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.
Just Maps
- Let Your Mind Wander With These Gloriously Detailed Maps – atlasobscura.com
- 100 Amazing World Maps – farandwide.com
- 50 Cool Maps of Europe for Geography Buffs – farandwide.com
- Fascinating maps that show the world as you’ve never seen it – telegraph.co.uk
- Maps On The Web – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
- Australia 1942 – collections.lib.uwm.edu
- 8 Stunning Maps That Changed Cartography – www.wired.com
- A new map reveals which parts of the US are most at risk of earthquakes in unprecedented detail — including quakes caused by people – businessinsider.com
Women in Cartography
- Women in American Cartography – rowman.com
- The Women Who Shaped The World – futuremaps.com
- Barbara Washburn: Remembering the Renowned Mountaineer and Cartographer – visiontimes.com
- Children taught to draw and read maps – standardmedia.co.ke
- The Cartographer Who’s Transforming Map Design – wired.com
- How 20th-Century Women Put the ‘Art’ in Cartography – citylab.com
Other Cartographers
- Cartographer Jobs: Are They Still Relevant in the 21st Century? – gisgeography.com
- World-famous Bartholomew cartography empire put Edinburgh on the map – edinburghnews.scotsman.com
- Tim Robinson: a life of three halves – irishtimes.com
- How a Globemaker Navigates a Digital World – atlasobscura.com
- Mapping a Nation: Japan’s Most Famous Cartographer, Inō Tadataka – nippon.com
- Notable Cartographers and Their Maps (revisited) – gislounge.com
- Master Cartographer shares his craft – youtube.com
- James Cook and his secret journey of discovery – dw.com
Cartographic Products
- Atlas of Oblique Maps – pubs.usgs.gov
- European globes of the 17–18th centuries – bl.uk
- Maps, globes, and plans: an ongoing census of free digital archives, #1 – air4edu.com
- Maps, globes, and plans: an ongoing census of free digital archives, #2 – air4edu.com
- Maps, globes, and plans: an ongoing census of free digital archives, #3 – air4edu.com
- Maps, globes, and plans: an ongoing census of free digital archives, #4 – air4edu.com
- History of Ayutthaya – ayutthaya-history.com
- A First Time Ever Geological Map of the Moon – communalnews.com
- What maps reveal about our surroundings (and ourselves) – americamagazine.org
Cartographic Inquiry
- When examining maps, understand their strengths and limitations – newsbreak.com
- What are star charts? – space.com
- Understanding Digital Technology and Fourth Industrial Revolution – lankaweb.com
- Big Data and Urbanism: How to Organize Information for Optimal Application – archdaily.com
- 6 Advantages and Disadvantages of Peters Map Projection – Green Garage – newslagoon.com
Cartographic Industry News
- Lonely Planet: The Publisher That Shrank The World Is Now Itself Shrinking – independent.co.uk
Cartography related items
- Mont-Saint-Michel: The historic 3D model comes to life – microsoft.com
- Amid a Pandemic, Geography Returns With a Vengeance – wired.com
- Smart Navigation: From paper charts to augmented reality – yachtingmonthly.com
- 4 Earth Intelligence Launches Satellite Land Use Mapping Service – directionsmag.com
- World Geography Games – world-geography-games.com
- Armchair Travel – The Latest Fad Amidst COVID-19 Crisis – yourstory.com/mystory
- How to Visit Barcelona Without Leaving Home – independent.co.uk
- Leicester Sprint Project uses Artificial Intelligence to Insurance Sector – geospatialworld.net
Podcasts
- “Maps and Messages: Deconstructing Persuasive Cartography” –
persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu - “Indigenous and European Visualizations of the North West Passage” – youtu.be
- 17 Fascinating World Map Oddities – Map Society of Wisconsin Lecture – youtube.com
- Utah Public Radio. – upr.org
- The British Library also has a map podcast. – bl.uk
Cartographic Reads
- Out of Vietnam, Drawings of Displacement and Repression – hyperallergic.com
- Terra Incognita by Jamie Kirkpatrick – talbotspy.org
- Why old-fashioned paper maps are better than Google Maps – traveller.com.au
- Times, FT and WaPo discover ‘real appetite’ for data-driven visual journalism on coronavirus – pressgazette.co.uk
- How GIS Maps Go Viral – imiamaps.org
- Why we explored two starkly different futures for the Earth in 50 years – nationalgeographic.com
- Mapping the Future: Cartography Stages a Comeback – www.wired.com
- How shipwreck hunter’s search for a sunken galleon and lost engraved stone could rewrite Australian history by proving the Spanish landed more than a CENTURY before Captain Cook – dailymail.co.uk
- Excerpt: A Pirate’s pilfered atlas – nationalgeographic.com
Cartography Books & Resources
- Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape – books.google.com.au
- Atlas of Remote Islands – goodreads.com
- The Boundless Sea by David Abulafia review – a fascinating voyage of discovery – theguardian.com
- A directory of cartographic inventors – oskicat.berkeley.edu
- Top 40 Cartography Blogs & Websites for Cartographers To Follow in 2020 – blog.feedspot.com
Cartography and Movies
- 10 films where maps play a starring role – 360.here.com
- Maps in Movies Ranked – medium.com
- maps in films – The Cine-Tourist – thecinetourist.net
- 5 Incredibly Detailed Maps That Explore the Plotlines of Great Movies – mentalfloss.com
- This movie about a famous cartographer just hit theaters in South Korea – geoawesomeness.com
- The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain – imdb.com
Cartography – Quirky
- ‘CARTOGRAPHY’ is a 11 letter word starting with C and ending with Y – the-crossword-solver.com
- Check out this transfer lettering catalog from 1984! – comicsbeat.com
- How To Do Map Stuff – docs.google.com
- If European Borders Were Drawn By DNA Instead Of Ethnicity – brilliantmaps.com
- Your Maps of Life Under Lockdown – citylab.com
- An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands – tor.com
Online Map Jigsaw
- Create an Online Jigsaw of Your Own Map – jigsawexplorer.com
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