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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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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

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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.

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

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