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 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

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Global View

• Mapping the world’s oil and gas pipelines – Al Jazeera
• Release of 2021 Atlas of Canada World Map – Mirage News
• Why Making Accurate World Maps Is Mathematically Impossible – Open Culture

Flora & Fauna Mapping

• Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet – mongabay.com
• Helping map the future of hazel dormouse conservation – phys.org
• Map of transparent butterflies highlights biodiversity hotspot in Andes Mountains – Mirage News
• Government study to map mosquito-borne virus risk – Taipei Times
• New analysis using Canada’s carbon map shows how wildlife conservation also benefits climate – yahoo.com

Innovative

• New digital maps make sightseeing in Shinjuku fun and easy – traveldailymedia.com
• Genesys International Ltd files two patents in 3D and Mobile mapping space – prnewswire.com
• Digital map of Rio’s biggest favela is reintegrating vital public services – mashable.com
• Drop A Magnet On A Map And This ‘Window To The World’ Will Take You To That Place – wonderfulengineering.com
• Walking in a 360° video with foot vibrations for seated observers – EurekAlert!
• ‘A new navigation experience’: Apple’s flash feature coming to iPhone – news.com.au
• Making maps with Anton Thomas – RNZ

Cartographic Animations

• HISDAC-US: Historical settlement data – youtube.com
• Living Atlas – arcgis.com

Transport

• New biking map of Athens eases the ride around town – uga.edu
• Forget Google Maps as Rival Joins Forces with VW for New Navigation Solution – autoevolution

Opportunities

• Mapping the Pacific conference – State Library of NSW
• New Map-Making Program in Brooklyn Helps Teens Navigate Loneliness, Isolation – bkreader.com

Education

• Teaching map literacy is important part of having an informed public – phys.org
• What is a Cartographer? – US News Best Jobs
• Understanding Spatial Resolution – gim-international.com
• Story Maps – loc.gov

Historical

• Second World War Escape and Evasion maps – awm.gov.au
• Predicting the Future by Mapping the Past – gim-international.com
• The Known World According To Herodotus In The 5th Century BC – Brilliant Maps

Cartographic Reads

• The Tasman Map – IMCOS Book Review – IMCOS Book Review
• Cartographers And Geographers – Encyclopedia.com
• Catalan Atlas, 1375 – outlookindia.com
• What made the search for longitude so important? – rmg.co.uk

Just Maps

• Blank map of Australia reveals ‘remarkable’ turnaround – news.com.au
• Birds-eye view from summit of Mt. Washington; White Mountains, New Hampshire – Leventhal Map & Education Center
• Image 1 of Nautical Atlas of the World, Circular World Map of the Portuguese Hemisphere and Title Page. – loc.gov
• Maya Atlas: The Struggle to Preserve Maya Land in Southern Belize – aaas.org
• Mapping the world’s oil and gas pipelines – Al Jazeera
• A Digital Map of Historical New York Offers an Extraordinary Level of Detail – Columbia News
• Grosser atlas über die gantze welt – Boston Public Library
• Language Map (IMAGE) – Science News Releases

Lite Cartography

• Make this papercraft globe please – esri.com
• World’s Largest Cylindrical Map of the World – Brilliant Maps
• This Map-Print Basketball Hurts My Brain – maproomblog.com
• Putman School, 6th Grade – Leventhal Map & Education Center
• Townsend’s Patent folding globe – Leventhal Map & Education Center

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Atlases and other publications

• 40-year map project, History of Cartography, draws to a close – wisc.edu
• State of Israel – 70 Years of Statistics, Historical Statistical Atlas 1948-2018 – cbs.gov.il
• See a selection of fabulous old maps of Newcastle from a new book published this week – Chronicle Live

Environmental Mapping

• Researchers map the impact of human sewage on coastlines around the world – abc.net.au
• Infographic: COP26 goals explained in maps and charts – Al Jazeera
• Three maps that show exactly how climate change has spread across the world in the last 30 years – inews.co.uk
• Flood-impact map a Canadian first – westernu.ca
• This map shows exactly where the world’s most important carbon is stored – fastcompany.com
• We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning – theconversation.com
• Digital Models for Planning and Disaster Management – gim-international.com

Opportunities

• American Geographical Society Library Research Fellowship – uwm.edu

Historical

• Panorama of the Thames project – Thames project
• Society for the History of Discoveries – discoveryhistory.org
• Spanish Armada maps ‘saved for the nation’ – BBC News
• ‘They deserve a place in history’: music teacher makes map of female composers – The Guardian
• Stone slab found in France thought to be Europe’s oldest 3D map – The Guardian
• Pacific maps: From the days when exploration was like setting off in the dark – smh.com.au
• Beautiful hand-drawn maps reveal Warsaw as it looked over 100 years ago – The First News
• Piri Reis’ world map on display at Topkapı Palace – hurriyetdailynews.com

Cartographic Inspirations

• Cómo conseguir un mapa al estilo “Joy Division” con Peak Maps – cursosgis.com
• QGIS para cartografía digital en censos y encuestas – nosolosig.com
• Zapotec in 90006, K’iche’ in 90057: New map highlights L.A.’s Indigenous communities – latimes.com
• 3D Printing Topographic Maps: How to Print Landscapes – All3DP

Cartographic Intrigue

• Banned map returns home – Mirage News
• Memory lanes: Google’s map of our lives – The Guardian
• WSU professor’s book, ‘Detroit in 50 Maps,’ gives cartographer’s view of the city – Wayne State University
• A Reddit user found a ‘black hole’ on Google maps, and users couldn’t figure out what it was – businessinsider.com
• The long lost Lancashire village which was ‘wiped off the map’ without a trace 40 years ago – LancsLive
• The Greek region too remote for maps – BBC Travel

Viewpoint – Cartography

• Are most maps of the world wrong? – BBC Science Focus Magazine
• Great maps and cartographers – ABC Radio

Just Maps

• Human Development Index evolution in Brazilian states between 1990-2015 – zoom-maps.com

Alternatives

• Building a 3D World: Common Sources of Elevation Data – gim-international.com
• Top 7 Google Map Alternatives Worth Checking Out – how2shout.com
• Done With Google Maps? 12 Reasons to Try Apple Maps – pcmag.com

Lite Cartography

• Cartographers puzzle-y fun – Marietta Times
• MAP: the one attraction you have to visit in each province in Spain – thelocal.es
• Zwift Neokyo map open from today | Full details of each of the 8 new routes – BikeRadar

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Technology

• HD Maps for Autonomous Vehicles – einnews.com
• Electric robots are mapping the seafloor, Earth’s last frontier – edition.cnn.com
• Drones to map 700 villages in Assam – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
• Inkonova is revolutionizing handheld mapping with Ouster Digital Lidar – marketscreener.com
• UC Berkeley scientists to lead NASA’s newest space telescope – miragenews.com
• It’s a digital world in today’s forests – bonnercountydailybee.com

Viewpoint – Cartography

• Paesaggi sonori. Il suono per mappare geografie invisibili – ilbolive.unipd.it
• Letter from Key West: Crimes against cartography – wlrn.org
• Indigenous Mapping Workshop Encourages Sovereignty through Cartography – nativenewsonline.net
• Opinion | Dana Kelley: Insightful cartography – nwaonline.com
• Paper towns – etftrends.com
• Kids wanna know: How are maps made and how long have they been around? – ksat.com

Interactive Mappin

• Multilingual, interactive mapping site to guide tourists on culture walk – Times of India
• This Interactive Map Lets Users Explore England’s Hidden Archaeological Landscape – Smithsonian Magazine
• The vaccination rate for every suburb in New Zealand on an interactive map – thespinoff.co.nz

Environmental Mapping

• Africa: New Tools to Map Flood Risk Will Help Bring Disaster Planning Up to Date – allafrica.com/stories
• Google Maps is getting better at mapping wildfires – eastidahonews.com
• MAPS volunteers celebrate 15 years of service – miragenews.com
• UN map tool shows every flood in the world since 1985 – independent.co.uk
• Environment Ministry embarks on elephant reserves, corridor mapping – business-standard.com
• Teen maps Thadagam valley to learn extent of damage caused – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
• Tsunami mapping provides clearer picture of devastation for NW Vancouver Island – cheknews.ca
• First map of its kind in Europe shows 30 percent of Poland has 5 billion tree crowns – thefirstnews.com

Deep Cartography

• Scientists create most detailed map of Uranus’ mysterious auroras to date – Space
• HawkEye 360 wins radiofrequency mapping contract with intelligence agency – defensenews.com
• Study demonstrates lunar composition mapping capabilities of spectrograph instrument – phys.org
• Divers on historic quest to map cave, spring – emissourian.co
• Astronomers get a 3D look at nearby stellar nurseries – astronomy.com

Historical

• Nebra Sky Disc: British Museum to display world’s ‘oldest map of stars’ – BBC News
• Mapping with the stars: Nuns instrumental in Vatican celestial survey – catholicnews.com
• mexican duo creates first cartography with all the architectural heritage of mexico city – designboom.com

Atlases and other publications

• Atlas Maps – Thinking Big – BBC Four
• ‘Momentous’ mapping project completed, helping to save world’s reefs – uq.edu.au
• Cartographica – Cartographica
• Epistemological thoughts on the success of maps and the role of cartography – tandfonline.com
• Drugs (Counter) Mapping – wordpress.com

Relief Maps

• Bartholomew Revised Half-Inch Map Skye and Wester Ross – View map
• 3D Design: Terrain and Sky Component in Mapbox Studio – 3D Design

Industry News

• The Ray and Esri partner to map solar energy hotspots – Traffic Technology Today
• Apple Maps introduces new ways to explore major cities in 3D – apple.com
• New global survey calls for greater coordination of seabed mapping activities – hellenicshippingnews.com

Related

• The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins – booktopia.com
• Volcano Watch — The Canary Islands “mega-tsunami” hypothesis, and why it doesn’t carry water – usgs.gov
• How cartography helped the Grand Canyon become grand – news.asu.edu
• The Future Is Bleak. Pondering Pangaea Gives Me Hope – wired.com

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Mapping Nature

• Mapping shows how great Barrier Reef is impacted by major weather events – themandarin.com.au
• New Tool Maps Birds, Fish In Offshore Wind Areas – wbur.org
• What Will Climate Change Feel Like? New Tool Provides Granular Estimates – bloomberg.com
• Entrepreneurs recognized for innovations in flood mapping technology – news.asu.edu
• City mulls new landslide and avalanche maps – juneauempire.com
• How to make mapping and monitoring zero-deforestation commitments effective – eco-business.com

Network Maps

• World Map of Shipping Traffic Density – moverdb.com
• Facebook Map of all the World’s Interconnected Friendships – brilliantmaps.com
• Anonymous Portuguese chart, after c. 1471 – medea-chart.org

Atlases and other publications

• Allen Coral Atlas – allencoralatlas.org
• All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey – amazon.com
• National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World – amazon.com
• The Journal of the Washington Map Society – wildapricot.org
• ArcGIS Living Atlas News (February 2021) – esri.com
• New book edited by Stanford scholars examines time and space in maps – news.stanford.edu

Mapping Tools and Data

• Aerial mapping tool helps local government plan for disasters – governmentnews.com.au
• Open Maps For Europe project releases first datasets created from official, national geospatial data – geospatialworld.net

Cartographic Cooperation

• USGS and the Republic of Peru Sign an Agreement for Remote Sensing Operations and Technological Development – usgs.gov

3D Maps

• Venezuela 3D Elevation map – Rodinia3DMaps
• Mumbai: BMC undertakes 3D mapping of Worli – mid-day.com

Cartographic Opinion

• Your Map Is Lying to You – outsideonline.com
• Analysis unlocks secret of the Vinland Map — it’s a fake – news.yale.edu
• The world probably doesn’t look like you think it does — and that matters, a lot – deseret.com
• A growing problem of ‘deepfake geography’: How AI falsifies satellite images – washington.edu
• Researchers explore ways to detect ‘deep fakes’ in geography – sciencedaily.com
• Art review: Fluid Cartographies looks at people and maps – canberratimes.com.au

Cartographic Resources and Opportunities

• This measurement is more than 2,200 years old, and its accuracy is remarkable – ABC News
• The District University of Bogota, Colombia – Nasa Mapathon – NASA Applied Science
• ISHMAP 2022 Montevideo – Symposium and Workshop – wordpress.com
• Chapter Call for Spatial Literacy in Public Health (ACRL) – google.com
• ISHMAP 2022 Montevideo – Symposium and Workshop – ishmap.wordpress.com
• On the Origin and Evolution of Nautical Charts – portmeeting.org
• The Young Geographer of the Year competition – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
• Maps for researching Scottish Woodland History – maps.nls.uk
• Tutorials for making 3D-looking maps with Blender – news.knowledia.com

Websites Selection

• Maps on the Web – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• Cartographic perspectives from our Map Librarians – blogs.bl.uk
• Harvard Map Collection – library.harvard.edu
• Maps for every device and platform. – mapzen.com
• North American Cartographic Information Society – nacis.org
• Hand Made Maps – handmademaps.com
• New York Map Society – newyorkmapsociety.org
• Views of the World – viewsoftheworld.net
• Légendes Cartographie – legendes-cartographie.com

On a Lighter Note

• Keen spirit: Australian cyclist uses GPS to recreate Nirvana’s Nevermind cover – theguardian.com
• Marvel Maps Charted in an Atlas of the Comic Universe – screenrant.com
• All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art – nytimes.com

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Borderline Cartography

• Putting Slums on the Map – MapLab
• A ‘redistricting nerd’ from NC won a national contest. His map is worth a look. – newsobserver.com
• Which Canada would you choose? – macleans.ca

Mapping Change

• Mapping wildfires around the world – Al Jazeera
• Where extreme weather is getting even worse, in one map – Vox
• Yukon-made sensors dropped from helicopter to collect wildfire information – yukon-news.com
• ‘Eyes of a machine’: How to classify Planet Earth – BBC News
• Building The World Country By Country  – Brilliant Maps

Hidden Cartography

• Mapping Underground Features – GIS Lounge
• Accident leads to safety win for Queenslanders with ‘phantom roads’ removed from maps – ABC News
• Mapping quest edges past 20% of global ocean floor – BBC News
• New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery – BBC News

Poles Apart

• South Polar Chart – vividmaps.com
• More to a Map Than Meets the Eye – antarctica.gov.au
• North Polar Regions – geographicus.com
• Land Cover in the Arctic – nordregio.org

Applications

• These electric submarines map the seafloor to make way for wind power – cnbc.com
• Every fireball meteor that hit Earth’s atmosphere in the last 33 years – msn.com

Cartographic Opinion

• Which way will paper maps go in the future? – ABC News
• Computers the cartographers of the future with student’s PhD research – ABC News
• Why is ‘North’ Always on Top in Maps? We Take a Look at the History of Cartography – news18.com
• Maps tell us where we are, and who we are – Inland Northwest
• Colonization of New England – Boston Public Library
• Everyone maps numbers in space, but…. – Science News

Cartographic Resources and Opportunities

• Glossary for Students – leventhalmap.org
• Nautical Chart Smarts – msn.com
• Call for Virtual Maps – Esri
• NASA NeMO-Net – nasa.gov

Videos

• How a 1507 German Map Became America’s Birth Certificate – YouTube
• How bold errors on old world maps shaped the 21st century – YouTube
• Medieval world map, Mappa Mundi, what does it show?  – YouTube

Kindred

• Expeditions that changed the course of history – www.msn.com
• The British shipwreck that changed the world – www.bbc.com
• Creating a Digital Twin of the Earth – GIM International
• The Canada Douglas Kendall sees from the sky – macleans.ca

Models

• Suitcase Trains – suitcasetrains.com
• See B.C. in all its 3D glory as giant Challenger Relief Map returns to PNE after 23 years – Vancouver Sun
• It Took 400+ Hours To Make This Super Accurate 3D Printed GTA V Map – kotaku.com

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Recognition of Cartographic Excellence

• ICA-IMIA Excellence in Cartography awards – imiamaps.org
• Epic Web Maps – The Maps Hall of Fame – gisgeography.com
• Chief Hydrographer Vinay Badhwar conferred with Alexander Dalrymple award – jagranjosh.com

Borderline Cartography

• The human consequences of colonial cartography explored in a recent book – caravanmagazine.in
• The world probably doesn’t look like you think it does — and that matters, a lot – deseret.com

Cartographic resources

• Proceedings of the Academic Track at State of the Map 2021 – zenodo.org
• 25 Map Types: Brilliant Ideas to Build Unbeatable Maps – gisgeography.com
• Choropleth Maps – A Guide to Data Classification – gisgeography.com
• 3 Advantages of Paper Maps Over Digital Maps – gisgeography.com

Cartographic Virtual Gatherings

• Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography – library.stanford.edu
• Libraries and the UN 2030 Agenda: the Role of Libraries in Promoting Sustainable Development – hkdrustvo.hr

Maps and Geography

• Geography Facts That Will Blow Your Mind – farandwide.com
• 10 Topographic Maps From Around the World – gisgeography.com
• Scientists aim to build a detailed seafloor map by 2030 to reveal the ocean’s unknowns – theconversation.com
• 6 of the World’s Oldest Maps – discovermagazine.com

Enhanced Cartography

• Africa – pinterest.com.au
• Vintage Geological Maps Get Turned Into 3D Topographical Wonders – openculture.com
• Kenya – Exploratory Soil Map – pinterest.com.au
• 3D Rendered Topographic Maps – longitude.one
• How to make those cool 3D vintage topo maps in ArcGIS Pro – esri.com
• Cartographer Transforms Vintage Maps Into 3D Relief Maps Showing Elevation – mymodernmet.com
• Scotland from above – our 3D map viewer with new vertical exaggeration – blog.nls.uk
• Topographic map of Ireland – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• Make a Vintage Forestry Map 3D using Modern Forestry Data – esri.com
• Generating 3D city models without elevation data – researchgate.net
• A Detailed Map of The Internal Structure of Mars Has Been Revealed For The First Time – sciencealert.com
• Commemorate Your Favorite Place With a Custom Relief-Style Map for Your Home – mymodernmet.com

Animations

• GEBCO 2021 Bathymetry Direct Measurement – maps.ccom.unh.edu
• Poland’s Territorial Changes 1635-Present – Life, Death & Rebirth – brilliantmaps.com
• Impressive cold shot moving north from Antarctica – trendsmap.com
• Gulf Stream Sea Surface Currents and Temperatures – svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

Cartographic Analysis

• QuietPlacesUK: modelling GB’s noise pollution using OS addressing and mapping APIs – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
• 7 Years Of Driving As A Professional Truck Driver Shown On A Map – fleetlogging.com
• Driving Times from Paris – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• 3 Wildfire Maps: How to Track Real-Time Fires Around the World – gisgeography.com
• Mapping reveals sorry state of canals – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
• Coral Reef Health Gets New Model for Mapping, Monitoring; Shortlists Factors and Identifies Which Reefs Might Survive – sciencetimes.com
• Mapping the hottest temperatures around the world – aljazeera.com
• US Navy has AI-improved method for mapping aerial imagery–ignore the cars – techlinkcenter.org

Industry News

• Esri boosts digital twin tech for its GIS mapping tools – venturebeat.com
• Robots Making Maps for Robots: Galileo/GNSS-based Mapping for High-Definition Guidance – insidegnss.com
• ArcGIS Pro Cartography proves to be a game changer – geospatialworld.net

On a lighter note

• Bad map projections – xkcd.com
• Marvellous pictorial map of New Zealand – raremaps.com
• Stinky Bay? How local names can protect lives on the coast this summer – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
• 21 Of The Saddest Places On Earth From Instagram’s sadtopographies – brilliantmaps.com
• What do they talk about? – davidrumsey.com

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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.

Country by Country

• Hungarian Geographer Creates First Ever Mars Atlas – hungarytoday.hu
• ‘Look Around’ vehicles begin mapping the Czech Republic – ilounge.com
• Mapping the invisible atmospheric ‘rivers’ that bring East Africa’s rain – climatechangenews.com
• New Land Subsidence Map Reveals the Netherlands’ (In)Stability – gim-international.com
• Japanese website maps neighbourhoods that have noisy children – theguardian.com
• Beautiful countryside makes beautiful maps : The Alps in Austria – agslibraryblog.wordpress.com
• Mapping Armenia’s Edible Landscape, One Wild Bilberry Bush at a Time – smithsonianmag.com
• What India’s New Digital Soil Map Can Do for the Country – science.thewire.in
• Mapping floods in Bangladesh caused by Cyclone Amphan to support humanitarian response – preventionweb.net
• Croatia sits on many geological faults, not all active, southern Dalmatia highest risk – croatiaweek.com
• See a 4,000-Year-Old 3D Map of France – hyperallergic.com
• Iran to allocate some $240,000 for Great Wall of Gorgan restoration – tehrantimes.com
• Redesigned Apple Maps Expanding to Spain and Portugal Today, Italy and Australia Later This Year – macrumors.com
• Latvia Map and Satellite Image – geology.com
• North Macedonia – mapcarta.com
• 6,000 WWII-era bomb craters mapped in Poland – livescience.com
• How Uruguay is advancing its National Adaptation Plan across cities through adaptive solutions and education – preventionweb.net
• Mapping an Ecuadorian Research Base in Antarctica with a Drone – commercialuavnews.com
• Robinson Crusoe Island Captured by Landsat 8 Satellite – scitechdaily.com
• Ordnance Survey launches OS Maps for Australia – spatialsource.com.au
• Mexican duo creates first cartography with all the architectural heritage of Mexico city – designboom.com

Language

• Languages of East Timor – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• Modern Distribution of Celtic Languages In The 21st Century – brilliantmaps.com
• US State Names by Language of Derivation – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• Map Of The Tribes Of Arabia – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com

Please explain?

• The Definitive Guide to SLAM & Mobile Mapping – gim-international.com
• Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation – jcblibrary.org
• The next ‘deep fake’ images: Public lands, natural disasters – eenews.net
• A disaster and a discovery – thehindu.com
• Map data is shockingly easy to fake, from ‘Pokémon Go’ to satellite images – fastcompany.com
• Making Manned Aerial Mapping Accessible – amerisurv.com
• The New Era In Mapping: Maps For Machines By Machines – news.crunchbase.com

Cartographic Resources

• Afrimapr – afrimapr.github.io
• International Journal of Cartography, Volume 7, Issue 2 (2021) – tandfonline.com
• Modern Map Reading Skills – getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
• Mapping Self in Society – news.vanderbilt.edu
• Journal of Map & Geography Libraries – tandfonline.com

Cartographic Themes

• La distancia hasta el centro de salud más cercano en el mundo – elordenmundial.com
• Shaping the Mountains of the Future – gim-international.com
• When Rivers are Borders – earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Maps on Display

• Larissa Fassler’s cartography at the Currier Museum describes socioeconomic disparities in Manchester – theartblog.org

Marine Cartography

• Preserving the future of our oceans through underwater mapping – cnet.com
• Mapping quest edges past 20% of global ocean floor – bbc.com
• Trio in plan to accelerate seabed mapping – shipinsight.com
• Cartographers Say The World Now Has Five Oceans, Not Four – deeperblue.com
• Mapping the Secrets of the Earth’s Seabed – bloomberg.com

Weather, Climate and the Cosmos

• Weather and climate – scottduncanwx.com
• Cosmic cartographers map nearby universe revealing the diversity of star-forming galaxies – sciencedaily.com

Cartography reporting

• Woven Alpha Automated Mapping Platform and Mitsubishi Fuso Collaborate on Latest HD Mapping Technology for Advanced Driver – miragenews.com

Odd Spot

• Barsetshire map – https://trollopesociety.org/product/barsetshire-map/
• The World’s Most Mildly Infuriating Map Legend – businessfibre.co.uk
• The deepest hole we have ever dug – bbc.com
• Your brain goes all the way to 11 – bicyclenetwork.com.au
• ORAU hosts Mythical Cartography course for educators – knoxnews.com

Kindred

• How Augmented Reality can help improve the indoor mapping experience – auganix.org
• Polynesian migration theories challenged by new research – auckland.ac.nz
• Cartography – thedailystar.net