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.
New to Cartography
- New cartographic resources website for the Pacific Islands – powerofmaps.org.au
- New Mission – “Making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all” – geoforall.org
- New Australian National Map Competition – sssi.org.au
Feature
- Visualising disparities between countries on maps – maps.arcgis.com
- Every map you’ve ever seen of Africa is right – aljazeera.com
- Is Africa bigger than North America? – ocks.org
- Where Europe Shrinks, and Where it Grows – bigthink.com
- Mapping the U.S. by Property Value Instead of Land Area – citylab.com
- Thematic Cartography Guide – github.io
- This brilliant map re-sizes each state proportionally to the size of its economy – businessinsider.com.au
- When Maps Lie – citylab.com
- Take Care of your Choropleth Maps – vis4.net
Mapping Applications
- Thematic Mapping for Disaster Risk Assessment in Case of Earthquake – fig.net
- World map of difference between solar time and clock time – imgur.com
- WW2 shipwrecks map – google.com.au
- Two Views from the Top of the World – esri.com
- Mapping Everywhere Fossils Have Been Found in the U.S. – citylab.com
- Mapping the U.S. by Property Value Instead of Land Area – citylab.com
- Mapping the Global Population – pewglobal.org
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes – slate.com
- Avion comercial derribado en Ucrania – elmundo.es
Cartographic Visualization
- How people engage with data visualisations and why it matters – cilip.org.uk
- Digital Planning and 3D Visualisation – urbancircus.com.au
- Creating Smart 3D City Models with Esri CityEngine – youtube.com
- Anthropocene Worlds – viewsoftheworld.net
- World at war: Global refugee trends – viewsoftheworld.net
- Waterloo animation – telegraph.co.uk
- Hand drawn map of Norwegian Fjords – twitter.com
- Chronoglyph: A time lapse drawing – youtube.com
- Symbolic – abc.net.au
- 4D Mapper – 4dmapper.com/
- 3D-Printed Landform Models – cartographicperspectives.org
- Volcano cluster thought to be 50 million years old accidentally discovered off coast of Sydney – abc.net.au
- Oculus Rift: Virtual reality headset device sees new opportunities for software engineers, filmmakers – abc.net.au
- Pluto comes into focus – abc.net.au
- Mesmerizing Map Of Global Aerosol Pollution – brilliantmaps.com
Cartographic Resources & Education
- Create maps online: A comparison of 6 webmap providers – digital-geography.com
- 5 Google Maps Tutorials for Teachers and Students – freetech4teacherscom
- Clever Use of Maps in Website Design – designmodo.com
- The History of Cartography – uchicago.edu
- Cartography and GeoVisualization – bcit.ca
- Cartography – Calendar of Meetings and Events – earthlink.net
- Interactive Data Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications, Second Edition from CRC Press – newtechreview.com
- Infinite Atlas | Harvard Digital Humanities – slideshare.net
- Celebrating 400 Years of Women in Cartography – bellerbyandco.com
- Make Maps People Want to Look At – esri.com
- Scottish Maps Forum – nls.uk
- New World Atlas – slidesharecdn.com
- International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage – dch2015.net
- Create thematic maps, publish and share – tagonmap.com
- Sketching with Data Opens the Mind’s Eye – nationalgeographic.com
- There’s a Map on My Lap! – seussville.com
- The colour of sound – abc.net.au
Theory
- Atlases – scholar.google.com
- Cartographic animation – scholar.google.com
- Cartographic generalisation – scholar.google.com
- Cartographic production – scholar.google.com
- Cartography – scholar.google.com
- GeoInformation – scholar.google.com
- LIDAR – scholar.google.com
- Location-based services – scholar.google.com
- Map design – scholar.google.com
- Mapping – scholar.google.com
- Map use and usability – scholar.google.com
- Mobile cartography – scholar.google.com
- NeoCartography – scholar.google.com
- Open source geospatial technologies – scholar.google.com
- Planetary – scholar.google.com
- Spatial Sciences – scholar.google.com
- Ubiquitous cartography – scholar.google.com
- Visualization – scholar.google.com
Opinion
- Who Owns the Digital Map of the World? – citylab.com
- Paper Maps Refuse to Die in the Digital Age – gislounge.com
- Paper Maps Are Old School. Time to Upgrade to This. – outsideonline.com
- You might prefer this unofficial tube map to the original – timeout.com
- ‘Sedated by software’: No one knows how to read maps anymore, experts say – mashable.com
- Neocartography Can Be Beautiful, Cartography Can Be Fast – gislounge.com
- Web Map Portals Must Die – mangomap.com
- The Hollow Earth – aetherforce.com
- The Flat Earth Society – theflatearthsociety.org
Cartography for Transport and Location
- The 9th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology – mmt2015.org
- Audi, BMW and Daimler Near Deal to Buy Nokia Mapping Service – wsj.com
- Think tank set sights on GPS monitoring for containerised cargo – railexpress.com.au
- Watch This 3D Animated Timeline Of How The Tube Map Developed – londonist.com
- Historical Map: Polish Airlines LOT Route Map, 1939 – transitmaps.tumblr.com
- Cómo funciona Swarm, la nueva geolocalización social – gersonbeltran.com
- City-sized portions of Open Street Map – mapzen.com
The Guises of Cartographers in 2015
- GIS Systems Specialist – Facilities – indeed.com
- GIS Programmer – indeed.com
- Toponymist/Linguist/Geonames Specialist (TS/SCI Required) – indeed.com
- Geographic Information Systems Technician – indeed.com
- Librarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning – indeed.com
- Map Product Engineer – indeed.com
- Department Cartographer – indeed.com
- Geospatial Analyst – indeed.com
- GIS Technician – indeed.com
Cartography and Language
- UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger – unesco.org
- A world of languages – newtechreview.com
- Metaphor map charts the images that structure our thinking – theguardian.com
- Mapping the world’s linguistic diversity—scientists discover links between your genes and the language you speak – phys.org
Guidance for Map Collections
- Helpful Hints for Small Map Collections – ala.org
- Electronic Maps and GIS – ala.org
- Metadata Primer for Map Librarians – ala.org
- Map, GIS and Cataloging/ Metadata Librarian Core Competencies – ala.org
- Map Collection Security Guidelines – ala.org
- GIS in Every Library – ala.org
- There’s a Map for That! – ala.org
- Volunteered Geographic Information. Selected Web Resources – ala.org
- Cartographic Citations: A Style Guide, Second Edition – ala.org
- RDA and Cartographic Resources – ala.org
Paper maps
- Collecting Guide: Maps – christies.com
- Old Maps Online – jisc.ac.uk
- Researchers Decipher the Map That May Have Guided Columbus Westward – hyperallergic.com
- Manuscript maps – dur.ac.uk
- The Art of Cartography – manuscriptmaps.com
- Caelins Chronicle – caelinschronicle.com
- Hand-drawn pictorial maps – imgur.com
- Shaded relief archive – shadedreliefarchive.com
- Top Ten – radicalcartography.net
- Peutinger map: seamless whole, in color, with overlaid layers – atlantides.org
- Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers – wired.com
- The Globe Maker – bellerbyandco.com
Alternative Cartography
- Paula Scher – Philadelphia Explained – etapes.com
- A fictional map on wood – instagram.com
- Argotopolis, The Map Of London Slang – spitalfieldslife.com
- Globe orange – martinroller.com
- Sub-marine cable taps – lifewinning.com
- Du Monde Futon – target.com
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