eCARTO News capture 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.
Thinking Outside the Map
- 3 words to save time & money when routing between jobs with RouteXL – what3words.com
- Mapping Countries By Connecting Postal Codes – citylab.com
- Mapping Manhattan’s Parking Tickets by Type of Car – citylab.com
- Mapping out all 1745 GAA pitches in Ireland – joe.ie
- How Does ‘A wrinkle in time’ look on a map? – atlasobscura.com
- Cambridge researcher develops smartphone app to map Swiss-German dialects – eurekalert.org
- This smartphone technology 3-D maps your meal and counts its calories – washington.edu
Digital Mapping – the heat is on!
- Locate this! The battle for app-specific maps – venturebeat.com
- K. Court Takes Google’s Side in Mapping Beef – newsfactor.com
- Apple’s fleet of mapping vans may point to an exciting new iOS 10 feature – bgr.com
- When Online Maps Screw Up—and Hurt Small Businesses – wsj.com
- MWC 2016: Facebook uses AI to map people’s homes – bbc.com
Maps in Science
- Ancient Babylonian astronomers used calculus to find Jupiter 1,400 years before Europeans – abc.net.au
- Dual Camera iPhone 7 Plus Could Offer ‘DSLR-Like’ Quality, 3D Depth Mapping – macrumors.com
- Detailed seafloor gravity map brings the Earth’s surface into sharp focus – gizmag.com
- Drones for research: DePaul University archaeologist to explain UAV use at Fifa – sciencecodex.com
- Can we really trust scientists’ assumptions? – dailyinterlake.com
Behind the Scenes
- Finding related amenity tags on OpenStreetMap – matiasdahl.iki.fi
- Deep Dive into Grid Layout Placement – igalia.com
- A Plethora of Open Data Repositories (i.e., thousands!) – datasciencecentral.com
- The Data Visualisation Catalogue – datavizcatalogue.com
- Open Source Stewardship – gitlab.com
- Processing: A Python Framework for the Seamless Integration of Geoprocessing Tools in QGIS – mdpi.com
- QGIS Python Plugins Repository – qgis.org
- Unsupervised classification of imagery using scikit-learn – jupyter.org
Mapping Opportunities
- The Last Unmapped Places on Earth – bbc.com
- Kiribati looks to artificial islands to save nation from rising sea levels – abc.net.au
- PH has 400 more islands, says mapping agency – inquirer.net
- Mapping Pluto’s ‘broken heart’: Incredible image reveals the dwarf planet’s varied geology in stunning detail – dailymail.co.uk
Digital Conversion
- Osher Map Library at University of Southern Maine digitizes its rare globe collection – pressherald.com
- Blaeu Atlas Maior, 1662-5 – nls.uk
Mapping Applications
- Mapping India’s Electricity Deserts – citylab.com
- Cadcorp announces hosted web mapping service for UK housing associations – directionsmag.com
- Putting Slums on the Map – citylab.com
- Coal Ash Mapping Using Electromagnetic Technology – powermag.com
- What the world’s biggest human migration looks like on a map – cnn.com
- Nuance taps HERE maps to bolster connected car platform – zdnet.com
People in Mapping
- The Godfather of Digital Maps – forbes.com
Cartographic Resources & Education & Opportunities
- Using Humour to Inform – youtube.com
- Geocommons – geocommons.com
- The Space Report Online – thespacereport.org
- Washington Map Society – washmapsociety.org
Technology
- GPS firm Garmin to buy iconic Maine mapmaker DeLorme – bangordailynews.com
- UAV company offers to map UK to prevent future flooding – flightglobal.com
- Google Maps for Android 9.20.1 – techcentral.ie
- Calling 911 From Your Cellphone? Don’t Assume They’ll Know Exactly Where You Are – wbur.org
- Aerial Photography: A bird’s-eye view – dailysabah.com
- goTenna: How to communicate when all else fails – networkworld.com
- Download Central | Google Maps – livemint.com
Industry Insights
- MapQuest: Hyperfocused on the Developer Experience – apigee.com
- Apple Maps vans working overtime to ‘improve Apple Maps’ – digitaltrends.com
- Toyota wants to make Google’s mapping tech obsolete – cnet.com
- Google Maps couldn’t kill TomTom, now it is poised for a driverless future – afr.com
Map Collections and Atlases
- David Rumsey Map Collection – davidrumsey.com
- How a karma-seeking Redditor uncovered one of the world’s rarest atlases – washingtonpost.com
- The Atlases – guerrillacartography.org
- OmniAtlas – omniatlas.com
Mapping the Environment
- Soil mapping may indicate success of brush control method – agrilife.org
- NASA satellites aid ecologists in mapping seasons, deer reproduction – phys.org
- Mapping the Interconnectedness of Canada’s Water – citylab.com
- ‘Citizen scientists’ use drones to map El Nino flooding – phys.org
- Glacial lake drainage in Patagonia (13-8 kyr) and response of the adjacent Pacific Ocean – nature.com
- Poachers using science papers to target newly discovered species – theguardian.com
- Dronepedia – twitter.com
- Ordnance Survey releases digital map of Mars surface – bbc.com
History and Cartography
- Shifting Outlines – champagnewhisky.com
- LOU’S VIEWS: Mapping book and exhibit show where we’ve gone – ibj.com
- This 500-Year-Old Book Revolutionized How We See Cities – fastcodesign.com
- Interactive Map of Belarusian History – letapis.by
- Map trade-in offer – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- A Journey Through Latin American Maps – uchicago.edu
Blogs
- The Map Room – maproomblog.com
- Introducing MapBox Studio – mapbox.com
- OpenStreetMap Carto Complexity – openstreetmap.org
- Library of Congress – Maps – loc.gov
Books
- Vargic’s Miscellany of Curious Maps: Mapping out the Modern World – penguin.com.au
- Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript – facsimilefinder.com
- An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping – sagepub.com
- Sidewalk City – slab.today
A World View through Maps and Imagery
- World City Populations 1950-2030 – luminocity3d.org
- The global effort putting the world’s most vulnerable people on the map – humanosphere.org
- Mapping the Organized Chaos of All of the World’s Subways – citylab.com
- Open Aerial Map – openaerialmap.org
- Earth bathymetry – alteredqualia.com
- 30 Breathtaking Satellite Photos That Will Change How You See Our World – boredpanda.com
- 10 Maps That Will Change How You View The World – iflscience.com
- 360 degree aerial panoramas – airpano.com
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