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.
Industry News
- Coast Survey’s Certification Programme in Nautical Cartography Approved – hydro-international.com
- Occipital’s Bridge Headset for iPhones Has Magical Spatial Mapping Abilities – mixed.reality.news
- Google Maps Supercharges Location Sharing, Begins Drooling Over Your Data – wired.com
- DroneDeploy integrates with agX on UAV mapping flights – gpsworld.com
- World first geospatial mapping – for nearly every building, nearly every little detail – thefifthestate.com.au
- Google Maps removes one of its most popular features – thesun.co.uk
- what3words Extends Middle East Presence with the Launch of Addressing System in Arabic – directionsmag.com
Mapping Projects
- Interactive City Guide of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia – addismap.com
- A Better Way to Map Humanity’s Spread Around the Earth – citylab.com
- New map aims to make cycling around London much easier – metro.co.uk
- Mapping biodiversity – newindianexpress.com
- Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals – newscientist.com
- High-tech mapping, robots and drones aid Cyclone Debbie crop response – freshfruitportal.com
- Drones are revolutionising dinosaur research by mapping massive footprints – mashable.com
- Mapping Contagion – bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com
- The Graphic Designer Who Maps The World’s Cities By Smell – newyorker.com
- Scientists develop first global Internet Atlas – indianexpress.com
- Walk the city: New illustrated maps of Asia’s oldest neighbourhoods feature art by local creatives – coconuts.co
ICA Facebook Posts
- Geography isn’t sacred in the playful world of pictorial maps – nationalgeographic.com.au
- The Antarctic Projection – 3develop.nl
- After The Map – afterthemap.info
- Mapping Melbourne – tenplay.com.au
- Portable Laser Range Finder Enables Real-Time 3-D Mapping – scientificamerican.com
- All Roads Lead To Rome – bigthink.com
- This map of the world by currency is stunning – indy100.com
- The Adorable Maps Today’s Cartographers Made as Kids – nationalgeographic.com
- Map Projections – axismaps.com
- Mapping The Future – bbc.com
- Maps That Show Us Who We Are – ted.com
- The Evolution Of Maps – techdigg.com
- The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World – atlasobscura.com
- What is Geographic Information Systems – gisgeography.com
- The Hidden Meaning of Maps – pickmeuptonic.wordpress.com
- The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids – theawl.com
- GPS Accuracy: HDOP, PDOP, GDOP, Multipath & the Atmosphere – gisgeography.com
- Five Maps That Explain The Arctic – gisgeography.com
Opinion
- Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion – theguardian.com
- How 4D mapping could change the way we live and work – marketwatch.com
- There’s a Big Problem With Uber’s Heralded Mapping Technology – inverse.com
- How Government’s Data Can Be Truly Useable – govtech.com
- How Do We Map The Earth’s Gravity? – forbes.com
- Grayson Perry “response” to Mappa Mundi questions heaven’s existence while featuring obscene language – herefordtimes.com
- Who Drew The First Geological Map? – forbes.com
- The world is changing; shouldn’t our maps? – star2.com
Just Maps
- Swiss map – map.geo.admin.ch
- European Tribes documented by the Romans and the Greeks (1st Century BC-AD) – openpics.aerobatic.io
- Every Plane Flight in the World Over One Year – metrocosm.com
History
- The Spies Who Mapped Great Swathes of South Asia by Foot – atlasobscura.com
- Comparing 1862 London To Modern London – londonist.com
- How Maps Became Deadly Innovations in WWI – news.nationalgeographic.com
- Birds-Eye View from Summit Mt. Washington (ca. 1905). OS-1902-45 – oshermaps.org
Cartographic Resources and Events
- Space, Time and Identity – spatiality.temporality.irf-network.org
- The Nine Lives of John Ogilby – theguardian.com
- The Atlas of Ancient Rome – press.princeton.edu
- 2017 CCA Conference – cca-acc.org
- Introduction to Digital Cartography and Mapping Tools – josic.com
- What is the International Date Line? – thesuperfins.com
- All the timezones of the world without a basemap – instagram.com
Cartographers
- Why Cartographer Jobs Are Still Relevant in the 21st Century – gisgeography.com
- Prof. Dr. Philippe De Maeyer receives the Sarton Medal – ugent.be
- Prof. Dr. Philippe De Maeyer receives Tianshan Award – ugent.be
- The stories maps tell – thehindu.com
On a Lighter Note
- Typography – glasbergen.com
- USA – Distance to the nearest McDonalds – i0.wp.com
- Fantasy maps of the real world – maproomblog.com
- Oxford street cleaner creating 3D maps for driverless cars – bbc.com
Imagery
- Locating hotspot biomass could accelerate sector growth – canadianbiomassmagazine.ca
- Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to ten metres – sciencedaily.com
- A seismic mapping milestone – sciencedaily.com
- The UK’s most dramatic landscapes as you’ve never seen them before – telegraph.co.uk
- EPFL photo-mapping project reveals 1960s Switzerland – thelocal.ch
- The Ultimate Photo Map of the 1906 San Francisco Quake – citylab.com
- Data project provides a wider view of homelessness — and offers solutions – mashable.com
- Facebook’s new developer SDK lets users capture 360 photos and videos in-app – venturebeat.com
- Google Earth’s new feature shows lost civilisations from space – abc.net.au
- The dark side of Earth: Nasa releases the clearest images yet of our glittering planet at night – dailymail.co.uk
- Antarctica as you’ve never seen it before: Stunning 3D ice map made up of 250 million satellite readings reveals the continent’s jagged surface – dailymail.co.uk
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