eCARTO News September 2021

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 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

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 August 2021

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

eCARTO News July 2021

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

Category: eCARTO News, General News

(Re)watch the first ICA Webinar: Mapping for a Sustainable World

Wednesday July 14, the International Cartographic Association, together with the United Nations, organized its first ever webinar Mapping for a Sustainable World based on the book with the same title just published by the United Nations. The authors, both from the International Cartographic Association and United Nation’s Geospatial Information Section took the 80 participants on a journey along the timeline of the creation of the book and shared their experiences.

The webinar can be (re)watched here:

The webinar aimed at those who want to create and use “SDG maps” to achieve a Sustainable World in the classroom and beyond and are interested in Open Education. It offers guidelines for mapping geographic datasets related to the SDGs at both regional and global scales. Applied examples and open data that can be used in Geography coursework as well as best practices for cartographic design are presented throughout the book and were highlighted during the webinar.

Category: General News

Tag: ICA webinar, Mapping for a Sustainable World, UN-GGIM

Announcement: First ICA Webinar on Mapping for a Sustainable World

The United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an effort to address the most pressing problems facing our world. Well-designed maps and diagrams can assist in achieving these goals.

With this in mind the International Cartographic Association together with United Nations Geospatial Information Section has written the book Mapping for a Sustainable World. It offers guidelines for mapping geographic datasets related to the SDGs at both regional and global scales. Applied examples and open data that can be used in Geography coursework as well as best practices for cartographic design are presented throughout the book.

The authors of the book will take you on a journey of the timeline of the creation of the book and will share their experiences. We look at the creation, the content and the use of the book.

This webinar taking place on July 14, 2021 at 16:00 CET, will be of interest to those who want to create and use “SDG maps” to achieve a Sustainable World in the classroom and beyond and are interested in Open Education.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://utwente-nl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcu6tpzotEtPSSfpqSYDm83XSLcjzH124
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Category: General News

Tag: ICA webinar, Mapping for a Sustainable World, UN-GGIM

eCARTO News June 2021

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

Category: eCARTO News, General News

Special Issue: Cartographers write about Cartography, International Journal of Cartography – complete issue published on-line

The new issue of the International Journal of Cartography is now published online.

Editorial: Cartographers Write About Cartography

The year 2020, and the COVID-19 virus presented challenges for communities worldwide. Our Cartography and GIScience international ‘family’ was not immune to the impacts of health issues, movement restrictions and the need to operate altogether differently to what we had done in the past. One of the impacts of restricted travel has been the re-scheduling of the ICA conference ICC2021 from June to December 2021. At the time of writing there’s hope, but not yet certainty that we can meet in person in December.

We thought that we would ‘re-position’ one of the issues of the International Journal of Cartography to provide a way that members of our international community could continue discourse about our discipline during this ‘hiatus’ in face-to-face international cartographic activities.

We have therefore allocated this second edition (7.2) for 2021 to a series of ‘invited essays’, where we invited a number of Cartographers to write about Cartography – personal essays on a particular map, geospatial product, or cartographic issue. We (deliberately) asked invited contributors to write a short, illustrated essay, rather than a formal paper, so as to be able to express the qualities they saw as being important in a particular artefact. These are very much personal reflections.

We were interested in developing a publication that explored what we think about certain maps that move and inspire us – as cartographers and designers, as geospatial scientists and geographers.

When we look at some maps or atlases we sometimes just ‘like them’, or think they ‘work’. They are something special. They can work, artistically, scientifically, technically – or in all three of these areas. We generally limit our appreciation to some ‘note to self’ or by commenting about the artefact we admire to a close friend or colleague, or by a brief comment on social media. We very rarely express our longer-form thoughts about them to a wider audience.

We believe that this Special Issue has provided the vehicle for this to occur, at least for the small proportion of cartographic works on show.

The authors that contributed to this Special Issue of the Journal were asked to pen a personal illustrated essay. We asked them to explain why their chosen map or cartographic artefact works and to provide an analysis of the attributes of the product that they believed make it successful. Here, they were asked to emphasise why it works, even though this was perhaps a personal viewpoint, unsupported by analytical research. If in fact why it works cannot be pinpointed, the author’s personal viewpoint was sought. (Our thinking was that maybe what they were writing about was considered to be like a piece of art – “it’s just great, but I don’t know why it works”.)

When compiling our list of ‘invitees’ we were faced with a dilemma: our discipline is one that is rich with well-respected, talented and innovative researchers and practitioners. Looking at what they have done, and continue to do, is truly amazing. We would have liked to invite them all! However, our issue page limit disallowed this. So, we invited potential contributors to enable a representation of the diverse nature of the areas of endeavour in our field, hailing from many parts of the globe, being at different stages of their careers and, importantly for us, as editors, be willing to join us on this journey. We are glad to report that we received much interest and encouragement from invited authors, who were keen to share their passion for maps, in their many forms and applications. The enthusiastic support from contributors confirmed our thinking that an issue like this, with a focus on personal observations of maps, would make a wonderful vehicle for promoting conversations about our field of endeavour.

We believe that this collection of essays will make an important contribution to the contemporary literature on cartography and GI science and promote discourse on these maps and cartographic artefacts. We hope it will generate pleasure and stimulate creativity. Further, that in exploring cartographic work in this way we might encourage similar approaches to other work, acknowledging the value of personal perspectives and opinion as much as scholarly critique. Both have value.

William Cartwright, Melbourne, Australia
Anne Ruas, Paris, France
Kenneth Field, Redlands, United States of America
Editors, International Journal of Cartography Special Issue – Cartographers write about Cartography

The contents of the issue are:

Editorial: Cartographers Write About Cartography by William Cartwright, Anne Ruas and Kenneth Field
The Heart of the Grand Canyon by Tom Patterson
OCTOPUS MAPPING one of the MADMAPS: NATO Octopus, control over the weapons’ sales by Christine Zanin and Nicolas Lambert
The Mediterranean Basin Map Designed by Michel Morel by Anne Ruas
Peeling back the layers of a school wall map: Brunhes-Deffontaines “France Forestière” by Nicholas Chrisman
The Unicorn of Map Projections by Sarah Battersby
Reinhard Maack and the Brandberg (Namibia) by Imre Demhardt
Linear and Painterly Expression in Topographic Works of Art during the Enlightenment by Beata Medyńska-Gulij
UNVEILING SOUTHERN AFRICA: JOHN BARROW’S MAP OF 1801 by Elri Liebenburg
Reorienting the Narrative: Chapin Jr.’s “Red China” Map by Ian Muehlenhaus
The Geologic Map of the Cassini Quadrangle on the Moon: Planetary Cartography Between Science, Efficacy and Cartographic Aesthetics by Andrea Naß and Stephan van Gasselt
Revealing the value of geospatial information with isochrone maps for improving the management of heart attacks in South Africa by Serena Coetzee, Lourens Snyman and Rhena Delport
Map as biography: maps, memory, and landscape – thoughts on Ordnance Survey map, Sheet TR04, 1:25,000 Provisional Edition, Ashford. by Peter Vujakovic
Interactive Videodiscs: Beginnings of Multimedia and Catalyst for Multimedia Cartography by William Cartwright
The best map ever? by Menno-Jan Kraak
Cartography Is Here. [full stop] by Igor Drecki
My first Atlas by Carla Cristina Reinaldo Gimenes de Sena
Graphical-statistical Atlas of Switzerland, 1914 by Thomas Schultz
Matthew Picton’s Urban Narratives. Or how a three-dimensional paper map can beam you into the London bombing nights of 1940 by Thomas Streifeneder and Barbara Piatti
Seeing the “perfect world” through Heinrich Berann’s Panorama Maps of the Alps by Georg Gartner
The Soviet Military 1:10,000 City Plan of Dover, UK (1974) by Alexander Kent
Reflections on the creation of cartographic expression through the representation of elevation by Takashi Morita
Separating fact from fiction: the mythology of cartographic icons by Kenneth Field
Measuring geodetic baselines in Spain during the 1850’s by Andrés Arístegui
MapQuest and the beginnings of Web Cartography by Michael Peterson

International Journal of Cartography
Special Issue: Cartographers write about Cartography
Number 2 Volume 7 2021
ISSN:2372-9333

Category: General News

Tag: International Journal of Cartography

eCARTO News May 2021

Cartography reporting

World Development Report 2021 Maps and Figures – worldbank.org
Mapping risk across the globe – controlrisks.com

History

Notable Cartographers and Their Maps – gislounge.com
Viabundus – landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de
Historiske kart – kartverket.not

Opinion

The Unsolved Mystery of Sri Lanka’s “Stargate” – bbc.com
3 Advantages of Paper Maps Over Digital Maps – gisgeography.com
You Can’t Have a One to One Mapping of American History – ctexaminer.com
Maps can bridge gaps between citizens, scientists and policymakers – theconversation.com
Google Maps is About to Get a Lot More Useful – thurrott.com

Cartographic collections

A Guide to the Library of Congress’s Collection of Fire Insurance Maps – maproomblog.com

Cartographic Applications

Tracking Civic Space – monitor.civicus.org
Canadian Passenger Rail in 1955 and 1980 – maproomblog.com
Going global: Western migration mapping project adopted by international science group to aid conservation – postregister.com

Atlases and Globes

Atlas of Demography’ – migration-demography-tools.jrc.ec.europa.eu
International team partners with UN to launch global initiative to map ungulate migrations – eurekalert.org
Globemakers – instagram.com
UO geographers map out new conservation opportunities – miragenews.com
A digital atlas for all the worlds maps and imagery – soar.earth
Allen Coral Atlas – allencoralatlas.org

Sharing Our Cartography

Mai Ghaly Cartography Portfolio – mai-ghaly-cartography-portfolio
Mapping Our World – loc.gov
A Gray Accessible Basemap – esri.com
Magnets, Math, and Diagrams: Turning Visual Aids into Navigational Technology – video.ibm.com

Cartographic Industry News & Research & Information

Boletín semanal de Nosolosig – mailchi.mp
Hiring: Part Time Junior Graphic Designer | Cartographer – bellerbyandco.com
Area burned adjustments to historical wildland fires in Canada – iopscience.iop.org
Accessing data from large online rasters with Cloud-Optimized-Geotiff, GDAL, and terra R package – frodriguezsanchez.net
Cool GeoViewer Features – geospatialonline.com
How GPS Receivers Work – Trilateration vs Triangulation – gisgeography.com
Where is the Central Meridian? – gisgeography.com
Mapping micronutrients in grain and soil unearths hidden hunger in Africa – nature.com
Terradepth Autonomous Sub Dives Into Mapping World’s Oceans, Making Data Freely Available – forbes.com
Birds dealing with change — Mapping migration routes can lead to conservation areas – eurekalert.org
54^th annual conference of CARTO – acmla-acacc.ca
Mapping the World, the Belgian contribution – imcos2021brussels

World Cartographic Products

Indian Ocean, including Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia – nla.gov.au
Maps of the World – nationsonline.org
Global mapping of urban–rural catchment areas reveals unequal access to services – pnas.org
Gridded Bathymetric Data – gebco.net/
GEBCO Seabed2030 project – gebco.net
Mapping populations – worldpop.org
Windy – windy.com

Just Maps

Native land – native-land.ca
Ethnic composition of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1910 – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
El mapa de la calidad de vida en Europa – elordenmundial.com
10 Topographic Maps From Around the World – gisgeography.com
Uruguay Mapa Politico – elordenmundial.com

Odd Spot (x,y)

A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France: the weird and wonderful history of man-made borders – abc.net.au
25 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try – au.pcmag.com
Kiribati & Interesting Facts About Its Geographic Anomalies – brilliantmaps.com

Kindred

Iceye unveils new wide-area imaging capability – spacenews.com
National Baseline of High-resolution 3D Data – gwprime.geospatialworld.net
TCarta Delivers Satellite-Derived Bathymetry to NOAA for U.S. Coastal Mapping Pilot – gisuser.com
Plex-Earth expands to BricsCAD with satellite and aerial imagery – aecmag.com

Category: eCARTO News, General News

eCARTO News April 2021

Cartographers

Joshua Miele: Hands-On Mapping: The Story of a Blind Cartographer – disability.stanford.edu
Female mapmakers – othercartographies.com
Piri Reis: Admiral extraordinaire, the champion of Ottoman cartography – trtworld.com
Young drone cartographer puts record-breaking on the map – guinnessworldrecords.com
SU Yu Hsin’s Digital Cartography – artnews.com
Meet Venna, a Vizag-based illustrator weaving magic with cartography – yovizag.com
How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change – newyorker.com
Geoinspirations Podcast Series: Dr. Paulette Hasier – Curating Generations of Cartography – directionsmag.com
The SoPo Cartographer Who Turns Maps Into Art – downeast.com
Lockdown no bar, over 1,000 students honing skills in cartography – newindianexpress.com

History

Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe – bbc.com
The Historical Importance of India’s Cartography Reforms – swarajyamag.com

Opinion

Digital Maps to hold the future of smart cities, autonomous cars, and much more – geospatialworld.net
Mapping the path to rewilding: The importance of landscape – sciencedaily.com
Internet Debates Worst Navigation App After Hilarious Google Maps Tweet – newsweek.com

Cartography and Society

Audubon Spotlight: Vero Couttee Uses Maps to Break the Cycle of Injustice – audubon.org
How One Man – And A Creative Map – Made A Difference In Panama’s COVID-19 Crisis – npr.org
First ever village-level mapping of childhood undernutrition in India reveals sharp local disparities – hsph.harvard.edu

Cartographic Applications

Scientists develop new mapping model to save Africa’s cycad plants from extinction – weforum.org
Ground and satellite observations map building damage after Beirut explosion – sciencedaily.com
Where is it hottest in the Triangle? Researchers set out to map urban heat islands. – newsobserver.com

Atlases

World Wine Regions – worldwineregions.com
What Would It Look Like to Decolonize Cartography? A Volunteer Group Has Ideas – hyperallergic.com

How To

How to Create a Map from Excel Data – techbullion.com
Best Practices for Getting and Using Your Google Maps API Key – searchenginejournal.com
Getting started with digital mapping tools – nrtoday.com

Cartographic Industry News

Hydro International – hydro-international
Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – au.news.yahoo.com
Exyn Technologies’ drones achieve autonomy milestone with on-board mapping – au.news.yahoo.com
Drone operators challenge surveyors’ turf in mapping dispute – conchovalleyhomepage.com
Strava personal heatmaps go 3D | Satellite imagery and in-app mapping also updated – bikeradar.com
Google promises better 3D maps – techcrunch.com
Airborne Digital Mapping Camera Market to move forward with regards to technological upgradations in the next 10 years – mccourier.com

Cartographic Trickery

Deepfake tech takes on satellite maps – techcrunch.com
Why ‘deepfake geography’ presents significant risks — and how researchers are detecting it – geekwire.com

Cartographic Reveals

Drainage basins of the world’s longest rivers – vividmaps.com
Draining the oceans – geo_spatialist
How to map the seabed from the sky – economist.com
Mapping memories through cartography – newindianexpress.com
World’s Largest Map of Space Offers Clues on Dark Energy – scientificamerican.com
Mapping the World’s Key Maritime Choke Points – visualcapitalist.com

Cartography Related

30 GIS Software Applications [Rankings] – gisgeography.com
USGS Landsat Satellites Enable Google to Portray Global Change – usgs.gov
Automatic Shipwreck Detection in Bathymetry Data – hydro-international

Category: eCARTO News, General News

eCARTO News March 2021

Cartographers

Highlighting Five Fantastic Women in the Geospatial Industry – maps.com
Holly Price – cartography.org.uk

Cartographic Standards, Guidelines and Rules

OGC membership approves new Community Standard: Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) – ogc.org

Mapping the Environment

How community mapping of storm water drains is fighting evictions in Karachi’s informal settlements – preventionweb.net
Seafarer App Mapping Ocean Pollution Used to Clear Isle of Man Beaches – maritime-executive.com
EDODnet Unveils New Pan-European Shoreline-migration Map – hydro-international.com

Online Cartography

OS OpenMap – Local Buildings & Function Sites in the Living Atlas – resource.esriuk.com
Looking forward to the new Map Viewer – resource.esriuk.com
Web application cartography: mapping out Burp Suite’s crawler – portswigger.net
Mapping internet shutdowns around the world – aljazeera.com

Cartographic Discussion & Discoveries

Can This New Map Fix Our Distorted Views of the World? – nytimes.com
What scientists found while mapping underwater continent off Australia – brisbanetimes.com.au

The Psychology of Maps

How Maps Affect Perception – gislounge.com
Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor – hyperallergic.com

Just Maps

Map of Windmills In The Netherlands: Historic vs Modern – britishbusinessenergy.co.uk
World Map Used in North Korea – brilliantmaps.com
Europe At Night – brilliantmaps.com
The Incredible Map of Venice That Changed Cartography Forever – telegraph.co.uk
New ‘Map of Life’ Reveals Where Unknown Animals May Still Live on Earth – sciencealert.com
A pocket guide to Mars – spaceref.com

Cartographic Industry News

South Korean Mapping Satellite Reaches Orbit – hackaday.com

Cartography Sources, Resources and Opportunities

“ISSonVis 2021- Geovisualization in Maps – geoinformatics.upol.cz
Research Associate in Digital History on the Machines Reading Maps project – cartography.org.uk
Cartographic Animation – geography.name
Digitale Geodaten von swisstopo sind neu kostenlos und können frei genutzt warden – swisstopo.admin.ch
The Long Enlightenment – woodslane.com.au
ANZMapS newsletter – anzmaps.org
Call for Papers – Coordinating Cartographic Collections history.icaci.org
Japanese Maps Collection launches on Manchester Digital Collections – rylandscollections.com
Online Rumsey Maps Reach 105,000. Part Two – 2017 Additions – davidrumsey.com
Public Research Fellows in History and Geography – leventhalmap.org

Cartography Reads, Reviews and Rewinds

When Maps Become the World. h-net.org
The Border Mistake That Created a Disputed Territory – youtube.com
Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries – visualcapitalist.com
3D Mapping The Largest Population Density Centers – visualcapitalist.com
Linking maps to crime scenes and revealing unseen connections – resource.esriuk.com
Cartography Animated – harvardmagazine.com
Looking back 500 years – opinion.inquirer.net

Cartography Related (perhaps!)

On the Survival of Polynesian Voyaging – maps.com
Disboard – disboard.org
50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World – visualcapitalist.com
Most Used Emoji’s Around the World – reddit.com
GIS job listings – gislounge.com
Sound waves from fin whale songs could help us study Earth’s crust – newscientist.com
Vintage Lego Topographical Map – ideas.lego.com
Best Handheld GPS Receivers – gisgeography.com
Leonardo da Vinci Cartographer and Inventor of the Google Map is finalist in book cover design competition. – prurgent.com
ITV Invests $2.7M In UK Mapping Tech Startup What3words – deadline.com
Mapping the Arizona Snowbowl for functional and artistic use – azdailysun.com
Surveyors Wanted to Shut this Drone Photographer Down. Now, He’s Fighting Back. – dronelife.com

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