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.

Land Cover Mapping

• Corrigendum: Mapping tree density at a global scale – nature.com
• MapBiomas: New mapping platform will track annual deforestation in Brazil – mongabay.com
• Queensland botanists near end of epic mapping project started in late 1990s – abc.net.au
• Low-flying plane will be mapping Missouri conservation areas – news-leader.com
• Mapping tools chart path towards sustainable urban food supply – cordis.europa.eu

Mapping for Transport

• Making green commutes safer using mapping – directionsmag.com
• Audi, BMW, Daimler close on Nokia’s mapping business – autoblog.com
• Mapping Chicago’s Subway in the Style of Frank Lloyd Wright – citylab.com

Frontier mapping

• SNew XPRIZE Challenge: Map Ocean Floor – scientificamerican.com
• Mapping the Ganges – harvardmagazine.com
• What mapping L.A. through its music history tells us about our city – latimes.com
• WWII wrecks and Darwin’s ice age history unveiled by start-of-the-art technology – abc.net.au
• Why mapping the galaxy will be child’s play – theguardian.com
• What Does Sound Look Like?: The Audible Rendered Visible Through Clever Technology – openculture.com
• Atlas for the Blind, 1837 – cartographicperspectives.org
• Printing Raised Land Masses – instagram.com
• Kartograph – quadrature.co
• A Stunning Scale Model of Our Solar System, Drawn in the Desert – theatlantic.com

Mapping Application

• The USGS Mapping the National Parks and inspire works of art – gisuser.com
• Bluesky Partners with FATMAP to Create Interactive 3D Ski Maps – amerisurv.com
• Mapping 65 Years of Explosive Urban Growth – citylab.com
• Mapping the State: Ireland as you’ve never seen it – irishtimes.com
• Scientists Are Mapping the World’s Largest Volcano – nationalgeographic.com
• Mapping 65 Years of Explosive Urban Growth – citylab.com
• Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines – wsj.com

Mapping Technology

• Forget Pizza Delivery, Drones Mapping High-Altitude Glaciers Now – ndtv.com
• Here mapping team plans to use real-time driver data for autonomous cars – theverge.com
• UAS mapping the top goal for Topcon and Agisoft – spatialsource.com.au
• New Mapping Technology Helps Arctic Communities “Keep on Top” of Sea Ice Changes – smithsonianmag.com
• Drones offer cheap mapping from the sky – bbc.com
• Mapbox Fast building tracing with JOSM – mapbox.com

Cartographic Resources & Education & Opportunities

• Red Cross Australia Seek Mapping Volunteers – spatialsource.com.au
• The Times World Atlas – timesatlas.com
• USGS Maps, Images and Publications – usgs.gov
• Best of the Blogs 2015 – spatialsource.com.au
• QGIS Python Plugins Repository – qgis.org
• Five Type of Territorial Morphology – zoom-maps.com
• The Map Book – amazon.com
• Society of Cartographers – soc.org.uk
• Mapping European Empire – 3dvisworld.com
• The Cartographer Who’s Transforming Map design – wired.com
• Map, Exploring The World – longitudebooks.com
• Maps Across The World – wdl.org

Indoor Mapping

• German 3D Indoor Mapping And Navigation Startup NavVis Locates €7.5M Funding – techcrunch.com

Social Media and Crowd Sourced Mapping

• Mapping the Entire Known Web – hacked.com
• These Are The 5 Best Offline Mapping Apps – roadwarriorvoices.com
• 3 open source alternatives to Google Maps API – opensource.com
• Crowd-Mapping Jakarta’s Flood Problem Via Twitter (Because Jakartans Love To Tweet) – fastcoexist.com
• Improve OSM Improved – and now with Turn Restrictions – openstreetmap.org

Just Maps

• 10 Maps That Will Change How You View The World – iflscience.com
• World Events 2015 – mapsofworld.com
• The Curious Map Book – britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk
• Global Historical Emissions map – carbonbrief.org
• World – Solar Energy Map – industryabout.com
• Europe: The Human Footprint Index – vividmaps.com
• Searchable Roman map – pelagios.org
• Scratch Map of the World – amazon.com
• Source of the Amazon – zoom-maps.com
• Map of placename etymologies – zoom-maps.com
• 100 outstanding interactive maps of 2015 – visualoop.com
• They Don’t Make Maps Like this Anymore – huffingtonpost.com.au
• Vargic’s Miscellany of Curious Maps: Mapping Out the Modern World – stanfords.co.uk

Cartography to the Rescue

• Mapping for Niger, as Told by One of the Project’s Volunteers – globalvoices.org
• Herts County Council increases mapping of Rights of Way – hertfordshiremercury.co.uk
• From Washington to Rwanda: Let the Mapping Begin – ifrc.org

Politics and Cartography

• Maps track spread of U.S. social movements – latinalista.com
• Online Map Service Providers Asked to House Data on China-based Servers
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• Mapping the history of U.S. state politics – mit.edu
• Mapping the World’s Territorial Disputes – huffingtonpost.com
• Where U.S. Metro Economies Are Growing or Shrinking – citylab.com
• China Cracks Down on Politically Incorrect Maps – citylab.com
• Court of International Justice – zoom-maps.com
• Tuvan – zoom-maps.com

Data and Mapping

• The Motherlode Of Australian Mapping Data Is Being Released – gizmodo.com.au
• Storing large volumes of imagery and rasters in the cloud – esri.com
• Geocoded national address data to be made openly available – dpmc.gov.au

On a Lighter Note

• Santas Around the World – arcgis.com
• Sad Topographies – booooooom.com
• Digital Map of the Roman Empire to play with – citymetric.com