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.
Investigative cartography
- “Monsters & Dragons?” –Mapping the Terra Incognito of Milky Way’s Unseen Far Side – dailygalaxy.com
- Smoke mapping technology could change face of fire fighting – radionz.co.nz
- Why researchers are mapping the world’s manure – sciencedaily.com
- Mapping the Spread of Words Along Trade Routes – visualcapitalist.com
- Mapping the Global Migration of Millionaires – visualcapitalist.com
- Mapping Ice Algal Blooms from Space – eos.org
- Mapping Where Traffic Pollution Hurts Children Most – citylab.com
- What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us – smithsonianmag.com
- Mapping Heat Vulnerability to Protect Community Health – eos.org
- So ungleich ist das Einkommen in der Schweiz verteilt – srf.ch
Animated Cartography
- Satellites – they’re out there – stuffin.space
- All the Earthquakes between 1901 & 2000 – youtube.com
- A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – youtube.com
- Notre Dame Cathedral – edition.cnn.com
- The Latitude & Longitude of Population – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
- Trading Places – reddit.com
- Mapping the world in 3D will let us paint streets with augmented reality – technologyreview.com
Cartographic Resources & Opportunities
- How Earth’s tilt causes seasons – khanacademy.org
- Get Started with GIS with these 17 free lessons! – esriinfodesign.maps.arcgis.com
- Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries – visualcapitalist.com
- Call for proposal and Scholarship to State of the Map Africa conference – docs.google.com
Map Action
- MapAction Appeal – Cyclone Idai, Mozambique – mapaction.org
- Community Q&A: MapAction – centre.humdata.org
- Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories – theconversation.com
- China maps waters near PNG’s Manus base – radionz.co.nz
The Beauty of Maps
- Exaggerated relief – instagram.com
- Scott Reinhard Maps – scottreinhardmaps.com
- Digital shadows on vintage maps trick our eyes into learning the landscape – designboom.com
- Exaggerate your Perspective View – www.esri.com
- Anthropomorphic maps – google.com
- Artistic Maps for Great Tew and Bantham Estates – lovelljohns.com
Using the Technology
- Mapping Global Pollution Through AI, Satellite Imagery And Intelligent Drones – forbes.com
Cartographic tracks
- Cyclone Trevor throws migration flight of Far Eastern curlew into disarray – abc.net.au
Category: eCARTO News, General News