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Stepping Back In History

• Which Indigenous lands are you on? This map will show you – NPR
• Cartography shows that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was used as an inter-oceanic passage in the 16th century – Cartography
• World’s Oldest Known Map of Stars Found Hiding in Medieval Manuscript – msn.com
• Maps of past may shed light on our climate future – Mirage News
• Rare map shows what Tokyo was like in 1947 under U.S. occupation – The Asahi Shimbun
• Mapping reception of latitude and longitude in early modern China – Mirage News
• The History of the London Underground Map  – The Guardian

Education & Training

• Libraries’ webinar explored use of unique mapping design element – miami.edu
• Cartography – Salon.com
• This map-making tool has turned me into a digital cartographer – thenextweb.com

Opportunities & Activities

• Librarian (Cartographic Materials Cataloger) – USAJOBS – Job Announcement
• Cartografías, mapas y contramapas – Telegram: Contact @detrasdelmapa
• Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress – unwgic2022.in
• Criterios para evaluar apps de Geografía. – nosolosig.com
• We have 8 Masters Degrees in Cartography – findamasters.com

Publications

• La Belleza de losMapas – area-documental.com
• Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain – Cambridge Core

Cerebral Creativity

• Poem of the week: Cartography for Beginners by Emily Hasler – The Guardian
• Researchers present insight into the neural cartography of smell – medicalxpress.com
• Art meets tech: MapmyIndiaMappls launches The Ramayan Maps – The Indian Express
• The People Who Draw Rocks – nytimes.com

Oceans

• NOAA showcases new mapping tool for marine species – NOAA
• Whale Safe’ mapping system unveiled to help prevent whale-ship collisions – cbsnews.com
• Deep-Sea “Ears” Map Migration of Fin Whales – antarctica.gov.au
• NOAA formally joins international effort to map the gaps in our ocean knowledge – noaa.gov
• Detailed 3D seabed mapping available – coastcommunitynews.com.au

Emergency and Hazard Mapping

• Topographic Mapping for Snow Avalanche Hazard Modelling – gim-international.com
• Iceberg robots; researchers to map, study potential threats – hawaii.edu
• AI satellite mapping can quickly pinpoint hurricane damage across an entire state to spot where people may be trapped – phys.org

Environment

• Wondering where that bird in your backyard came from? A new mapping tool details its amazing journey. – yahoo.com
• Purdue team introduces advance in automatic forest mapping technology – Purdue University
• UN Starts World’s Biggest Glacier-Mapping Project in Pakistan – Bloomberg
• Smartphone data can help create global vegetation maps – Mirage News
• How drones are helping map Huon pines, Tasmania’s ancient giant trees – ABC News
• Purdue team introduces advance in automatic forest mapping technology – Purdue University News
• Researchers create map to show human impact on marine life in Baltic Sea – ERR

Earth

• MapCarte 342/365: Satellite Map of Earth by Tom Van Sant, 1990 – mapdesign.icaci.org
• NASA, USGS Map Minerals to Understand Earth Makeup, Climate Change – Mirage News
• Maps of the past may shed light on our climate future – University of Arizona News
• Seabed 2030 – noaa.gov
• NASA Dust Detective Delivers First Maps From Space for Climate Science – NASA

Extra Terrestrial

• Mapping the Milky Way – UBC Okanagan News
• Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon for first time – The Indian Express

3D Mapping

• Bentley Systems and Genesys International Collaborate to Provide 3D Mapping Capabilities for Major Cities across India – yahoo.com

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Borders and Centres

• FEMA releases new flood map, adds about 1,100 structures in south Bismarck – msn.com
• Map shows England areas most at risk from fuel poverty this winter – yahoo.com
• Rising rivers don’t necessarily follow the lines on a map – hcn.org
• On tiny Hans Island, Denmark and Canada create world’s newest land border – bigthink.com
• From bus routes to gutters, tech-savvy youth map Mali’s capital – africanews.com
• Mapping of Indigenous lands ramps up in Indonesia – news.mongabay.com

Here Today Gone Tomorrow

• Ghost islands of the Arctic: The world’s ‘northern-most island’ isn’t the first to be erased from the map – alaska-native-news.com
• New Map of Mars Shows Where It Was Once Covered in Water – gizmodo.com.au
• Perspectives | In Baku, mapping change and memory – Eurasianet
• Mapping India: How Madras pioneered a new age of surveys and maps – The Hindu
• New study of the Gough map shows what might be the lost islands of Welsh folklore – phys.org
• We’ve made a map of dark matter but still don’t know what it is, and that’s okay – sciencefocus.com
• UH astronomers map distances to 56,000 galaxies, largest-ever catalog – hawaii.edu

Tutorials & Opportunities

• Mapping the world – BBC Bitesize
• Postdoctoral Researcher in Cartography/Geovisualization – jobs.ethz.ch
• Special Issue “Geovisualization: Current Trends, Challenges, and Applications” – mdpi.com
• Encounters in the New World – press.uchicago.edu
• The Atlas of Design – atlasofdesign.org
• ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History – ishmap.files.wordpress.com

Transport mapping

• FlightPath3D Interactive Route Map Debuts on Air Canada – prnewswire.com
• The History of the London Underground Map by Caroline Roope review – the lines of beauty – theguardian.com
• Are you tempted by this app that links video and 3D mapping of your rides?  – road.cc

Technology

• Google reveals useful iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets for Maps – Trusted Reviews
• Large-scale Mapping in all terrains made easier with IG Drones Delta 400 – business-standard.com
• Growing Popularity of Drones for Mapping Purposes – yahoo.com
• Apple Maps vs. Google Maps – which one is best? – techradar.com

Exploring our World

• LandScan Population Data Explorer – landscan.ornl.gov
• Explore historical maps of Singapore and Southeast Asia – historicalmaps

Flora & Fauna Mapping

• Scientists Are Mapping New York City Wildlife. And We Don’t Mean Rats, Squirrels or Pigeons – columbia.edu
• Here’s an Interactive Map that Will Allow You to Plan a Precise Fall Foliage Road Trip – goodnewsnetwork.org
• Putting sharks on the map: A new standard to identify important habitats – phys.org/news
• Click here for P.E.I. oysters: new interactive map promotes Island shellfish – cbc.ca
• New mapping tools helping to protect seagrass in Dorset – miragenews.com

Climate & Weather Mapping

• There’s a new map of climate disasters in America – msn.com
• Hurricane Ian tracker: Map and projected storm path – washingtonpost.com
• Satellites to map ocean clouds that keep Earth cool – miragenews.com

Mapping the Environment

• New mapping tool to support search for high-quality nature-based carbon credits – miragenews.com
• Mapping the Great Lakes – record-eagle.com
• This strange-looking robot boat is mapping Lake Erie’s lake bed – cleveland.com
• Nasa ‘street view’ map of Mars lets you hike across red planet – metro.co.uk
• Researchers map streamflow alterations to gauge human impact on ecosystems – phys.org
• Study creates maps of noisiest areas in Taipei – taipeitimes.com

Cartography as Art

• Ground Plan, 2003; 2009 – mca.com.au
• Ever Noticed All the Mysterious Maps in Vermeer’s Paintings? Here’s What They Mean – news.artnet.com
• Troy Museum depicts Trojan War using 3D mapping – dailysabah.com

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Mapping the Environment

• Where do floodwaters come from? This map shows you – ktsm.com
• Interactive map shows every Texas hurricane since 1842 – beaumontenterprise.com
• Mapping Underground Geology – usgs.gov
• Agricultural OneSoil Map – map.onesoil.ai
• Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise Around the World – europeantimes.news
• Deep-sea ‘ears’ map migration of fin whales – antarctica.gov.au
• Researchers publish new permafrost map of northern hemisphere – english.news.cn/
• The world’s most remote oceans are polluted with microplastics: study – news.curtin.edu.au/

Tutorials & Opportunities

• Digital Maps – deliveryquotecompare.com
• Geo for Good Summit – earthoutreachonair
• China’s Geography with Maps – afe.easia.columbia.edu
• L’Exploratorium : voici la plus ancienne carte topographique du monde – futura-sciences.com
• Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator – color-blindness.com
• VizArt merges data visualization and 3D modelling to create cartography relief maps – designboom.com
• Make your own collaborative online maps – thenextweb.com
• Why Maps Show North On Top – newspatrolling.com

Just Maybe

• Map may prove ‘Welsh Atlantis’ rooted in fact, say academics – theguardian.com
• Medieval Map Shows ‘Lost’ Islands of Cardigan Bay – heritagedaily.com
• Interactive map based on Wikipedia reveals the most notable Hungarians – dailynewshungary.com

Science and Exploration

• New water map of Mars will prove invaluable for future exploration – esa.int
• NASA releases Jupiter images from James Webb telescope ahead of Artemis rocket launch to moon – abc.net.au
• Naval Oceanography Visits France – navy.mil
• Milky Way’s secrets revealed by massive space probe map – gulfnews.com
• Robot boat maps Pacific underwater volcano – bbc.com
• Upward propagation of gigantic jets revealed by 3D radio and optical mapping – science.org
• New 3D cosmic map reveals 1 million previously hidden galaxies – space.com
• Moon Features You Can See From Earth’s Southern Hemisphere (square) – planetary.org

News through the Lens of Maps

• 5 best News maps website- Read Interactive live news on World Map – igismap.com
• Worldmapper News – Worldmapper Archive
• World News Map – google.com
• Lauren Tierney named senior graphics reporter focused on cartography – washingtonpost.com

Indoor Mapping

• Pivo Wins 2022 PropTech Real Estate Indoor Mapping Solution Award – einnews.com

Technology

• Significant progress made on mapping Papahānaumokuākea seafloor – hawaiipublicradio.org

Borders and Centres

• New mapping of the Swedish-Norwegian border – highnorthnews.com

Fringe

• Ground Plan, 2003; 2009 – mca.com.au
• Satirical cartography: a century of American humor in twisted maps – bigthink.com
• Cartography and Topographic Mapping – journals.lww.com
• Crossword: Discover unique maps that chart the ocean floor and guide aliens to Earth – gulfnews.com

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Insights

• The meaning of colors and how they became symbolic – msn.com
• The Different Cartographic Projections and What They Mean – ArchDaily
• The beautiful detail of hand-drawn maps – rmg.co.uk
• Cartography and the Ottoman Imperial Project in the Sixteenth Century – harvard.edu
• Cartographer Overview – US News Best Jobs
• What Is the Indo-Pacific? – The Diplomat
• Geological diagrams for 3D motion – Edward Tufte
• The ‘Atlas’ by Mercator and Hondius – uu.nl
• The return of paper maps – domusweb.it
• The Cartography We Can’t See – Orion Magazine
• How Did Cartographers Create World Maps before Airplanes and Satellites? – Open Culture
• How Placing Intentional Errors Into Maps Can Protect Them – lithub.com
• Al-Sharif al-Idrissi Revolutionized Medieval Cartography and Mapmaking – insidearabia.com
• A brief history of Earth Observation – Atos
• Great Astronomers – Sir Robert S. Ball.

Mapping the Environment

• Reforming coral reefs using 3D printing – ScienceDaily
• Suitability of the global forest cover change map to assess climatic megadisturbance impacts on remote tropical forests – nature.com
• NOAA joins worldwide ocean floor mapping effort – msn.com

Opportunities

• ISHMAP 2023 Berlin – Symposium and Workshop – wordpress.com
• Next Generation Cartographers: A cartographic colloquium – DGfK
• ICC2023 – icc2023.org
• GeoCart’2022 – cartography.org.nz
• BCS Annual Conference 2022 – cartography.org.uk

Publications

• Introducción a los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) aplicados al catastro – nosolosig.com
• Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization, Fourth Edition – routledge.com
• Martin Waldseemüller’s ‘Carta marina’ of 1516 – Chet Van Duzer

Cartography Related Publications

• The Cartographers – Peng Shepherd
• Crucial Maps in the Early Cartography and Place-Nomenclature of the Atlantic Coast of Canada – JSTOR
• The Cartographic Capital – cambridge.org
• A History of Cartography in India – outlookindia.com
• Radical Cartographies – Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America – utexas.edu
• Horizons – A Global History of Science – news9live.com
• ‘Bos’ Schoolatlas der geheele aarde’ – uu.nl

This is Tomorrow Calling

• The Internet Needs You-Are-Here Maps – WIRED
• Map of BC’s “Petrofuture” shows sea-level rise in 1,000 years – dailyhive.com
• Omagh’s history brought to life by digital walking trail – BBC News
• 3D Map Platform for Bringing the Real World into the Metaverse – UASweekly
• The New Precision – At Scale – forbes.com
• ‘Underground maps’ segment cities using fashion, AI – Cornell Chronicle
• The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia – MIT Technology Review
• “Artificial Intelligence Is Definitely Not Just a Hype” – gim-international.com
• How the Geospatial Industry is Embracing AI – gim-international.com
• Building a Digital Twin for Germany – gim-international.com
• Army’s Synthetic Training Environment harnesses evolving mapping technology – The U S Army
• Sensor breakthrough paves way for groundbreaking map of world under Earth surface – ScienceDaily
• The UK’s wee military recon drones will double as cartographers – popsci.com

Out of This World

• Clearest image of Jupiter ever taken – tribunewired.com
• New Maps of Milky Way Are Biggest and Best Yet – Scientific American

Restoring the Past

• 50-year-old map ‘Picture of the world’ restored – muscatdaily.com
• De papieren atlassen zijn niet aan te slepen. Wat maakt ze zo onweerstaanbaar? – volkskrant.nl

The Art of Cartography

• One man and his compass: Meet the cartographer-turned-artist bringing snow to life – Euronews
• Cartographer Olaus Magnus’ Map of Sea Monsters – finebooksmagazine.com
• Former Map Maker Walks for Hours in Snow To Create Giant Geometric Patterns in Snowfields – mymodernmet.com

Interactive

• UNAOC and UNOSAT Launch Interactive Map of Religious Sites in Sweden Mirage News – UNAOC

A Light-Hearted Look

• Satirical cartography: a century of American humor in twisted maps – Big Think
• Top 17 Best Scratch off Maps June 2022 – Bestgamingpro

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Featured

• Ferjan Ormeling onderscheiden met Mercator-Medaille – geoinformatienederland.nl

Mapping the Environment

• Alcis releases public web map of Afghanistan earthquake – pajhwok.com
• Antarctica: Southern Ocean floor mapped in greatest ever detail – bbc.com
• Scientists and students onboard to map East coast tsunami risk – newcastle.edu.au
• Scientists Map Yellowstone’s Underground ‘Plumbing’ – smithsonianmag.com
• Google Maps now shows the air quality around you – gsmarena.com
• ‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration – news.mongabay.com

Exposes & reviews

• Western Cartography: A History – thepostil.com
• A Curious Implementation of Copper-Plate Printing – mappingasprocess.net
• The Southernmost End of South America through Cartography – h-net.org
• La Carte de France Histoire & techniques – editionsparentheses.com

Cartography Books

• Martin Waldseemüller’s ‘Carta marina’ of 1516 – library.oapen.org
• Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome – universitypressscholarship.com
• Cartophilia – Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland – press.uchicago.edu
• Mapping the World: The Story of Cartography – goodreads.com
• The Mapping of Africa – amazon.com
• Topographic Mapping Topographic mapping: covering the wider field of geospatial information science & technology (GIS & T) – academia.edu
• Japoniæ insulæ – The Mapping of Japan – amazon.com
• London Underground Maps – researchgate.net
• History of the World in Maps – goodreads.com
• Underground Cities – ltmuseumshop.co.uk
• History of the World Map by Map – vdoc.pub

The Comos

• NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps – jpl.nasa.gov
• Gravitational wave ‘radar’ could help map the invisible universe – sciencenews.org
• Gaia continues quest for the ultimate sky map – bbc.com
• Comet-mapping mission gets the go-ahead – imperial.ac.uk
• New maps of asteroid Psyche reveal an ancient world of metal and rock – /news.mit.edu
• Scientists map sulfur residue on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa – phys.org
• Astronomers map violent star formation in nebula outside our galaxy – miragenews.com
• China releases world’s ‘most detailed’ map of Moon – timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Mapping Applications

• Satellite mapping helps farmers drill down on pasture
• Map: See top 50 best French towns and cities to live in in 2022 – connexionfrance.com
• Digital mapping reveals network of settlements thrived in pre-Columbian Amazon – theguardian.com
• Dubai project to design digital maps for driverless vehicles – khaleejtimes.com

Cartographers

• ACT meets Middle Earth in massive hand-drawn map – the-riotact.com
• Cartography at BGS: 200 years of mapping Great Britain – youtube.com
• The world of H.C. Berann – berann.com

Industry

• Is the Leica Pegasus TRK a game-changer for mobile mapping? – geoweeknews.com
• Grab to Be Fully Powered by Its Own Mapping Technology by Q3 2022 – businesswire.com
• MapmyIndia collaborates with ISRO to boost 3D mapping – telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com
• 2 New iOS 16 Apple Maps Features Will Improve the Way You Travel – cnet.com
• Nextech AR To Spin Out Real-World Augmented Reality Spatial Mapping Platform ARitize Maps businesswire.com

Fringe

• She hacked an old knitting machine to weave the universe into a work of art – theage.com.au
• Canada and Denmark sign deal to divide uninhabited Arctic island – cbc.ca
• Google Maps has become a game with Geoguesser — and Trevor Rainbolt has mastered it – npr.org
• Google Maps has launched a cool and fascinating new ‘time travel’ feature – timeout.com
• Getting lost with Google Maps – khaleejtimes.com

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Mapping the Environment

• Interactive maps show B.C. communities’ vulnerability to climate hazards like flooding, wildfire smoke – CTV News
• Mapping the Ecology of Rainforests – sUAS News
• Mapping Chicago’s air pollution hotspots – suntimes.com
• Explosive Tonga volcano ‘surprisingly intact’ – bbc.com
• 2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture – news.mongabay.com
• This Map Shows Where Biodiversity Is Most at Risk in America – nytimes.com
• Stanford researchers use hot springs to map where continental plates collide beneath Tibet – news.stanford.edu

World

• Every Country’s Top Export and Import – BusinessFinancing.co.uk
• Fra Mauro’s World Map – mostre.museogalileo.it

Expose

• Descarga de datos de OpenStreetMap (OSM) con simbología en QGIS – cursosgis.com
• Immersive view coming soon to Maps – blog.google
• MapLab: The Historical Significance of Homemade Maps – Bloomberg
• Texas mom creates crowdsourcing map to help parents find baby formula during shortage – ksat.com

Opportunities

• Postdoctoral Fellow – yale-nus.edu.sg
• GeoCart’2022 – cartography.org.nz
• Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830 – Four Courts Press

Tutorials

• Carl Sagan explains how Eratostenes knows the earth is curved – Bing video

Visual I.D.

• SS Lake Illawarra mapped in 3D as government prepares to upgrade Tasman Bridge – ABC News

Publications

• Allen Coral Atlas – Allen Coral Atlas
• Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana Hui-A-Kiwa – UH Press (hawaii.edu)

Atlases & Maps

• Comprehensive Atlas of the VOC – Nationaal Archief
• Maps and concepts of proposed bicycle routes in Lafayette unveiled – katc.com
• Mapped: Global Happiness Levels in 2022 – visualcapitalist.com

Cartographers

• Tony Fankhauser – myportfolio.com
• Anton Thomas – Anton Thomas Art
• Melinda Clarke – The Melbourne Map
• Profesor D. R. Fraser Taylor – cartografo.cl

Industry

• GlobalMLBuildingFootprints – github.com
• BAS mapping data included in global collection – miragenews.com
• Geography nerds, rejoice! Google Maps is launching a spectacular new ‘immersive view’ – timeoutabudhabi.com
• Missing piece to faster, cheaper and more accurate 3D mapping – miragenews.com

Fringe

• Mapping Dante’s Inferno – atlasobscura.com
• Atlas of Fantastic Worlds – kickstarter.com
• Liminal cartography – exchange.art
• Google Maps: Watch the International Space Station – tech.hindustantimes.com

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Mapping the Environment

• Tongan volcano – ABC News
• NOAA and communities to map heat inequities in 14 U.S. cities and counties – NOAA
• ‘Momentous’ mapping project completed, helping to save world’s reefs – UQ News
• How cartography helped the Grand Canyon become grand – ASU News
• Map Shows Growing Number of Wildfires Sweeping Across US – nbcmiami.com
• World’s largest map of kelp forest canopies now available – phys.org
• ‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration – mongabay.com

World

• These maps from satellite data show how much Earth has changed in only five years – fastcompany.com

History

• Trench Maps – The Western Front Association
• The oldest complete map of London is finally going on display – timeout.com
• Ottoman Heritage in Greece: Map and Bibliography – efa.gr
• Unfolding the Map – natlib.govt.nz

Opinion

• Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital – JSTOR
• Check the map! – Canada’s National Observer
• Global Aerial Imaging Markets, 2022-2026 – prnewswire.com
• Interactive map gets closer to pinpointing African origins erased during slave trade – phys.org

Opportunities

• ‘Mapping Asia: Cartography and the Construction of Territoriality’. – hypotheses.org
• 9th International Symposium on the History of Cartography icaci.org
• Mapping Difference and Distance: Indigenous presence on European maps of southern Patagonia in the early modern period UWM Libraries
• EuroCarto 2022 – eurocarto2022.org
• GeoCart’2022 – cartography.org.nz

Articles

• Cartography News and Articles – Salon.com

Pushing the Boundaries

• 3D map of the surface of the moon – Daily Mail Online
• Citizen scientists help map ridge networks on Mars – phys.org
• NOAA showcases new mapping tool for marine species – phys.org
• Mapping out meteorites in Antarctica: Uncovering our solar system’s deep past – phys.org
• Just a few pixels would let astronomers map surface features like oceans and deserts on an exoplanet – phys.org

Publications

• Between the Covers: “The Cartographers” By Peng Shepherd – shelbynews.com
• Imago Mundi – tandfonline.com
• The History of Cartography – Cartography
• From ‘Kaikeyi’ to Cartography – nytimes.com

Contemporary Maps

• New Malta bus map – timesofmalta.com
• Government starts work on mapping 6 lakh villages, preparing – timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Different

• Lego Globe – LEGO® Shop US
• Sooke couple carving wooden maps of anywhere in the world – Peninsula News Review
• Examples of ‘cartography’ in a sentence – collinsdictionary.com
• Cartography, chart, draft icon – Iconfinder
• Mapping fiction: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps – The Guardian

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Mapping the Environment

• Even the sea has light pollution. These new maps show its extent – Science News
• Mapping and measuring Australia’s ever-changing landscape – Mirage News
• These maps from satellite data show how much Earth has changed in only five years – fastcompany.com
• Stanford researchers map wildlife and infrastructure to maximize tourism in Costa Rica – Stanford

World

• Das unsichtbare Netz der weltweiten Energieversorgung – Tagesspiegel
• Mapping Global Resources Fragility: The Water-Energy-Food Environment NEXUS – Imperial College London

History

• The oldest complete map of London is finally going on display – timeout.com
• For the first time, over 30 antique maps on display in month-long exhibition – msn.com
• Alumnus donates historic map, artifacts to CVCC – hickoryrecord.com

Opinion

• Is This the End of the Trail Map? – nytimes.com
• The best world map – KRQE News 13

Opportunities

• Director, Infographics Lab – uoregon.edu
• Revista Digital Cartógrafo.CL – cartografo.cl
• Map rivers with sf and ggplot2 in R – Milos Popovic

Animation

• One year later, this animation looks at the impact caused when the shipping container (Ever Given) ran aground in the Suez Canal [OC] – reddit.com

Indicative Mapping

• New maps show airplane contrails over the U.S. dropped steeply in 2020 – EurekAlert!
• Where did Americans move in 2021? This population map will show you – fastcompany.com
• 4.4 million galaxies are visible in this new map of the night sky – CBS News

Publications

• Mapping the mangrove forest – The Daily Star
• Between the Covers: “The Cartographers” By Peng Shepherd – shelbynews.com
• Mapping the Transnational World – Mapping thPrinceton University Press

Contemporary Maps

• Earth wall map – CartDeco
• New maps are encouraging people to hit the streets and explore Hartlepool – gazettelive.co.uk
• Sooke couple carving wooden maps of anywhere in the world – Peninsula News Review
• World & Regional Cartography Ultimate Brush Pack – Deven Rue

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Mapping the Environment

• 20 years of Forest Loss in Indonesia & Malaysia – reddit.com
• High-tech operation on Sydney Harbour steps up hunt for illegal fishers – ABC News
• Mapping microplastics on Australian beaches – cosmosmagazine.com
• Mapping a River Beneath the Sea – eos.org
• LiDAR mapping reveals park’s complex geologic history – mtstandard.com
• Revealed: First ever global map of whale migration exposes growing dangers along superhighways – Sky News
• The Milky Way is a messy eater. This map shows the crumbs it has left behind – science.org

Humanity

• Infographic: Hunger and food insecurity in maps and charts – Al Jazeera
• Covid Maps Reveal Personal Pandemic Landscapes – Bloomberg

Indoor Mapping

• Michael Gram Talks About the Growing Need for Indoor Mapping – globenewswire.com
• Virtual reality home – linked.in
• Intel, GoodMaps Collaborate On Mapping Software Project To Make Indoor Navigation More Accessible – forbes.com

Interactive Cartography

• 17 Sustainable Development Goals – arcgis.com

Opinion

• Maps That Changed Our World – loc.gov
• Mapping error raises question of location of 9 islands – AP News
• Shackleton’s Endurance: Modern star maps hint at famous wreck’s location – BBC News

Opportunities

• Call for Papers: Cartography and Geospatial Information Education – Theories and Practices – icaci.org
• Special Issue “Geovisualization: Current Trends, Challenges, and Applications” – mdpi.com

Education

• Cartography: an introduction – BCS
• Mapas y sus proyecciones cartográficas – Aragón en Abierto – YouTube
• Best Practice for How to Map Features and Overlapping Labels – LinkedIn
• Enhance. – esri.com

Resources

• OpenTopography DEM Downloader – qgis.org
• WorldMapGenerator – Worldmapgenerator
• Spanish Society for Cartography, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing – secft.es

Mapping Related Technologies

• Land Info Completes 10m Countrywide Mapping Dataset of USA – gim-international.com
• Drone mapping: One in six villages covered in India, shows data – business-standard.com
• Latest update for popular C-MAP navigation app includes host of new features – sail-world.com
• 3D Models from Drone Data Support Disaster Efforts and Define City Mapping Possibilities – UAV News

Publications

• Early Spanish cartography of the new world – escritoresquenadielee.files.wordpress.com
• Modernized Wall Maps – Visual Geomatics

Cartographers

• Proxi is making digital maps cooler – TechCrunch
• Student story: Cartography M.Sc. students participated at the International Cartographic Conference 2021 in Florence, Italy – cartographymaster.eu

Lite Cartography

• Sea Chase – xkcd: Sea Chase
• A Sphere, Projecting Against a Plane – metmuseum.org
• Jungholz: A ski town stuck in the wrong nation – BBC Travel
• Shackleton’s Endurance: Modern star maps hint at famous wreck’s location – BBC News
• Snapchat Will Allow Users To Share Live Location With New Snap Map Feature – news18.com
• ‘Underground maps’ segment cities using fashion, AI – Cornell Chronicle
• Nicolaus Copernicus – nasa.gov
• 10 Bizarre World Maps – Listverse

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Cartographers

• Carleton’s Fraser Taylor Named to the Order of Canada – carleton.ca
• Pioneer of Cybercartography and Indigenous Mapping Fraser Taylor Named to the Order of Canada – Geospatial World
• 40-year map project, History of Cartography, draws to a close – wisc.edu
• Story of MapMyIndia – hindustantimes.com

Visualisations

• MapLab: Thirty Days of Maps – Bloomberg
• For the love of maps – Mappery
• Die Weltkarte des Castorius : genannt die Peutingersche Tafel – Internet Archive
• British Isles & miscellaneous other countries update – GeoGarage
• Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization – jcheshire.com
• 11 Maps That Will Help You See the World in a Whole New Light – fodors.com
• Map of the Kingdom of Aragon by Juan Bautista Labaña. – loc.gov
• Europe At Night – Brilliant Maps
• Our favourite maps around the world in 2021 – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
• Singapore Land Authority Uses 3D Reality Modeling and Mapping – aeccafe.com
• How a Tongan volcano shocked the world – ABC News
• Transit Maps – Maps : inat
• A World Map Centered on Argentina – Brilliant Maps
• A Closer Look at Arrowsmith’s 1834 Map – Tasmanian Geographic

Cartographic Animations

• River runner global – samlearner.com
• Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation – msn.com
• Take a Look at The Largest And Most Detailed 3D Map of The Universe Ever Made – sciencealert.com
• Draining the World’s Oceans to Visualize Earth’s Surface – visualcapitalist.com
• Animated Map: U.S. Droughts Over the Last 20 Years – visualcapitalist.com
• NASA 3D Animation Shows How Gravity Levels Differ Across Our Planet Earth – indiatimes.com
• Migrating Birds In Europe: Map Visualization – Brilliant Maps

Opinion

• The return of paper maps – domusweb.it
• This Planet Ocean: Mapping the Other Two-Thirds of the World – directionsmag.com

Opportunities

• UN Mappers mapathon in 2022 – UN-GGIM Academic Network
• EuroCarto 2022 – eurocarto2022
• El simposio Paisaje y Cartografia – Ombues | Paisaje y Cartografía
• Songlines: the Indigenous Australian exhibition preserving 65,000 years of culture – The Guardian
• Athens show reveals the political and ideological power of geography – eKathimerini.com
• Mapping The Pacific Conference – State Library of NSW
• Atlases in Time – maps-and-atlases.com

Education

• Why is the world map you know wrong? – Live Science
• Useful tools for web mapping – ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Retrospectives

• How a Map Mistake Led to the Founding of New York City (New Amsterdam) – YouTube

Monitoring

• NASA Greenland Mission Completes Six Years of Mapping Unknown Terrain – NASA
• Mapping off Pasco and Hernando reveals healthy, growing sea grass meadows – suncoastnews.com
• Real-time mapping assists Tonga – Defence News
• City offers online map to help improve pedestrian, bicycle network – statesman.com
• UIC Researchers Create Interactive Map to Track Pollution – WTTW

Publications

• Gandara-Chacana on Padron, ‘The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West’ [review] – reviews
• Deux siècles de cartographie calédonienne 1774-1979 – caledolivres.nc
• Descarga la revista digital Cartógrafo.CL – cartografo.cl
• Cartography The Ideal and Its History – uchicago.edu
• World Heritage Map – UNESCO

Genesis Technologies

• Cycloramas in Melbourne – slv.vic.gov.au
• Before cinemas existed, this is where you’d go to see the latest blockbuster – ABC News

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.