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.
ICA Facebook Posts
- Persuasive Cartography: How Maps are Used to Shape Our Beliefs – geolounge.com
- Cartography: Flattening Earth – scientificamerican.com
- Tissot’s Indicatrix: Measuring Distortion in Map Projections – geolounge.com
- Map Traps: Intentional Mapping Errors to Combat Plagiarism – gislounge.com
Cartographic Opportunities
- Caught Mapping – archive.org
- Social Cartographer – curawebservices.mindscope.com
Industry
- Here acquires Micello to add indoor mapping as part of its IoT business unit – techcrunch.com
- An Opensource Startup Dies As Mapping Gets Hotter Than Ever – wired.com
- Apple Maps Gains Indoor Airport Mapping To Make Travelling Less Stressful – independent.co.uk
- TomTom announces mapping technology that will revolutionise how driverless cars operate on our streets – news.com.au
- Bosch joins Intel, BMW, Audi, and Mercedes, buys stake in mapping company Here – arstechnica.com
Opinion
- Inaccurate Environment Agency flood maps distort house prices, claim locals – telegraph.co.uk
- Nobody Lives Here: Mapping Emptiness in the U.S. and Beyond – bigthink.com
- Ocean Mapping Expedition Tracing Magellan’s Voyage Reaches the Philippines – globalvoices.org
Cartographic Resources
- Meta-carto-semiotics – ojs.meta-carto-semiotics.org
- Continental Drift: Theory & Definition – livescience.com
- Even a Kid Can Prove the Earth Is Round: Here’s How – livescience.com
- Earth ‘Breathes’ in Amazing Time-Lapse Video from Space – livescience.com
Cartographic Reveals
- Robots map largest underwater volcanic eruption in 100 years – sciencenews.org
- Schools of Robots Are Mapping the Unknown Features of the Deep Sea – futurism.com
- The Mapping of Massacres – newyorker.com
- Photos: Renaissance World Map Sports Magical Creatures – livescience.com
- Vostok: Lake Under Antarctic Ice – livescience.com
- Down the Drain: How ‘Pulling the Plug’ on Earth’s Oceans Would Look – livescience.com
- Lava Gulps Down GoPro Camera, Which Records the Entire, Fiery Affair – livescience.com
- Mapping the environmental impacts of China’s textile industry – devex.com
- Mapping a world from hell – salon.com
- Mapping the Ghostly Traces of Abandoned Railroads – atlasobscura.com
- UKHO Conducts Seabed Mapping in Belize – maritime-executive.com
The world from above
- North Korea: A Hermit Country from Above – livescience.com
- Scorcher! 2017 Ranked Among Three Hottest Years Ever – livescience.com
- Rare Snowfall in Sahara Desert Seen from Space – livescience.com
- Castle Cloud’ Caught in Spectacular Astronaut Photo – livescience.com
- The Hole in Earth’s Ozone Layer Is Healing – livescience.com
- Bomb Cyclone’ Swirls Across US East Coast in a Stunning View of Earth – livescience.com
- The Bottom of the Ocean Is Sinking – livescience.com
- 6 Strange Sites Spotted on Google Earth in 2017 – livescience.com
- 10 Times Earth Revealed Its Weirdness in 2017 – livescience.com
- What Force Created These Bizarre Cubes in Antarctica’s Ice? – livescience.com
- Discovery: Why Strange, Chalky Swirls Cover the Southern Ocean – livescience.com
Cartography Lite
- Mapbreaking – blog.prototypr.io
- Fitness tracker Strava lights up military base – bbc.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News