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.
Tomorrow and beyond
- Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps – news.mit.edu
- Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping technique uses available Wi-Fi networks – techxplore.com
- This map app will navigate you from your office chair to your airport gate and more – techradar.com
- Uber begins autonomous mapping of Washington D.C. – intelligenttransport
- CEO Spotlight: Amir Farhand of Soar Talks About His Vision to Build the World’s ‘Living’ Map Using Drones and Satellite Imagery – ceoworld.biz
- Mobile mapping market to exceed $40bn by 2024 – spatialsource.com.au
- Florida City Opens Mapping Data Hub for Public Use – govtech.com
- App maps water fountains and refill stations across NZ – nzherald.co.nz
- MIT Uses AI to Create Updated Street Maps from Satellite Imagery – extremetech.com
- Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe – quantamagazine.org
Cartographic Memories
- Sunsetting Traditional NOAA Paper Charts – nauticalcharts.noaa.gov
- The Best Map History Books of the Decade – mappingasprocess.net
- Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe, by Katharina N. Piechocki – timeshighereducation.com
Mapping for Humanity
- Intel, Red Cross: Mapping For Disasters With AI – crn.com
- Maps show where coronavirus started and why officials are so worried – washingtonpost.com
- Mapping the Global Flow of Foreign Aid – visualcapitalist.com
- How Aid Groups Map Refugee Camps That Officially Don’t Exist – wired.com
- Budgetary support sought to map unprotected monuments in State – thehindu.com
Cartographic Applications
- Mapping Potholes by Phone – nytimes.com
- Long-term Mapping Key to Effective Management of Irrigated Areas – msutoday.msu.edu
- Map tracks the Wuhan virus in real time – asiatimes.com
- High-tech Map shows Fruit, Macadamia Farms Hit by Bushfires – freshfruitportal.com/news
Indexes and Catalogues
- NOAA Custom Chart Prototype – devgis.charttools.noaa.gov
Cartographic Industry News
- Inpixon’s Indoor Mapping Platform Selected for Patient Wayfinding – geospatialworld.net
- TomTom To Supply Maps, Navigation, Live Services For Fiat Chrysler’s Uconnect 5 – nasdaq.com
- Patent awarded for indoor map generation – spatialsource.com.au
Cartographic Technology – Reflection
- Technology changing how people use maps, how they’re created – wtvr.com
Cartography – Opportunities
- Special Issue: Fractal Geometry in Cartography and Geographic Information Science – utpjournals.press
- 6th International Conference on Risk Information Management, Models and Applications – rimma2020.org
- Maps Season – events – bl.uk
- MoU inked for surveying, mapping jobs of Islamabad – thenews.com.pk
Cartographic Dreams
- Building a Company with Maps – infoq.com
Cartographic Resources & Publications
- 100 Days That Mapped The Nation – newhollandpublishers
- Mapping as Process – mappingasprocess.net
- Antarctica Map and Satellite Image – gisgeography.com
Cartography – fringe
- Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale – thunderworksgames.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News