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.

Opportunities & Publications

• Mapping for a Sustainable World – un-ilibrary.org
• The ArcGis Imagery Book – freecomputerbooks.com
• The Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) – cca-acc.org

Education & Training

• Navigating by touch with 3D maps – geoweeknews.com
• When Art Meets Strategy: Unveiling the Craft of Military Cartography – sofrep.com
• Ordnance Survey reveals top map symbol requests – bbc.com
• Create your maps with IMAGE, our map generator tool – ec.europa.eu

History

• Heritage sites promoted on new Unesco map – bbc.com
• Rare map from the 1500s shows the land before Great Britain was created – msn.com
• John Speed – author of one of the world’s great cartographic treasures – dailyecho.co.uk
• Library’s precious atlas charts a course through nation’s history – news.leeds.gov.uk
• The 1930s: When London Was Really Put On The Map – londonist.com

Nature

• YSE Scientists Make Critical Breakthrough in Mapping Global Methane Emissions from Rivers and Streams – environment.yale.edu
• Mapping hidden meltwater paths in glaciers: importance – miragenews.com

Built Environment

• Paved paradise: Maps show how much of US cities are parking lots – thehill.com
• New Yorkers, how much shade does your street really have? This map will tell you. – gothamist.com

Hot Topics

• Registro de incendios forestales en el mundo – esa.int
• Where extreme heat stifles London’s neighbourhoods most — in maps – cbc.ca
• NCEI Supports Heat Mapping Study in Asheville – ncei.noaa.gov
• Mapping the hottest temperatures around the world – aljazeera.com
• What you need to know about online fire maps – cabinradio.ca
• Introducing powerful new cartographic design tools, including heat maps – felt.com
• CityLAB’s new tree mapping feature calls Berliners towards a greener future – archinect.com

Opinion

• Here’s why the Greenwich Prime Meridian is actually in the wrong place – theconversation.com
• Cómo hacer que los datos ayuden a hacer la normativa de la UE sobre deforestación justa y viable – es.weforum.org
• Geospatial technology could help St. Louis area students map their futures – audacy.com
• A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? – theguardian.com

Industry

• GeoCue’s New Imaging Systems: Powerful Tools for Drone-based Aerial Mapping and Surveying – commercialuavnews.com
• 30 Second Data Viz with OSM GPT – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

Animations

• Animated map reveals the 550,000 miles of cable hidden under the ocean that power the internet – youtube.com

Related

• La Vuelta a Espana 2023 stage-by-stage guide: Route maps and profiles of all 21 days – independent.co.uk
• New map shows Galway Bay in unprecedented stunning detail – galwaydaily.com

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Featured

• Cartography Remains Critical in the Digital Mapping Age – esri.com
• Is map-reading a lost art? In an era of GPS, here’s what map fans say we’re losing – cbc.ca
• Data scientist charts the power, politics, and purpose of mapmaking – news.miami.edu
• Maps are the Record of Humans’ Imagination of the World – historynewsnetwork.org
• Copyright and Cartography – copyrightcartography.org

Opportunities & Publications

• The Medieval Map and the Mercy Mission. – thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk
• Here Begins the Dark Sea – simonandschuster.com
• The Cassini Map – The book – conspiration-editions.com
• A detailed land use/land cover map for the European Alps macro region – nature.com
• Swapna Liddle’s new book maps a city – tribuneindia.com
• Copyright and Cartography – bloomsbury.com

Education & Training

• How Maps Work – science.howstuffworks.com
• If you struggle to read maps, you’ll find these readable and attractive – nation.africa
• What if all our maps were wrong? – boatsnews.com
• There is no perfect world map! – boatsnews.com

History

• Ce que les papyrus nous apprennent sur la géographie dans l’Antiquité – theconversation.com
• Most exact version of ‘Daedongyeojido’ map returns from Japan – en.yna.co.kr
• Heritage: Maps for a lost city – dawn.com
• 18th Century York Woman’s Diary Inspires New City Map – miragenews.com

Curious?

• Harrison Richard Edes – David Rumsey
• Charting clarity: Furman researchers see 18th Century maps through different lenses – furman.edu
• New NASA Map Details 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses in the US – solarsystem.nasa.gov
• Celebrate 400 years of moon maps for Apollo 11’s anniversary (gallery) – space.com
• Spatial Map of the Human Intestine Created – technologynetworks.com
• Cosmic Growth Map Backs Einstein’s Gravity Theory – miragenews.com
• People believe this map was created by flat earthers and shows what lies beyond Earth’s ‘ice wall’ – ladbible.com
• Seeing with neutrinos: how astronomers are mapping the cosmos without light – nature.com

Industry

• TZ Maps, a new player in the electronic mapping landscape – boatsnews.com
• Commercial UAV Expo Preview: Ingredients For a Successful Drone Program in Surveying & Mapping – commercialuavnews.com
• Fugro’s seabed mapping supports Norway’s marine resource preservation – hydro-international.com
• Google Maps vs. Apple Maps: Which navigation app is best? – tomsguide.com
• Big Tech coalition challenges Google and Apple’s monopoly on maps – techspot.com
• Overture Maps Foundation Releases First World-Wide Open Map Dataset – geospatialworld.net

3D, Interactive & Animated Mapping

• First results of 3D mapping Nessebar’s ancient town revealed – gim-international.com
• Interactive map shows which US cities will be underwater in 2050 – news10.com
• 3D Mapping and Modeling Market to grow at a CAGR of 15.24% from 2022 to 2027 prnewswire.com
• Navigating by touch with 3D maps – geoweeknews.com

Innovation

• MIT’s Senseable City Lab Maps Cities In Motion – indiaeducationdiary.in
• 3 Questions: Honing robot perception and mapping – miragenews.com

Hot Topics

• Tracking Heat Across the World – nytimes.com
• Fire map breaks down the location and intensity of every nearby fire – khq.com
• Imperial researcher awarded £1m for magma-mapping project – imperial.ac.uk
• FY-4A Satellite Boosts Solar Mapping in China with AI – miragenews.com
• Google Maps: This free tool shows a heat map of where you’ve been – pcworld.com

Nature

• Global map of wildlife trade reveals true cost to the planet – nature.com
• The Amazon River in the Sky – Nautilus

Imagery

• Scroll through the universe with a new interactive map – phys.org

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Opportunities & Publications

• Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship – loc.gov
• British Cartographic Society 60^th Anniversary – eventbrite.co.uk
• Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps – Brill
• Mapping for a sustainable world – digitallibrary.un.org
• Here Begins the Dark Sea – pegasusbooks.com

Ancient Maps

• A map of how Romans saw the world – reddit.com
• L’ hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terresaustrales – loc.gov
• Sud Polar Karte – twitter.com
• Image 2 of Susŏnchŏndo – loc.gov
• Monsoon & trade wind chart of the Indian Ocean – loc.gov
• The countries round the North Pole – digitalcollections.nypl.org
• Map of the Crown Prince Islands, Disco [sic] Bay, Greenland – loc.gov
• Karte von der KôraischenHalbinsel (Kôraïvl. Tsjo-Sjön) nach einem japanischen originale – loc.gov
• Spanish Armada maps go on display in Portsmouth – bbc.com
• First results of 3D mapping Nessebar’s ancient town revealed – gim-international.com

Country Specific & World

• Italy – behance.ne
• 3D Map of Ukraine – behance.net
• Dramatic changes revealed in 2023 world map – au.news.yahoo.com
• The World’s Population in 3D – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

Curious?

• The Nile is the world’s longest river? The Amazon would like a word. – washingtonpost.com
• The Kessler Syndrome – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• AI Street View Hallucinations – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Creepy map hidden inside your phone tracks where you’ve been and the pics you snapped – mirror.co.uk
• Where is the Titanic wreck on a map? Return route process, Google map co-ordinates and more explored – sportskeeda.com
• What maps can tell about history – dnews.com
• Is map-reading a lost art? – cbc.ca
• Copying out maps – welcome to learning in the mid-1800s – cravenherald.co.uk
• Time Travel Street View – timetravel-streetview.glitch.me
• Maps in comics – washingtonpost.com
• Explore the World with Shadows – ooglemapsmania.blogspot.com

Just Maps

• A Bird’s Eye View of America – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Eine Deutschlandkarte mit “wahren” – etymologisch korrekten Namen – imgur.com
• Embroidered ‘West Australia’ tablecloth – collection.maas.museum

Transport

• Flight Radar – flightradar24
• Map of the Week: Roads of the World – ubique.americangeo.org
• Google Maps: Exploring the World in 3D with Street View – nnn.ng

Themed

• The Map of Roman Amphitheaters – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Global Sunlight Chart – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Mapping cities in motion – miragenews.com

Software and Apps

• MapLibre – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Reprojector – hanshack.com

The Environment

• Mapping Connecticut’s Understory from Outer Space – miragenews.com
• Mapping hidden meltwater paths in glaciers: importance – miragenews.com

Imagery

• Beautiful Banc d’Arguin National Park – earthobservatory.nasa.gov
• Staring at the Moon – googlemapsmania
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope Reveals New Dark Matter Map – miragenews.com
• Next-generation underwater lidar technology aims to map the ocean floor in remarkable detail – sciencex.com
• HotSat-1: Spacecraft to map UK’s heat inefficient buildings – bbc.com

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Featured

• Virginia’s Deaf Communities: A Spatial Story – deaflibva.org

Cartouche & Sea Monsters & Symbols

• Cartouches, or Decorative Map Titles – davidrumsey.com
• Map of the world showing Drake’s voyage – collection.sl.nsw.gov.au
• Alexander de Lavaux, “Algemeene Kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname,” after 1758 – jcblibrary.org
• The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps – ocean.si.edu
• Signs of the times: Ordnance Survey to consult on new map symbols – theguardian.com

Artificial Intelligence & Search Engines

• AI Map Search Finds Atlantis – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Map shows each country’s DREAM job based on Google search data – businessinsider.com
• Diving Deeper: How AI is helping to map the way Western Australia protects its sea floor – news.microsoft.com

Industry News

• Google Maps is expanding Immersive View to routes – engadget.com
• What map app is the best on Apple Carplay and Android Auto? – drive.com.au
• 3D geospatial company partners with Google Maps Platform – geospatialworld.net

Just Maps

• Worldwide Golf Courses – reddit.com
• Indonesia 1943 – loc.gov
• Maps of You (and Everyone You Know) – blogs.loc.gov
• A map of submarine cables connecting British Empire in 1902 – eddit.com
• Mapping a Mughal City – accartbooks.com
• Distance from the coast in Denmark – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
• First Nations of Australia Map – wildwoodmaps.com

Projections & Panoramas & 3D

• Scandinavian Airlines System Spiral Polar Projection  reddit.com
• How curved is Chile? – reddit.com
• Panoramic map of the Caucasus – ericknightmaps.net
• Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country – loc.gov
• Cosmic Growth Map Backs Einstein’s Gravity Theory – miragenews.com
• Mapping reception of latitude and longitude in early modern China – miragenews.com
• First results of 3D mapping Nessebar’s ancient town revealed – gim-international.com

Transport

• The Rise & Fall of the Irish Railway – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

Collectives

• Washington Map Society – washmapsociety.org

The Environment

• Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2022 – svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
• Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability – zacklabe.com
• Mapping the World’s Highest Mountains, By Continent – visualcapitalist.com
• Discovering the Gulf Stream – divediscover.whoi.edu
• Nigerian Navy joins global mission to map the ocean floor – hydro-international.com
• Eyesea and Mapbox improve ocean pollution mapping capabilities – seatrade-maritime.com

Related

• Mapping Long-term Land Use Change with Remote Sensing Data – gislounge.com
• Mapping Tornado Tracks with Satellite Data – gislounge.com
• The First Images from EUMETSAT MTG-I1 – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope Reveals New Dark Matter Map – miragenews.com

You Can’t Be Serious

• 30 Of The Weirdest And Most Interesting Geography Facts You Probably Didn’t Know – boredpanda.com
• Hilarious Terrible Maps – farandwide.com
• Flat Earther accidently proves Earth is round – indy100.com

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The Environment

• Smartphone data can help create global vegetation maps – miragenews.com
• GISS Surface Temperature Analysis – data.giss.nasa.gov
• Mapping floods of the future reveals communities at risk due to climate change – phys.org
• Mapping Wetland Loss Across Three Centuries – eos.org

Water

• Ved Chirayath is on mission to map world’s oceans – miragenews.com
• World Water Day: Mapping water stress across the Middle East – aljazeera.com
• Mapping hidden meltwater paths in glaciers: importance – miragenews.com
• Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists – bbc.com
• Mapping the Catalan coast using airborne Lidar bathymetry – hydro-international.com

History

• Virginia T. Norwood: The Mother of Landsat – landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov
• Europe’s Oldest Map Shows Tiny Bronze Age Kingdom – atlasobscura.com
• From Dragons To Mythic Locations, These Are The Biggest Mistakes In Ancient Maps – iflscience.com
• Seoul : A variation of “Daedongyeojido,” a famous map of the Korean Peninsula created in the 19th century by the Korean cartographer Kim Jeong – ho #Gallery – socialnews.xyz

Industry News

• Google Maps Rival Gets Major Update With a Little Something for Everybody – autoevolution.com
• Garmin Launches Motorcycle GPS Navigator That Puts Google Maps to Shame – autoevolution.com
• I Thought Google Maps Was the Best Navigation App, But This Alternative Blew My Mind – autoevolution.com
• Smartphone Screen Material Maps Magnetic Fields – miragenews.com

Just Maps

• Arctic Seafloor Geomorphology – leah_mfulton
• Heart of the Teton Range – pbs.twimg.com
• 19 World Maps In The Style of Famous Artists – brilliantmaps.com
• Submarine Cable Map 2023 – submarine-cable-map-2023

Out of this world

• China releases its first color-coded global map of Mars – news.cgtn.coml
• Solar Eclipse over Australia – .reddit.com
• NASA Retires Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Orbiter – mars.nasa.gov
• Stargazing: a knitted tapestry – reddit.com
• World Satellite Map – natgeomaps.com
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope Reveals New Dark Matter Map – miragenews.com
• NASA’s new Mars map lets you explore the planet for yourself in 3D – news.sky.com

Opportunity

• NIST Seeks UAS 3D Map Researchers for Grand Prize Challenge – miragenews.com

Chats

• No! The Earth Would NOT Look Like This Without Water – ourplnt.com
• Mapping reception of latitude and longitude in early modern China – miragenews.com
• Why using a map may be better for your brain than GPS – spectrumlocalnews.com
• Cosmic Growth Map Backs Einstein’s Gravity Theory – miragenews.com

Collections

• The Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Use – openculture.com

A Mapping Game

• The Game of the World – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

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Publications

• International Journal of Cartography – tandfonline.com

Research & Investigations

• Where the sidewalk ends – news.mit.edu
• Conservation of Spanish Armada invasion maps reveals red ink details were added hundreds of years later – theartnewspaper.com
• New Research Overturns 100-Year-Old Understanding of Color Perception – scitechdaily.com
• A universe without mathematics is beyond the scope of our imagination – phys.org
• Ancient maps of Jupiter’s path show Babylonians’ advanced maths – newscientist.com

Maps – Collected & Exhibited

• Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection – Stanford
• Maps unfolded: exhibition in Amsterdam – Allard Pierson
• 14 maps you need to see to understand Wales and the challenges we face – walesonline.co.uk
• 40 Unusual And Fascinating Maps That Might Change Your Perspective On The World .boredpanda.com
• Windows on Collections: Maps – youtube.com
• The world’s languages, in 7 maps and charts – washingtonpost.com
• Rare maps charting England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada will remain in the UK – dailymail.co.uk

Opportunity

• GeoKartenbrief – ilh-geocenter.de

Connections

• Maps Chart Emotional Connection to Local Landscape – miragenews.com
• Mapping path from smell to perception – miragenews.com
• Fascinating map of the world reveals each country’s second language – dailymail.co.uk
• Stanford research explores novel perspectives on the evolution of Spanish – news.stanford.edu
• You can now try the Spanish Google Maps, unique in the world – gearrice.com
• A new map reveals the most famous people born in Czechia – expats.cz

The Environment

• Mapping Technology Boosts Land Managers’ Carbon Trading Options – miragenews.com
• Mapping the risks of isolation due to sea level rise associated with global warming – phys.org
• Return of the Gedi: space mission that maps Earth’s forests saved from destruction – theguardian.com
• Smartphone data can help create global vegetation maps – miragenews.com
• A Treasure Map to Falling Stars? This Glaciologist Made One – explorersweb.com
• Study reveals map of moon’s water near its south pole – phys.org
• Accuracy at risk as governments reject specialist mapping tools – miragenews.com
• New mapping tools helping to protect seagrass in Dorset – miragenews.com
• Scientists map nearly 10 billion trees, stored carbon, in Africa’s drylands – news.mongabay.com

Maps & Atlases & Globes

• Cities and Towns in Europe over 1000 Inhabitants – reddit.com
• A Global Map of Wind – earth.nullschool.net
• New online atlas maps marine life & habitats – miragenews.com

Virtual Mapping

• Linux Foundation Takes on Metaverse, Physical World Mapping Challenges – linuxinsider.com

Archaeological Mapping

• University of Bradford’s Croatia project to map ancient lands – bbc.com

History

• This Google Maps Feature Takes Your Street Back in Time – cnet.com
• Ireland’s maps: Retracing how they made world history – bbc.com

Industry

• Hivemapper is 1M kilometers closer to goal of beating Google Maps – geospatialworld.net
• Esri Joins the Overture Maps Foundation to Help Build Interoperable Open Map Data – businesswire.com

Transport Mapping

• HERE WeGo Route Options: Showing Google Maps How It’s Done – autoevolution.com
• 5 Google Maps Tips to Deal With Heavy Traffic – autoevolution.com
• Advanced digital mapping solution for Czech railway infrastructure – gim-international.com

A Chat

• Mapping reception of latitude and longitude in early modern China – miragenews.com

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Young Cartographers

• Students harness GIS technology to help with earthquake recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria – clarku.edu
• Ouray teen launches San Juan maps business – ouraynews.com
• A TikTokker has created a map of new London boroughs – with hilarious results – timeout.com

Education

• The Oxford Seminars in Cartography – bodleian.ox.ac.uk
• Geography and Virtual Orientation – zoomgov.com
• Guyana Mining School offering map reading, navigation course – newsroom.gy

Theory & Practice

• What new symbols would you add to Ordnance Survey maps? – t3.com

Geospatial Understanding

• Making sense of place through personal connection to location – youtube.com

Conservation

• The Gough Map conservation project – bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Maps & Atlases & Globes

• Airways to Peace – moma.org
• Museum of modern art airways to peace exhibition 1943 – wikipedia.org

Mapping Related

• The mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book – bbc.com

Geological Mapping

• Flights Above Puerto Rico To Map Geology – usgs.gov
• The First Geological Map of Yellowstone National Park – usgs.gov

History

• The History of Cartography at MOMA, 1943 – mappingasprocess.net

Industry

• How BMW-, Mercedes-owned map specialist Here aims to stay a step ahead of Google – autonews.com
• Navman Quits Market As Google Maps Takes Over – channelnews.com.au
• Mappedin Raises Series A to Accelerate Growth as Demand for Indoor Mapping Increases – yahoo.com
• Esri Joins the Overture Maps Foundation to Help Build Interoperable Open Map Data – businesswire.com

Vegetation Mapping

• Purdue launches new AI-based global forest mapping project – purdue.edu
• Bluesky Tree Map Enhances Online Urban Forest Mapping Platform – einnews.com
• Accuracy at risk as governments reject specialist forest mapping tools – phys.org
• A new vegetation mapping of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau based on terrain-climate-remote sensing – eurekalert.org

Risk & Awareness Mapping

• Maps Show How Landscapes Stop Fires – miragenews.com
• Groundbreaking map shows toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in more than 330 wildlife species – ewg.org
• Sensitivity Mapping: Accelerating offshore wind expansion and protecting nature – birdlife.org
• Mexico: Mapping Dengue Fever Hotspots – com
• Take a Look at This Map of PFAS Pollution Across the UK and Europe – envirotech-online.com
• County’s latest seawater intrusion maps reveal an intractable problem that’s getting worse. – montereycountyweekly.com
• Recount with digital map leads to doubling of listed Japanese islands – kyodonews.net

Out of This world

• Over a Billion Galaxies Shine in New Sky Map – gizmodo.com
• NASA device maps out dust storms from space to curb climate change – deseret.com
• NASA’s SWOT Mission Aims To Map Earth’s Surface Water – dogonews.com
• Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe – uchicago.edu
• Astronomers map the “dark chemistry” of outer space – earth.com

Esoteric Map Themes

• Mapping Melbourne’s ‘ghost signs’ – theguardian.com
• SBS World News introduces First Nations place names in nightly national weather forecast – sbs.com.au
• Hiker Finds Out the Hard Way That a Traditional Map Is Better Than Google Maps – autoevolution.com

Opinion

• The Growing Demand for Electronic Cartography Market 2023 – marketwatch.com
• Google Maps Rival Says the Future of Navigation Is All About Car Sensors – autoevolution.com
• What’s old is new again, paper maps making a comeback – cbsnews.com

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Feature

• Lifetime Achievement Honor for Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment – news.syr.edu

Opportunities

• 31^st International Cartographic Conference – icc2023.org
• Women in GIS – Awards and Scholarships – womeningis.wildapricot.org

Maps & Atlases & Books

• Three New USGS Astrogeology Science Center Maps Of Mars – spaceref.com
• Atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado docs.moleiro.com
• The Miller Atlas, 1519, the atlas of the first circumnavigation of the world. – youtube.com
• The sixth Edition of the Atlas of Design – atlasofdesign.org
• Book About the Mapping of Greenland – highnorthnews.com

Theory

• Exploring the mathematical universe – connections, contradictions, and kale – theconversation.com
• The power of lines and strokes: How our brain recognizes line drawings – medicalxpress.com

Academia

• Purdue launches new AI-based global forest mapping project – miragenews.com
• The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA) – visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
• Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923 – storymaps.arcgis.com

History

• Map History Books Published in 2022 – mappingasprocess.net

AI-Assisted Mapping

• Revolutionizing planetary exploration: AI-assisted mapping – gim-international.com
• AI Mapping Uncovers Exoplanets: Researchers Develop Method – miragenews.com

Transport

• HD Map for Autonomous Vehicles Market Report 2022 – businesswire.com
• Luminar acquires HD Mapping Startup Civil Maps – geoweeknews.com
• Google Maps Rival Says the Future of Navigation Is All About Car Sensors – autoevolution.com
• Google Maps Chief Sees New Directions for Digital Navigation – wsj.com
• Google’s higher-resolution driving maps will premiere in the Polestar 3 – engadget.com

Cartography Adopting Industries

• Strava acquires 3D mapping platform FATMAP – geoweeknews.com
• Virdee & MapsPeople partner to maximize the hotel guest experience with indoor mapping – traveldailynews.com
• Esri launches interactive mapping tool for state, corporate policymakers – business-standard.com

Risk & Awareness Mapping

• Oregon wants to delay controversial wildfire risk mapping – again – oregonlive.com
• DNR shares results from summer 2022 Milwaukee heat mapping campaign – adysmithnews.com
• Fairtrade launches new map to identify human rights and environmental risks in cocoa and other commodities – confectionerynews.com
• Snow map predicts chances of it falling where you live as UK’s bitter cold snap continues – mirror.co.uk
• Estonian Rescue Board unveils nationwide public shelters online map – news.err.ee
• Social media and aerial mapping of sea floor reveal that tourists love Hawaiian coral reefs just a little too much – phys.org
• It’ll take 150 years to map Africa’s biodiversity at the current rate. We can’t protect what we don’t know – modernghana.com
• Snow Day Forecast – images.squarespace-cdn.com

Imagery

• Mapping Malta’s Seafloor with Satellites – hydro-international.com
• Scientists find new emperor penguin colony via satellite mapping – dailysabah.com
• Astronomers map the “dark chemistry” of outer space – earth.com
• Thermal drone hailed a game changer in koala mapping – abc.net.au
• Tiger sharks with cameras on their backs map ‘world’s biggest’ seagrass meadow in Bahamas – .abc.net.au
• NASA Dust Detective Delivers First Maps From Space for Climate Science – climate.nasa.gov
• Seabed 2030 – oceanservice.noaa.gov
• High Definition Aerial Laser Survey – linz.govt.nz
• Vodafone’s mobile network has a digital twin – vodafone.com

Inspired by Mapping

• YouTuber Gaurav Taneja Draws Largest Map of India By Flying Plane on Republic Day – news18.com

Opinion

• Forget Google Maps: Why Paper Map Sales Are Booming – wsj.com
• Who are the Flat Earthers and what do they believe? – msn.com
• Congressional mapmaker Bob Orr speaks: No one had the ability to ‘cook the books’ – wfae.org

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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.

Awareness

• Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information – raisg.org

Step Back In Time

• Maps of past may shed light on our climate future – miragenews.com
• New maps of asteroid Psyche reveal an ancient world of metal and rock – news.mit.edu

Industry news

• Redesigned Apple Maps experience expands to users in these five countries – 9to5mac.com
• Google Maps is available again on Wear OS 2 smartwatches – androidauthority.com
• Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home – bloomberg.com
• Google Maps update to offer energy-efficient routes for electric vehicles – drive.com.au
• Google rivals join forces in online maps – hurriyetdailynews.com
• US-France satellite to map world’s oceans, rivers, lakes – aljazeera.com

Conference

• XVIII Conferencia Iberoamericana de Sistemas de Información Geográfica – geografia.unex.es

The Human Factor in Mapping

• Local bodies in Kerala to ready Buffer zone mapping…… – english.mathrubhumi.com
• Have Soldiers Forgotten How to Use a Map and Compass? – news.yahoo.com
• Interactive NYC tree map aims to help residents care for urban forest – smartcitiesdive.com
• Sydney suburbs remapped according to how they feel, sound and smell – abc.net.au
• NOAA and communities to map heat inequities in 14 U.S. cities and counties – noaa.gov

Open Map Data

• Tech giants band together to set up open-source mapping platform – techradar.com

Interactive and Animated Maps

• This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On – smithsonianmag.com
• Scrollable Map of the Cosmos Reminds Us How Tiny We Really Are – cnet.com
• Map shows cascading extinction of species from climate change – abc.net.au
• You can interact with over 1 million NYC trees through this awesome new map – timeout.com

Mapping the Environment

• OCP Africa Launches Soil Mapping Project in Kenya – moroccoworldnews.com
• Mapping Rock Glaciers – irishtechnews.ie
• Esri Puts Audubon’s Migratory Bird Initiative on the Map – audubon.org
• Massive meteor crater discovered by geologists in Minnesota – kiro7.com

Adapting Technology

• Tiger sharks with cameras on their backs map ‘world’s biggest’ seagrass meadow in Bahamas – abc.net.au
• NASA Dust Detective Delivers First Maps From Space for Climate Science – climate.nasa.gov

Relax with Cartography

• Data reveals what really defines the American South – .washingtonpost.com
• 27 Facts About The Planet’s Geography That Will Completely Distort Your Sense Of Being – buzzfeed.com
• First Ever Street View Style Map of Lake Tahoe – tahoefund.org
• USGS Newsletters – usgs.gov
• Rivers in the Sky – www.usgs.gov
• Mapped: Global Happiness Levels in 2022 – visualcapitalist.com
• A Map of the Online World in Incredible Detail – visualcapitalist.com
• Who Is Marie Tharp? Google Celebrates Creator of ‘World Ocean Floor Map’ – newsweek.com
• Satirical cartography: a century of American humor in twisted maps – bigthink.com
• Make My Drive Fun, An Interactive Map That Plots Interesting Sites to See While on a Road Trip – laughingsquid.com
• Meteorologist has fun with weather map – abcnews.go.com
• 30 Interesting Maps That Might Change Your Perspective, As Shared On This Instagram Account – boredpanda.com
• “Daily Educational Maps”: 40 Interesting And Informative Maps That Might Change The Way You Look At The World Forever – boredpanda.com
• 25 funny Google Street View pictures – techadvisor.com
• Why Swiss maps are full of hidden secrets – bigthink.com

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.

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.

Step Back In Time

• A Medieval Manuscript Has Revealed the Oldest Known Map of the Stars – Smithsonian Magazine

Education & Training

• Mapping reception of latitude and longitude in early modern China – Mirage News

Opportunities& Activities

• Cartographic Collections Manager – rgs.org
• Symposium ICA Spring Olomouc 2023 – upol.cz

Cartographers

• Meet the man behind a London Underground-style map featuring a staggering 618 Leeds pubs and clubs – Yorkshire Evening Post
• From bus routes to gutters, tech-savvy youth map Mali’s capital – Africanews
• Celebrating Marie Tharp – google.com

Uncovering the past

• Team of divers complete three-year mission to create 3D map of sunken World War II Japanese submarine – ABC News
• Mapping Rock Glaciers To Understand Their Future on Earth and Mars – irishtechnews.ie

Interactive Maps

• New Scrollable Map of the Universe Reminds Us How Tiny We Really Are – CNET
• New interactive map shows 200,000 galaxies, a slice of the known universe – CTV News

Fauna & Mapping

• Study: Zebrafish are smarter than we thought – MIT News

Changing Marine Environment

• The ‘mind-blowing’ sea floor changes caused by Tongan volcanic eruption – ABC News
• Predictive map of Britain shows large part of Midlands vanishing into sea in 80 years – nottinghampost.com
• More efficient ocean mapping and monitoring – sciencex.com

Making Sense of Our World

• Results of Philly’s Citizen Science Heat Mapping Study Expected in Spring – wdiy.org
• Sydney suburbs remapped according to how they feel, sound and smell – ABC News
• Mapping path from smell to perception – Mirage News

Changing Technologies

• Google Maps adds electric vehicle fast-charger search support – Drive
• AR-based search with Live View for Google Maps coming soon – GSMArena.com
• Cleveland replaces maps with tablets in snowplows, to clear roads more efficiently – cleveland.com
• Mobile Mapping Hardware and Software for all Professionals – Geo Week News
• Nexar Releases CityStream™ Live, the Real-Time Mapping Platform for the Modern Mobility Ageprnewswire.com
• Saildrone to expand its seabed mapping missions in Atlantic, Pacific – defensenews.com
• Tiger sharks with cameras on their backs map ‘world’s biggest’ seagrass meadow in Bahamas – ABC News
• The world’s largest indoor mapping deployment goes live at a leading home improvement store chain in the US – prnewswire.com
• Innoviz and Kudan Announce Partnership for LiDAR-Based Geospatial Mapping Solution Across Various Industries and Use-Cases – prnewswire.com
• Archaeologists mapping Spring Bay cornfield for future excavation – pjstar.com

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.