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.
ICA Facebook Posts
- Map Construction – Visual Hierarchy and Layout – amtait.github.io
- Twelve Maps That Changed The world – theatlantic.com
Maps – Specific Themes
- Most Commonly Used Currency Unit Names Around The World – merchantmachine.co.uk
- Explore the Secret Lives of Animals With These Marvelous Maps – smithsonianmag.com
- The European Diaspora: European Ancestry Worldwide – brilliantmaps.com
- World Divided Into 4 Regions With The Same GDP – merchantmachine.co.uk
- World age structure in 2015 – geostata.com
- Daily smokers of cigarettes in Europe – geostata.com
- Submarine Cable Map – submarinecablemap.com
Cartographic Resources
- Map Construction – Visual Hierarchy and Layout – amtait.github.io
- This is an example of a Carto graph in Authorea – authorea.com
- Cartographica – utpjournals.press
- Maps of the Battleground of Gallipoli (Gelibolu) and the Daranelles – A Turkish View – eastviewpress.com
- A Top 10 List of Useful Geospatial Data Portals – spatialreserves.wordpress.com
- Everything is related to everything else – scoop.it
- The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World – nature.com
Opinion
- Electronic Cartography Market to Witness Comprehensive Growth by 2026 – findmarketresearch.org
- Cartographers, Rejoice! Rising Ocean Levels Are On Track To Turn Australia Into An Easy-To-Draw Rhombus – clickhole.com
- Distance Decay: How Far Are You Willing to Travel? – gisgeography.com
- Beyond the GPS, Mapping Every Place, Everywhere – nytimes.com
- What is the difference between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality? – geospatialworld.net
- How Maps are Powering the Tech Revolution – bbc.com
- Your Next Job: Map The Streets For Self-driving Cars – wired.com
- What’s at stake in the most important Supreme Court case of the year – qz.com
Cartographic Miscellanea
- GIS and Cartography Quotes – gislounge.com
- A Pyramid Map of the World’s Biomes – bigthink.com
- Lego world map – dirks-blog.tumblr.com
- What if the largest countries had the biggest populations – openpics.aerobatic.io
- Satellite Photos Reveal Hidden Alphabet on Earth’s Surface – news.nationalgeographic.com
Cartography and Society
- When Cartography Meets Disaster Relief – citylab.com
- Stanford senior wins international award for research on 19th-century cholera maps – news.stanford.edu
- Group issues Jakarta’s integrated transit map – thejakartapost.com
- The Crowdsourced Maps Guiding Puerto Rico’s Recovery – wired.com
People into Cartography
- Exploding the map – soundcloud.com
- Aileen Buckley: Maps that Inform, Engage, and Inspire – youtube.com
- Top cartographer and SASDI stalwart retires – ee.co.za
- Master of Geography: Al-Idrisi Changed How The World Was Perceived – mvslim.com
- This 20-Year-Old Designs Some of the Internet’s Best Maps – inverse.com
Fringe Thinking
- Nearly every country on Earth is named after one of these four things – msn.com
- Review: In ‘Lonely Planet,’ Mismatched Friends and an Unnamed Plague – nytimes.com
- These Are the Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented – news.nationalgeographic.com
History through maps
- An accurate view of ancient Pompeii – openpics.aerobatic.io
- Rare 1950s Braille globe designed by Queensland inventor to be digitised for new generation – abc.net.au
- The Evolution, Applications and Implications of Strip Format Travel Map – geovista.psu.edu
- 1643 Map of Paraiba and Rio Grande do Norte – reddit.com
- Lava Map of Mount Vesuvius – earthlymission.com
- Great Britain – Her Natural & Industrial Resources – i.imgur.com
- The map of the world according to Posidonius 1st c. BCE – peopleofar.com
- New Orleans – news.tulane.edu
Cartography Beyond The Land
- Navigational Maps of the Five Arctic Seas will be Reissued, According to the Results of the OIS “Admiral Vladimirsky” Expedition – maritimeherald.com
- Cartography of the Cosmos – sciencedaily.com
Opportunity
- PhD Fellowship Scheme – polyu.edu.hk
A n Eclectic Collection of Maps
- All The Land In Our Solar System
- Forest Cover Density Across The United States
- Star Trek Map Of The Alpha & Beta Quadrants
- Most Commonly Used Currency Unit Names Around The World
- Would You Feel Comfortable If Your Child Was In A Relationship With X?
- A Hurricane By Any Other Name: What Tropical Cyclones Are Called Around The World
- Legal Status of Jews By European Country Around 1500
- Palestine’s West Bank Archipelago
- The Mediterranean Swapped With Scandinavia
- Relative Size of US States Based On Electricity Consumption In 1921
- Most Common Surnames in Italy By Region
- Olympus Mons (Mars) Largest Volcano In The Solar System Compared to France
- New York’s Pneumatic Tube Mail Network Map
- Where European Billionaires Live
- Percentage Of Young Adults (18-34) Living At Home In 2005 vs 2015
Category: eCARTO News, General News