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.
Mapping Developments
- Mapping: Disruption ahead! – computerworld.com
- Professors Build AI To Help Autonomous Vehicles Locate Themselves On Maps – manufacturing.net
- “Revolutionary” New Biodiversity Maps Reveal Big Gaps in Conservation – news.mongabay.com
- This mapping app will keep you from getting lost even without a network connection – digitaltrends.com
- Sensorly App Launches Crowdsourcing Feature For Tracking And Sharing Carrier Coverage And Speed – techtimes.com
- Il sistema innovativo di rilievo mobile mapping STENCIL – rivistageomedia.it
Mapping Applications
- Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted – theguardian.com
- Mapping Countries That Censor the Internet – theatlantic.com
- Mapping our special places in Wales – satprnews.com
- Rwanda forges forward with drone mapping – suasnews.com
- Mapping the World’s Knowledge Hubs – citylab.com
- El vídeo «mapping» de la Plaza Mayor reunió a 25.000 espectadores en tres días – abc.es
Industry News
- Kartographos – kartographos.de
- Uber begins mapping Asia’s roads, starting off in Singapore – techcrunch.com
- Leica and Geolantis partner for cloud based utility mapping – spatialsource.com.au
- Google Maps engineer who pioneered Street View is now working for Lyft – theverge.com
- Golden Software Releases Surfer 2D and 3D Mapping, Modeling, and Analysis Software – directionsmag.com
- BMW partners with Mobileye, Here for real-time mapping – detroitnews.com
- Tesla Adds Charging-Station Status Indicators to Its In-Car Maps – blog.caranddriver.com
- Go Unmanned Partners with DroneDeploy to Increase Software Line – roboticstomorrow.com
Mapping the Past
- Mapping history – economist.com
- How the U.S. Air Force Mapped the World at the Dawn of the Cold War – news.nationalgeographic.com
ICA Facebook Posts
- How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Ocean Floor’s Secrets – news.nationalgeographic.com
- Mapping The 6,000-Year History Of The City – forbes.com
- Carto tips: Using blend modes and opacity levels – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- Check out this interactive 3D model of Oroville Dam – sacbee.com
- Virtual Reality: the Paradigm Shift of Spatial Representation – gim-international.com
- The Stunning Early Infographics and Maps of the 1800s – atlasobscura.com
- NYC Street Trees by Species – jillhubley.com
- One Line – One World! – kickstarter.com
- Hacking a DEM Sunrise – nation.maps.arcgis.com
- 1000 GIS Applications & Uses – How GIS Is Changing the World – gisgeography.com
- Creating 3D Sketchup Models from GIS Data – engineeringtheory.wordpress.com
- What Do Contour Lines on a Topographic Map Show? – gisgeography.com
Opinion
- ‘At least I can walk away with my dignity’ – Streetmap founder after Google lawsuit loss – theregister.co.uk
- Mapping the Philippines – philstar.com
- Best of the Blogs – 22 February 2017 – spatialsource.com.au
- Interview – The man who mapped Dakota’s pipeline like a jigsaw – news.trust.org
- The future of paid voice search and monetizing the map – searchengineland.com
Cartography and Society
- Mapping benefits changes: how GIS can help housing associations – theguardian.com
- Mapping Cape Town’s Informal Minibus Taxi Network – citylab.com
- Mapping The Collective Experience of a City – fastcodesign.com
- Understanding Our Cities, Thanks To Beautiful Maps – forbes.com
- Poverty Mapped in Near Real-Time Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data – seeker.com
Mapping Beyond Terra Firma
- Mapping the family tree of stars – sciencedaily.com
- How Math Could Help Map Earth’s Interior – scientificamerican.com
- Fugro embarks on unmanned ocean mapping competition – spatialsource.com.au
- Ocean mapping XPRIZE cuts teams to 21 – bbc.com
Imagery
- Mapping rainforest chemistry from the air reveals 36 types of forest – sciencenews.org
- FEMA flood chief: expanding lidar’s reach boils down to cost, quality, and communicating – spar3d.com
- PIX4D Indoor Mapping Game Plan – suasnews.com
- High-tech maps of tropical forest diversity identify new conservation targets – sciencedaily.com
- Visual Geocoding A Quarter Billion Global News Photographs Using Google’s Deep Learning API – forbes.com
- Lidar used to map ancient Mayan superhighway system – extremetech.com
Mapping Oddities
- Man checks Google Maps before picking up friend – and sees her standing in SAME spot months earlier – mirror.co.uk
- What If Bike Paths Looked Like Subway Maps? – citylab.com
- This Robot Will Carry Your Stuff and Follow You Everywhere – entrepreneur.com
- Sweden uses Minecraft for urban planning – computerweekly.com
- Tracing (and Erasing) New York’s Lines of Desire – newyorker.com
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