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.
Cartographers
- Carleton’s Fraser Taylor Named to the Order of Canada – carleton.ca
- Pioneer of Cybercartography and Indigenous Mapping Fraser Taylor Named to the Order of Canada – Geospatial World
- 40-year map project, History of Cartography, draws to a close – wisc.edu
- Story of MapMyIndia – hindustantimes.com
Visualisations
- MapLab: Thirty Days of Maps – Bloomberg
- For the love of maps – Mappery
- Die Weltkarte des Castorius : genannt die Peutingersche Tafel – Internet Archive
- British Isles & miscellaneous other countries update – GeoGarage
- Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization – jcheshire.com
- 11 Maps That Will Help You See the World in a Whole New Light – fodors.com
- Map of the Kingdom of Aragon by Juan Bautista Labaña. – loc.gov
- Europe At Night – Brilliant Maps
- Our favourite maps around the world in 2021 – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- Singapore Land Authority Uses 3D Reality Modeling and Mapping – aeccafe.com
- How a Tongan volcano shocked the world – ABC News
- Transit Maps – Maps : inat
- A World Map Centered on Argentina – Brilliant Maps
- A Closer Look at Arrowsmith’s 1834 Map – Tasmanian Geographic
Cartographic Animations
- River runner global – samlearner.com
- Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation – msn.com
- Take a Look at The Largest And Most Detailed 3D Map of The Universe Ever Made – sciencealert.com
- Draining the World’s Oceans to Visualize Earth’s Surface – visualcapitalist.com
- Animated Map: U.S. Droughts Over the Last 20 Years – visualcapitalist.com
- NASA 3D Animation Shows How Gravity Levels Differ Across Our Planet Earth – indiatimes.com
- Migrating Birds In Europe: Map Visualization – Brilliant Maps
Opinion
- The return of paper maps – domusweb.it
- This Planet Ocean: Mapping the Other Two-Thirds of the World – directionsmag.com
Opportunities
- UN Mappers mapathon in 2022 – UN-GGIM Academic Network
- EuroCarto 2022 – eurocarto2022
- El simposio Paisaje y Cartografia – Ombues | Paisaje y Cartografía
- Songlines: the Indigenous Australian exhibition preserving 65,000 years of culture – The Guardian
- Athens show reveals the political and ideological power of geography – eKathimerini.com
- Mapping The Pacific Conference – State Library of NSW
- Atlases in Time – maps-and-atlases.com
Education
- Why is the world map you know wrong? – Live Science
- Useful tools for web mapping – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Retrospectives
- How a Map Mistake Led to the Founding of New York City (New Amsterdam) – YouTube
Monitoring
- NASA Greenland Mission Completes Six Years of Mapping Unknown Terrain – NASA
- Mapping off Pasco and Hernando reveals healthy, growing sea grass meadows – suncoastnews.com
- Real-time mapping assists Tonga – Defence News
- City offers online map to help improve pedestrian, bicycle network – statesman.com
- UIC Researchers Create Interactive Map to Track Pollution – WTTW
Publications
- Gandara-Chacana on Padron, ‘The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West’ [review] – reviews
- Deux siècles de cartographie calédonienne 1774-1979 – caledolivres.nc
- Descarga la revista digital Cartógrafo.CL – cartografo.cl
- Cartography The Ideal and Its History – uchicago.edu
- World Heritage Map – UNESCO
Genesis Technologies
- Cycloramas in Melbourne – slv.vic.gov.au
- Before cinemas existed, this is where you’d go to see the latest blockbuster – ABC News
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