• eCARTO News Oktober 2020
• EuroCarto 2020 – a successful (virtual) ICA Regional Conference
• Invitation to the Barbara Petchenik Competition 2021
• Upcoming events

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.

Storytelling

• How a Secret Map Brought Down a Pirate Alliance on the Irish Coast – atlasobscura.com
• Mapping Tools Open up New Possibilities in Property Storytelling – propmodo.com
• The power behind the map in the 21st Century – arcgis.com
•  Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell – bodleianshop.co.uk
• The maps that show life is slowly getting better – theguardian.com
• Copperplate of Treasure Island map – twitter.com

Cartographers

• Cartographers share maps that offer new perspectives – dailymail.co.uk
• Young drone cartographer puts record-breaking on the map – guinnessworldrecords.com
• The Yorkshire cartographer making hand-drawn maps of the region’s walking spots – yorkshirepost.co.uk
• Pakistani cartographer creates first 3D traditional food map – globalvillagespace.com
• The Cartographic Arts: vintage map maker puts Stroud on map – stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk
• Lockdown no bar, over 1,000 students honing skills in cartography – newindianexpress.com
• Not Google, This Woman Introduced India To Digital Maps – femina.in

Borders and Barriers

• When Rivers are Borders – earthobservatory.nasa.gov
• Data collection: Volunteer armies map ‘invisible’ communities hit by coronavirus – sightmagazine.com.au
• Mapping Shallow Seafloors – earthobservatory.nasa.gov
• European Borders In 1914 vs Borders Today – brilliantmaps.com

Cartographic Research & Development

• The unlit light of the deepest dark – odt.co.nz
• Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth – nature.com
• Study maps global regrowth carbon capture potential – spatialsource.com.au
• Deep Science: Alzheimer’s screening, forest-mapping drones, machine learning in space, more – techcrunch.com

In Case You Missed It

• 13 amazing maps to celebrate 13 years of OpenStreetMap – opensource.com
• Amazing Maps of the World – laughingsquid.com
•  Atlas of Oblique Maps – pubs.usgs.gov
• Communicating with maps – The art of cartography  – plnk.to
• The End of History and the Last Map – foreignpolicy.com

Cartographic Industry News

• What3words embedded into Here mapping for even better destination navigation – pocket-lint.com
• Aquatic Mapping Service Market to Witness Huge Growth By 2025 – prnewsleader.com
• Esri Ireland partners with Bluesky to enhance its digital mapping offering in Ireland – directionsmag.com

Map Societies and Agencies

• Washington Map Society washmapsociety.org
• National Geospatial Agency of the Year: Norwegian Mapping Authority – geospatialworld.net

Cartography Books & Resources

• New map book is for adventurers – cyprus-mail.com
•  How to choose a bivariate color palette? – nowosad.github.io
• Cartography Font Collection – typography.com
• What Are Contour Lines on Topographic Maps? – gisgeography.com
• Curating Generations of Cartography – directionsmag.com

Maps & Mapping Applications

• A trawler’s chart – i.redd.it
• National Library of Scotland – recent editions – maps.nls.uk
• Norway funds satellite map of world’s tropical forests – bbc.com
• Satellites put the world’s biggest methane emitters on the map – afr.com
• Mapping ‘fossil water’ helps achieve sustainable groundwater management in California – miragenews.com

Cartography – 3D, Animated and Interactive

• 3D NLS maps – maps.nls.uk
• Google Earth time lapse – earthengine.google.com
• Covid-19’s spread across the world – worldmapper.org
• Koori Culture Map  – deepmaps.sharingstoriesfoundation.org
• Explore the World’s Coral Reefs – allencoralatlas.org
• 3D mapping the Christ the Redeemer statue – bbc.com

Cartography and Tourism

• Sales of camping, hiking guides rise as Americans take to the outdoors – washingtonpost.com
• Slow map: Mapping Britain’s intercity footpaths – bbc.com

Mapping and Measuring

• School temperature mapping provides first guidelines for cooler schools – miragenews.com
• Low-flying helicopter spotted over D.C. area is mapping natural nuclear radiation – washingtonpost.com
• Rebounding in Hudson Bay – earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Thinking Outside the Quadrilateral

• ‘Pinhole selfie’ camera unveiled – bbc.com
• Road curvature  – roadcurvature.com

In the week of 21–25 September 2020, the EuroCarto 2020 (including the 68th German Cartography Congress) took place as a virtual event. With 412 registered participants from 57 countries as well as 45 presentations, three keynotes, a CartoHack and a CartoCafé, the event was a great success. The abstracts of all contributions have been published in the Abstracts of the ICA and can be read under the following link: https://www.abstr-int-cartogr-assoc.net/2/index.html. The videos of the presentations can be found in the detailed program on the event website.

Dear friends and colleagues,

It’s a great pleasure and honor to announce the Official Call for the Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition 2021.

This year there are no significant changes for the participants in the competition. The only one change is the new theme of the competition: A map of my future world (as selected by our colleagues from 17 countries).

All documents related to the organization of the next competition can be found here:

• General rules for the Barbara Petchenik Competition 2021
• Rules for the national coordinators
• Rules for teachers and parents
• Parent permission form: the permission form that should be signed by parents or legal representatives
• Author data form: an optional data form to be annexed to the drawings selected for the international competition

Please note: In June 2021, national coordinators will be invited to participate in an e-mail-based voting process to select the winning entries. Due to this, it is very important to send the names and e-mail addresses of the national coordinators to the Chair and Vice-Chair of the ICA Commission on Cartography and Children in the next months – otherwise we cannot ensure a direct contact for submitting the invitation.

For more detailed information about the competition, please visit the Petchenik section on the ICA website, the website of the Commission on Cartography and Children or their Facebook page.

Best regards

Carla Cristina R. G. de SENA
Chair, ICA Commission on Cartography and Children

Jose Jesus REYES NUNEZ
Vice-Chair, ICA Commission on Cartography and Children

To get more information about the events, please visit our calendar.