibrary.un.org
• Here Begins the Dark Sea – pegasusbooks.com

Ancient Maps

• A map of how Romans saw the world – reddit.com
• L’ hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terresaustrales – loc.gov
• Sud Polar Karte – twitter.com
• Image 2 of Susŏnchŏndo – loc.gov
• Monsoon & trade wind chart of the Indian Ocean – loc.gov
• The countries round the North Pole – digitalcollections.nypl.org
• Map of the Crown Prince Islands, Disco [sic] Bay, Greenland – loc.gov
• Karte von der KôraischenHalbinsel (Kôraïvl. Tsjo-Sjön) nach einem japanischen originale – loc.gov
• Spanish Armada maps go on display in Portsmouth – bbc.com
• First results of 3D mapping Nessebar’s ancient town revealed – gim-international.com

Country Specific & World

• Italy – behance.ne
• 3D Map of Ukraine – behance.net
• Dramatic changes revealed in 2023 world map – au.news.yahoo.com
• The World’s Population in 3D – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

Curious?

• The Nile is the world’s longest river? The Amazon would like a word. – washingtonpost.com
• The Kessler Syndrome – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• AI Street View Hallucinations – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Creepy map hidden inside your phone tracks where you’ve been and the pics you snapped – mirror.co.uk
• Where is the Titanic wreck on a map? Return route process, Google map co-ordinates and more explored – sportskeeda.com
• What maps can tell about history – dnews.com
• Is map-reading a lost art? – cbc.ca
• Copying out maps – welcome to learning in the mid-1800s – cravenherald.co.uk
• Time Travel Street View – timetravel-streetview.glitch.me
• Maps in comics – washingtonpost.com
• Explore the World with Shadows – ooglemapsmania.blogspot.com

Just Maps

• A Bird’s Eye View of America – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Eine Deutschlandkarte mit “wahren” – etymologisch korrekten Namen – imgur.com
• Embroidered ‘West Australia’ tablecloth – collection.maas.museum

Transport

• Flight Radar – flightradar24
• Map of the Week: Roads of the World – ubique.americangeo.org
• Google Maps: Exploring the World in 3D with Street View – nnn.ng

Themed

• The Map of Roman Amphitheaters – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Global Sunlight Chart – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Mapping cities in motion – miragenews.com

Software and Apps

• MapLibre – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Reprojector – hanshack.com

The Environment

• Mapping Connecticut’s Understory from Outer Space – miragenews.com
• Mapping hidden meltwater paths in glaciers: importance – miragenews.com

Imagery

• Beautiful Banc d’Arguin National Park – earthobservatory.nasa.gov
• Staring at the Moon – googlemapsmania
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope Reveals New Dark Matter Map – miragenews.com
• Next-generation underwater lidar technology aims to map the ocean floor in remarkable detail – sciencex.com
• HotSat-1: Spacecraft to map UK’s heat inefficient buildings – bbc.com

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.

eCARTO News captures the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.

Featured

• Virginia’s Deaf Communities: A Spatial Story – deaflibva.org

Cartouche & Sea Monsters & Symbols

• Cartouches, or Decorative Map Titles – davidrumsey.com
• Map of the world showing Drake’s voyage – collection.sl.nsw.gov.au
• Alexander de Lavaux, “Algemeene Kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname,” after 1758 – jcblibrary.org
• The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps – ocean.si.edu
• Signs of the times: Ordnance Survey to consult on new map symbols – theguardian.com

Artificial Intelligence & Search Engines

• AI Map Search Finds Atlantis – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Map shows each country’s DREAM job based on Google search data – businessinsider.com
• Diving Deeper: How AI is helping to map the way Western Australia protects its sea floor – news.microsoft.com

Industry News

• Google Maps is expanding Immersive View to routes – engadget.com
• What map app is the best on Apple Carplay and Android Auto? – drive.com.au
• 3D geospatial company partners with Google Maps Platform – geospatialworld.net

Just Maps

• Worldwide Golf Courses – reddit.com
• Indonesia 1943 – loc.gov
• Maps of You (and Everyone You Know) – blogs.loc.gov
• A map of submarine cables connecting British Empire in 1902 – eddit.com
• Mapping a Mughal City – accartbooks.com
• Distance from the coast in Denmark – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• First Nations of Australia Map – wildwoodmaps.com

Projections & Panoramas & 3D

• Scandinavian Airlines System Spiral Polar Projection  reddit.com
• How curved is Chile? – reddit.com
• Panoramic map of the Caucasus – ericknightmaps.net
• Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country – loc.gov
• Cosmic Growth Map Backs Einstein’s Gravity Theory – miragenews.com
• Mapping reception of latitude and longitude in early modern China – miragenews.com
• First results of 3D mapping Nessebar’s ancient town revealed – gim-international.com

Transport

• The Rise & Fall of the Irish Railway – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

Collectives

• Washington Map Society – washmapsociety.org

The Environment

• Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2022 – svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
• Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability – zacklabe.com
• Mapping the World’s Highest Mountains, By Continent – visualcapitalist.com
• Discovering the Gulf Stream – divediscover.whoi.edu
• Nigerian Navy joins global mission to map the ocean floor – hydro-international.com
• Eyesea and Mapbox improve ocean pollution mapping capabilities – seatrade-maritime.com

Related

• Mapping Long-term Land Use Change with Remote Sensing Data – gislounge.com
• Mapping Tornado Tracks with Satellite Data – gislounge.com
• The First Images from EUMETSAT MTG-I1 – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope Reveals New Dark Matter Map – miragenews.com

You Can’t Be Serious

• 30 Of The Weirdest And Most Interesting Geography Facts You Probably Didn’t Know – boredpanda.com
• Hilarious Terrible Maps – farandwide.com
• Flat Earther accidently proves Earth is round – indy100.com

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.