eCARTO News capture 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.
Cartographers
- The Maps of Forever – fountainink.in
- Five Irish brothers who mapped the British Empire – eurekalert.org
Map Repositories and Resources
- University of Auckland Library map collection – auckland.ac.nz
- Reference Library unveils the Art of Cartography exhibit – metronews.ca
- Cartographic Design Tips and Resources – github.com
- Material Design Colors – materialui.co
Industry News
- TripAdvisor scoops up social mapping service Citymaps – techcrunch.com
- Uber is investing $A663 million into mapping to reduce its reliance on Google – news.com.au
- Open-source mapping company Mapbox acquires passive fitness app-maker Human for its anonymized data – mobihealthnews.com
- Esri Maps NOAA’s National Water Model – businesswire.com
- Google Maps beta adds enhancements to navigation mode and new coordinate scheme – greenbot.com
Mapping the Urban Environment
- Vacant New York: Mapping all of Manhattan’s empty storefronts – 6sqft.com
- Young Egyptians Are Leading Cairo’s Transit Mapping Revolution – citylab.com
- Stunning animation shows London Underground’s ‘beating heart’ pulsing with passengers – wired.co.uk
- Bike share mapping creates beautiful portraits of London, NYC and Berlin – theguardian.com
- Satellite images can map poverty – sciencemag.org
- Google Goes Beyond the Map to Catalog Rio’s Troubled, Vibrant Favelas – fortune.com
- Five wonderful London maps from ‘Curiocity’ – timeout.com
Mapping the Natural Environment
- ‘Gurgle Maps’ to reveal sea’s deep secret – thetimes.co.uk
- How Climate Change Will Affect Animal Migration, in One Map – citylab.com
- Research ship mapping Arctic Ocean near North Pole – cbc.ca
- New global migration mapping to help fight against infectious diseases – sciencedaily.com
- Scientists implementing a Google Maps-esque approach to unearthing the secrets of the world’s oceans – news.com.au
- Mapping the Hidden Worlds Beneath Greenland’s Ice – nationalgeographic.com
- Mapping the Movement of Energy Under Japan – eos.org
- New Map Shows Only a Tiny Sliver of Antarctica Is Ice-Free—For Now – vice.com
- NSW renewable energy resources map – nsw.gov.au
Hinting at Mapping Futures
- The future of the map – searchengineland.com
- New report examines the digital map market 2016 global analysis, research and forecast to 2020 – whatech.com
- Tiny robots to map the universe – news.com.au
- Quantamentals, signal surfing and fast walkers: mapping the rise of weirs data – theconversation.com
- Dark Energy Survey: Mapping the Expansion of the Universe – space.com
- Google’s latest Maps experiment turns the Himalayas into a 3D playground – theverge.com
Mapping Applications
- Mapping ‘Pre-Crime’ in Rio – citylab.com
- Mapping Canada by Population Instead of Land Area – huffingtonpost.com
- Mapping the Greatest Empires of History – visualcapitalist.com
- PSMA Australia and DigitalGlobe accelerate continent-scale mapping – spatialsource.com.au
ICA Facebook Posts
- Cartographic Design Principles: Summary – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- What is a Horizontal Datum Reference Frame? – gisgeography.com
- How Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Works – gisgeography.com
- Choropleth Maps – A Guide to Data Classification – gisgeography.com
- These colorful maps reveal how Earth would look if you could see gravity – techinsider.io
- The Outlines of Continents Can Be Visualized By Shipping Routes – moverdb.com
- How The Gorgeous Language Of Maps Helps Us Understand The World – huffingtonpost.com.au
- Map Projection Distortion (Animation) – youtube.com
- The True Size of Countries – thetruesize.com
Cartography and the Internet
- Info-Geo-Tecno – twitter.com
- US couple sues IP mapping firm over ‘digital hell’ – bbc.com
- This global map shows where the internet lives – cnet.com
- The reach of the internet is revealed: Stunning map shows EVERY web-connected device on the planet – dailymail.co.uk
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