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.
General News
- International Map Year – mapyear.org
- Copyrighting cartography with fictional places – atlasobscura.com
- 10 Ways Technology Is Changing How We Use Maps – businessinsider.com
- Glossary of Cartography and Map Terminology – worldatlas.com
Applications
- Hyperspectral Aerial Survey will Enhance Mapping Capabilities – usgs.gov
- UAV Mapping of a Landslide – directionsmag.com
- Snow Where You’re Going: Trace Ancient Inuit Trails With Interactive Atlas – indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
- Mapping the Santa Monica Fault presents unique challenges – scpr.org
- This new mapping technology will show whether global warming could drown your town – washingtonpost.com
- NASA’s Aquarius instrument returns global maps of soil moisture – phys.org
Industry News
- Microsoft to discontinue vintage mapping services MapPoint and Streets & Trips – winbeta.org
- Google launches weirdly fun ‘Smarty Pins’ trivia map game – venturebeat.com
- TripAdvisor for iPhone adds offline support, improves mapping features – betanews.com
- Amazon Fire Phone: Bing For Search, Nokia For Maps – searchengineland.com
- GIS People partners with DigitalGlobe – spatialsource.com.au
New Concepts Cartography
- what3words smashes conventional mapping with digital-first address system – tnooz.com
- Place Pulse – pulse.media.mit.edu
- Street Score – streetscore.media.mit.edu
- Spellbound by maps tracking hack attacks and cyber threats in real-time – networkworld.com
Transport & Mobile Mapping
- Watch this: Human transforms its app data into striking activity maps – engadget.com
- Middle East 24 – vimeo.com
- Maps With Me Lite is an offline mapping app for mobile devices – ghacks.net
- Living with Google: Google Maps – androidguys.com
Education and Resources
- The Mapmaker’s Conundrum – newyorker.com
- Geography and global order – thehindu.com
- Get to Know a Projection: The Space-Oblique Mercator – wired.com
- A Lesson in Mapmaking for All You Globetrotters Out There – jaunted.com
- How to Lie with Data – sys-con.com
- Geek Answers: Which map projection is ‘best?’ – geek.com
- What is Cartography? – mappingsciences.org.au
- Understand Maps and Cartography – geography.about.com /
- Cartography Software – cartography.oregonstate.edu
- Map & GIS Library to Receive Esri Award – library.tamu.edu
- Student project map from Bulgaria – cartography-gis.com
- Henry’s Map – davidelliot.org/henrys-map/
3D Cartography
- Google’s 3D-mapping Phones to Help Robots on the International Space Station – au.ign.com
- Malaysia’s new method of mitigating landslides: 3D mapping – futuregov.asia
- Cartographic Design Principles for 3D maps – A Contribution to Cartographic Theory – icaci.org
- True-3D in Cartography – springer.com
- Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences – springer.com
Maps
- Mapping Banaras – mid-day.com
- Map of Ramadan Tweets – bl.ocks.org
- The lie that charted New England’s future – bostonglobe.com
- Grisamore: Without maps, we all would be lost – macon.com
- 661 – 8 Million City: a Scandinavian Megalopolis – bigthink.com
- Comment: See how borders change on Google Maps depending on where you are – sbs.com.au
- How To Save Offline Maps in Google Maps For iOS – news.filehippo.com
Cartographers
- Redrawing the Earth by committee – wired.co.uk
- Lake Mendota mapmaker shows depth of her appreciation – news.wisc.edu
- The First U.S. Map That Was Made By A U.S. Citizen – io9.com
- From Pen And Paper To 3-D, Look Who’s Challenging Google Maps – npr.org
Historical Cartography
- The Maginot Line – lostimagesofww2.com
- Watch How American Cities Grew Through Thousands Of Historic Maps – gizmodo.com.au
- Historic maps in Welsh sold at auction in Colwyn Bay – bbc.com
- Commonwealth frames: Rescued archive images and maps – bbc.com
Opinion
- China’s Cartography won’t Change Ground Reality: MEA – newindianexpress.com
- Electronic Cartography Market worth $20 Billion by 2020 – marinelink.com
- Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq – thedailybeast.coml
Indigenous Cartography
- Indigenous Mapping Workshop – ubcic.bc.ca
- People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity – news.sciencemag.org
- New map reveals aboriginal knowledge – abc.net.au
- Aboriginal Language Map – mgnsw.org.au
- Critical Reflections on Participatory Mapping of Indigenous Territory – youtube.com
- International Day of the World’s Indigenous People – timeanddate.com
- Watch America become the country it is today – vox.com
- Maps document tribes before settlers’ arrival – parkrapidsenterprise.com
Cartography Lite
- Nanoscale Monet is world’s tiniest masterpiece – newscientist.com
- Test your knowledge of imaginary cartography with this fictional maps quiz – avclub.com
- Geoff Nicholson maps out the edges in fiction ‘City Under the Skin’ – latimes.com
- ‘The Map Thief’ by Michael Blanding – bostonglobe.com
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