eCARTO News July 2022

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.

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

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 June 2022

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

31st International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2023): Call for Papers

The 31^st International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2023) will take place 13-18 August 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Call for abstracts and papers

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) invites you to share your research, practice and experiences in cartography and GIScience at the 31^st International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2023), to be held from 13 to 18 August 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Submissions of abstracts (1-2 pages) and full papers (8 pages) in English are accepted, following the respective ICA templates at https://www.ica-conference-publications.net/ica_word_template.html. Abstracts and full papers will be peer reviewed by a minimum of two experts in the field against the following criteria: scientific originality, potential interest to the community, proper documentation of prior work, clarity of presentation, technical correctness and correct use of language. Authors of accepted abstracts and papers will be invited to present their work in English at the ICC 2023, either as oral presentation or as poster. The presenting author must register for the conference. Registered accompanying persons will receive one complementary entry to one technical session of their choice, such as to support a speaker when delivering their presentation.

Accepted abstracts and papers that have been revised to address reviewer comments, will be published in one of the following ICA publications:

Important dates

5 December 2022 – Submission of full papers closes
12 December 2022 – Submission of abstracts closes
February 2023 – Conference registration opens
28 February 2023 – Notification of acceptance
8 May 2023 – Submission of revised abstracts and papers
15 May 2023 – Early Bird registration closes
15 May 2023 – Registration deadline for presenters of abstracts, papers and posters

The link to the submission site and further details about the ICC 2023 will soon be available on the conference website at http://icc2023.org/.

For any queries or more information, please contact scientific-committee@icc2023.org.

Category: General News

Tag: cfp, ICC2023, South Africa

eCARTO News May 2022

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

Category: eCARTO News, General News

eCARTO News April 2022

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

Category: eCARTO News, General News

Invitation to European Cartographic Conference (EuroCarto) 2022

The International Cartographic Association (ICA), the German (DGfK), Austrian (ÖKK), Swiss (SGK) and British (BCS) Cartographic Societies are pleased to announce that the European Cartographic Conference EuroCarto 2022 will take place at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria on September 19–21, 2022.

Cartographers and those working in related disciplines are offered a platform of discussion, exchange and stimulation of research and joined projects. Current research or work related to cartography covering all aspects of modern cartography will be addressed. All submitted abstracts are reviewed and if accepted published in the “Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association“. Several Cartographic Journals, including the International Journal of Cartography, Cartographica, Cartographic Journal, CAGIS and Kartographische Nachrichten have expressed interest in selecting submissions and invite full paper submissions to their respective journal thereafter.

Additionally a number of pre-conference workshops (on generalisation, VR/AR, Social Media Data visualisation, Ethics and Cartography, Atlas Cartography, Toponomy etc.) and side-events (visit to the National Library, MapRun, etc.) are planned.

Call for papers is still open

Please note, that the submission of an abstract is still possible until May 7, 2022. Find the details here: https://eurocarto2022.org/call-for-papers/.

Registration & sponsoring

Registration information can be found here: https://eurocarto2022.org/registration/

If you want to sponsor the event and get a chance to present your company, check out https://eurocarto2022.org/sponsoring-packages/.

As we still love maps, we are looking forward to your contribution and to meet you in Vienna,

Georg Gartner

Category: General News

Tag: Austria, BCS, cfp, DGfK, ÖKK, SGK

Obituary: Eddy Lynn Usery

On March 22, 2022, the world lost a GIS giant and cartography compadre when Dr. E. Lynn Usery, current Chair of the ICA Commission on Map Projections and former ICA Vice-President, passed from this earthly plane. Not even a week earlier, Lynn was busily planning workshops for AutoCarto 2022. He will be sorely missed by ICA and our community, not only for his many research contributions, leadership and vision, and tireless service, but also for his friendship and camaraderie.

Michael Tischler of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) wrote, “On paper, we knew him as the Director of the Center of Excellence for Geographic Information Science [CEGIS]. But he was far more than that title would lead one to believe. Lynn leaves a remarkable legacy given his extraordinary scientific accomplishments, presence as a leader in the geographic science community, and impact on individual geographic scientists inside USGS and around the world.”

It’s a challenge to specify the impact that Lynn has had on the field of GIScience because of the breadth and depth of his involvement and contributions. He was centrally involved in many areas of the discipline, including cartography, GIS, remote sensing, and spatial analysis. His eclectic research interests included digital cartography, map projections, scale and resolution, image classification, temporal GIS, geospatial semantics and ontology, and high-performance computing for geospatial data. It would be difficult to name a subject in our field about which Lynn could not speak knowledgably and insightfully.

Lynn was unique in that his impact came through his careers in both government and academia. Lynn started working for the USGS in 1977. He was a cartographer and geographer for the USGS from 1978 to 1988 focusing on developing automated cartographic production systems. In 1988, he took on a geography faculty position at the University of Wisconsin (UW) – Madison. In January of 1994, he moved to Georgia to serve on the geography faculty at the University of Georgia (UGA). In May of 1999, Lynn took on a Research Geographer position with the USGS in addition to his academic job at UGA. In 2005, he returned to USGS and ultimately conceived and became Director of CEGIS. In this role, he directed the science program and the visions and plans for topographic mapping research. While at USGS, Lynn also taught remote sensing at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

In all his positions, Lynn was a ground breaker. In his early days at USGS, he began the development of digital mapping systems for the automated production of printed topographic maps. At UW, he helped found a GIS program. At UGA, he helped establish certificate programs in GIScience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. When he returned to USGS, he started a cartography research program that led to CEGIS. For CaGIS, he chaired AutoCarto 2005 to close an eight-year gap and resurrect the symposium series. He also spearheaded the effort to bring the International Cartographic Conference back to the United States for only the second time, the first being in 1978.

Lynn was involved in multiple activities of the ICA:

2004–2008 US National Committee to the ICA member
2007–2011 ICA Map Projections Commission Secretary
2007–2015 US National Committee to the ICA Chair
2011–2012 ICA Technology Outreach Working Group Chair
2011–2015 ICA Map Projections Commission Vice Chair
2011 Bid for ICC 2017
2012–2017 ICC 2017 Conference Organizer
2015–2019 ICA Vice President
2018–2019 ICA Body of Knowledge for Cartography Working Group Chair
2019–2022 ICA Map Projections Commission Chair

That Lynn was so involved in the association is admirable. That he did the same with many other societies, at the same time, makes Lynn exceptional and unparalleled. There is truly no match for him in this regard, and really not even anyone in the running. No other person has been elected vice-president of the ICA, president of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS), president of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), and president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), as Lynn was in 2015, 2002, 2004, and 2015, respectively. Additionally, as with the ICA, in all these associations, he also served in other roles.

On a personal note, Lynn was born in December 1951. He had two children, a son Kelynn, born 1986, and a daughter, Lacy, born 1988. Lynn received his BS in geography from the University of Alabama and MA and Ph.D. degrees in geography from UGA. He died Tuesday, March 22, 2022, after a brief illness.

Tim Trainor, President of ICA &
Aileen Buckley, U.S. national representative to ICA

Category: Commission News, General News, Map Projections

Tag: CaGIS, ICC2017, Obituary, USA, USGS

eCARTO News March 2022

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

Category: eCARTO News, General News

ICA News 76 now online

We are pleased to announce that the 76th issue of the ICA News is now available for download:

This issue of ICA News reports on two anniversaries of our national members – New Zealand and Bulgaria – and announces
a new publication devoted to the Barbara Petchenik Children’s World Map competitions. Many thanks for your support.
– Igor Drecki, Editor ICA News

Category: General News

Tag: ICA News

International Cartographic Association Statement on Ukraine

The International Cartographic Association expresses its shock and dismay at the incursion by Russia into the sovereign state of Ukraine. Violation of a sovereign nation is unacceptable. Without provocation, innocent victims within the borders of Ukraine suffer unbearable intrusion and danger causing loss of life, intolerable pain and suffering on children, women and men, mass migrations to neighboring countries, and unnecessary destruction of property. The violent interruption of normalcy undermines global security and stability for every part of our world watching these horrible events unfold.

The International Cartographic Association calls for an end to all actions stemming from the forceful intrusion of Ukraine’s borders and a resolution for restoring the sovereignty of Ukraine and its people. The International Cartographic Association is in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and specifically with cartographers in both Ukraine and Russia who can contribute to protecting the sovereignty of Ukraine while beginning a path back to normalcy.

Category: General News

Tag: Russia, Ukraine