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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