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.
World Maps
- Mapping the World’s Air Pollution in Real Time – citylab.com
- Mapping the World’s Winners and Losers from China Trade – foreignpolicy.com
- Mighty and Ominous Satellite Images of the Human Condition – citylab.com
- Who Owns the Digital Map of the World? – citylab.com
- Vargic’s Miscellany of Curious Maps: Mapping out the Modern World – penguin.com.au
Country Specific Mapping
- 200 Years of Dutch Topographic Mapping – topotijdreis.nl
- Mapping Berlin – slowtravelberlin.com
- How a crowd-sourced map changed Kuala Lumpur’s ideas about cycling – theguardian.com
- Tanzania: the smartphone apps putting Africa’s fastest-growing city on the map – theguardian.com
- Mapping lava flows in Iceland – phys.org
- Mapping the Syrian Refugee Crisis Across Europe: In Pictures – wired.co.uk
- Transport for London’s new crash map immediately crashes – theregister.co.uk
- Use this excellent mapping tool to figure out how long it takes to travel to every single place in London – businessinsider.com.au
Industry News
- 1st ICA European Symposium on Cartography – eurocarto.org
- Cartographica – utpjournals.press
- Google sued over Waze’s alleged theft of map information – theverge.com
- Apple set to boost mapping with Mapsense – spatialsource.com.au
- 5 New Travel Startups Giving Mapping a Fresh Perspective – skift.com
- Inside iOS 9: Apple Maps Gains Transit Mode and Nearby Search – macrumors.com
- With $23M From Accel And Salesforce, CartoDB Will Bring Mapping To The Masses – techcrunch.com
- Here Maps Will Perform Navigation Duties On Samsung’s First Round Smartwatch – ubergizmo.com
Mapping Applications
- The Best Smartphone Apps for Drivers – blog.caranddriver.com
- Astronomers Use Kickstarter to Save Mopra Telescope Mapping Milky Way – huffingtonpost.com.au
- Mapping a Syrian refugee’s danger-filled journey to Europe – rescue.org
- Mapping the ‘Urban Fingerprints’ of Cities – citylab.com
- Google Maps Now Shows You if Climate Change Will Put Your Home Underwater – mic.com
- Mapping the invisible scourge – economist.com
Cartographic Resources & Education
- Cartography related courses – anzmaps.org
- Webinar “Monitoring and usage analytics of high load web map services – Case National Land Survey of Finland” on October 13, 2015 – spatineo.com
- The True Size of Countries – thetruesize.com
- Spatial Knowledge on Demand – discoverspatial.com
- Making Connections Between the World’s Newest and Oldest Maps – citylab.com
- Communicating with Maps Part 3: Considering uncertainty and error – directionsmag.com
- An open source mapping primer – opensource.com
- Who Decides What Names Go on a Map? – news.nationalgeographic.com
Marine Cartography
- The truth about politics and cartography: mapping claims to the Arctic seabed – theconversation.com
- Dutch Marine Atlases geheugenvannederland.nl
- KSBB begins mapping marine ESAs – thehindu.com
- Seeking Volunteers For Reef Mapping Project – bernews.com
- Mapping science expedition may bring along New Zealand’s mining industry – gwsnewswire.com
- Greek Antikythera Shipwreck Yields The Antikythera Mechanism – countercurrents.org
Using Technology for Mapping
- 6 Travel Apps Every Globetrotter Needs – huffingtonpost.com
- iRobot Brings Visual Mapping and Navigation to the Roomba 980 – spectrum.ieee.org
- Mapping who drinks wine or beer in Europe, by tweets – qz.com
- IST professor part of effort to map aurora borealis using Twitter – news.psu.edu
- Laser mapping the California forests – america.aljazeera.com
- How a Secret Spy Satellite’s Camera Found a Second Life Mapping the Moon – nationalinterest.org
- Self-sweeping laser could dramatically shrink 3D mapping systems – news.berkeley.edu
- StreetMapperIV – Mobile Mapping System sparpointgroup.com
- SeeLight app helps the blind navigate city streets through audible cues that instruct users on when to cross the road – psfk.com
- Google Maps – Benefit From its Free Features for iOS Devices – neurogadget.com
- Use Google’s New Mapping Tool To See How Much Solar Panels Would Benefit Your Home – fastcoexist.com
Cartography and Research
- Drone gets local test flight – thealpenanews.com
- International Map Year Research Collection – explore.tandfonline.com
- Conceptualising the geographic world – tandfonline.com
- Places & Spaces: Mapping Science – scimaps.org
Opinion
- Forest-Mapping Instrument for Space Station Passes Major Milestone – spaceref.com
- The nerd’s guide to learning everything online – ted.com
- Global Mobile Mapping System Market – Trends and Forecasts (2015-2020) – prnewswire.com
- New mapping technology cutting costs on GIS – ferret.com.au
- Location, Location, Location: How GIS Turns Up The Heat On Infrastructure Mapping – theurbandeveloper.com
- Web Mapper, Mapping Straight – directionsmag.com
- Can a Google Maps for indoors save shopping malls? – marketwatch.com
- What Data Tells Us About Public Interest In Climate Change And Its Global News Coverage – forbes.com
- Here’s Why Uber Would Spend $3 Billion on Maps – time.com
Mapping for Publications
- How journalists can use mapping platform MapJam – ijnet.org
- Making Maps for Books – bookriot.com
- Atlas of Knowledge – Anyone Can Map – scimaps.org/atlas2
- History As Big Data: 500 Years Of Book Images And Mapping Millions Of Books – forbes.com
- When to use shape maps in data visualisation: part 2 of a great big guide – onlinejournalismblog.com
History Mapping
- Introduction to Family HiStory Maps – discoverspatial.com
- Here’s what India’s biggest cities looked like centuries ago – scroll.in
- A Colorful Dot Map of America’s Immigrants – citylab.com
- Mapping Australia’s dinosaur landscape – bbc.com
- This 1960s British Rail map shows all London’s mainline services – but misses out the tube – citymetric.com
- Mapping London’s great plague of 1665 – theguardian.com
- Vintage Infodesign – visualoop.com
Art in Maps
- Art from old maps – kleinsungallery.com
- The Map of Literature combines centuries of books and poems in one gorgeous illustration – vox.com
- Ordnance Survey has turned its maps into printable colouring sheets – citymetric.com
- A Nerd’s-Eye View of New York’s Most Complex Subway Stations – citylab.com
- Project Linework – projectlinework.org
- 11 maps of London you can actually wear – timeout.com
Map Gallery
- Map Gallery – geonext.com.au
- Visit every place on this vintage US map for the most epic road trip ever – vox.com
- Mythical creatures of Europe – tandfonline.com
- Using Maps and Data Vis to Understand Tennis – news.nationalgeographic.com
- Exhibition: Geologica Hispaniae Chartographia – igme.es
Mapping Anomalies
- Tiny hamlet of Trihi to vanish from the South Australian map in rare ‘discontinuation’ – abc.net.au
- Say what? Mapping mispronounced towns across Canada – theglobeandmail.com
Mountain Cartography
- Band 21 “Mountain Cartography. ….” – carto.univie.ac.at
- Terrain models – terrainmodels.com
- Eduard Imhof (1895–1986) – terrainmodels.com
Alternative Cartography
- Egg map – labsator.tumblr.com
- Maps join adult colouring in – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- Una noche de mapping en el centro de Quito – elcomercio.com
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