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.
Information from Maps
- European Borders In 1914 vs Borders Today – brilliantmaps.com
- NSW bushfires are the EU’s largest emergency mapping operation of 2019 – sbs.com.au
- Breaking the Ice: Mapping a Changing Arctic – visualcapitalist.com
- Momentum Grows for Mapping the Seafloor – eos.org
- Mapping Africa’s ‘high-speed urbanization’ to manage growing infrastructure: Africapolis – sociable.co
Cartographic Challenges
- Help! The London Tube Map Is Out of Control. – citylab.com
- Preserve a one-of-a-kind world map – hornraiser.utexas.edu
- GPS Is Easy to Disrupt, and the Consequences of Disruption Are Serious – maproomblog.com
- Google, Apple maps can get us lost when we need them most – abc.net.au
- Titan’s Geomorphologic Map – blogs.scientificamerican.com
Online Maps
- Caithness Tourist Map – google.com
- 5 Ways Online Maps Can Help Your NGO Or Nonprofit – giscloud.com
- Historical e-atlas United Kingdom – tes.com
- World of Infrastructure – reddit.com
- Ordnance Survey Customises Digital Map for Colour Blind Users – aop.org.uk
Opinion
- Improving the 2020 census with GIS technology – govmatters.tv
Industry News
- Apple has completed the rollout of the new Apple Maps – imore.com
- Google Maps for spectrum? Start-up seeks to deliver dynamic spectrum mapping – rcrwireless.com
- Mitsubishi and NTT to buy 30% of self-driving mapping company Here – ft.comb
- HERE adds two big investors on road to Reality Index mapping – slashgear.com
- Bing Maps Make the Revived Flight Simulator Eerily Realistic – wired.com
Cartographic Resources, Education & Employment
- Thematic Map Design Exhibition – geo.hm.edu
- Living Maps Review – livingmaps.review
- Atlas of Design – atlasofdesign.org
- Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization – muse.jhu.edu
- La cartographie du parcours client, une démarche récente pour beaucoup d’entreprises – paper.li
- 47th Annual CaGIS Map Design Competition – geospatialonline.com
Conferences
- AutoCarto2020 – cartogis.org
- ICCGISGS 2020 – waset.org
- GeoCart’2020 – cartography.org.nz
Cartographic Reminiscing
- 12 years of Google Street View mapping by car, boat and goat – irishtimes.com
- Map quest sends Nova Scotians to attics, basements in search of old charts – cbc.ca
- The Maps That Made You, Dear Readers – citylab.com
Related Technologies, Disciplines & Geographies
- MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [Satellite] – gisgeography.com
- What Happens When the Roof of the World Melts – nationalgeographic.com
- Weather Time Machine – graphics.reuters.com
- Assessment of Urban Green Spaces – monde-geospatial.com
- Mapping words reveals emotional diversity – science.sciencemag.org
- Gamma Radiation Mapping: A System for Topsoil Mapping and Variable Rate Nutrient Application – croplife.com/
- Google Maps satellite images cover 98 percent of the world’s population – engadget.com
Cartographers
- At 19, this engineer built India’s first interactive digital map portal – yourstory.com
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