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.
Cartography – A World View
- Mount Everest is now two feet taller – nationalgeographic.com
- A view from the top of the world – collection.sl.nsw.gov.au
- Listen To The World: Global Sound Map From Cities & Memory – brilliantmaps.com
- Submarine Cable Map – submarinecablemap.com
- 3D Mapping of The Global Climate – vividmaps.com
- Pangea – twitter.com
- Weather4VR – apps.apple.com
- Visualizing the World’s 100 Biggest Islands – visualcapitalist.com
Cartographic Crime
- How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief – atlasobscura.com
- Drone Privacy Laws Around the World Mapped – vividmaps.com
Cartographic Communication
- How to Communicate with Maps – gislounge.com
- Maps Undergo Major Reshuffle – scienceblog.com
Cartography – Interactive
- Open Sea Map – map.openseamap.org
- Meandering in response to the Dead Sea level drop (1996–2017) – youtube.com
- False colour images of the Padma River – buff.ly/2B9DBMz
Cartographic Algorithms
- Machine Learning and Object Detection in Spatial Analysis – gislounge.com
- Machine Learning and Object Detection for the rest of us – mapscaping.com
Mapping Applications
- Vilas amazônicas circulares originadas do século 14 ao 18 são descobertas – revistagalileu.globo.com
- 3D Maps: A Complete Guide To See Earth in 3D – gisgeography.com
Sharing – real or virtual
- OSGeo at FOSDEM 2021 – osgeo.org
- IMIA Virtual Holiday Social – us02web.zoom.us
- The MapScaping Podcast – GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing – plnk.to
- GISPO – gispo.fi
- Map Curator – David Jones – vimeo.com
Cartography Sources & Resources
- Aerial Photographs Tutorial (2.0) – mines.libwizard.com
- History of Cartography – geography.wisc.edu
- The History of Cartography Project. – youtube.com
- GIS Cartography 3rd Edition – books.google.com
- At the Intersection of Geography & Data Science – towardsdatascience.com
- Elevation models for reproducible evaluation of terrain representation – tandfonline.com
Just Maps
- Plan of Dalkeith – maps.nls.uk
- 7 Tube Maps Only The Colour Blind Will Truly Appreciate – brilliantmaps.com
- Map of The United States in Esperanto – brilliantmaps.com
- “The Palm of God’s Hand” A Map of the Coachella Valley by Dolores d’Ambly (1946) – reddit.com
- Atlas of design – atlasofdesign.bigcartel.com
- The Stevenson Maps and Plans of Scotland – cdcs.ed.ac.uk
History
- The intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories – bbc.com
- William Hacke: A Pirate’s Cartographer – blogs.loc.gov
Allied to Cartography
- ‘Maps are stories made visual’: Indigenous mapping in Sask. part of international virtual workshop – cbc.ca
- A Guide to Map Stationary – maproomblog.com
- Britian from above – britainfromabove.org.uk
- A Slice Through America – maproomblog.com
- Unbound – Ask a Conservator – blog.library.si.edu
- From daguerreotypes to glass plates: Australia’s oldest images – photo essay – theguardian.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News