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.
Feature
- Lifetime Achievement Honor for Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment – news.syr.edu
Opportunities
- 31st International Cartographic Conference – icc2023.org
- Women in GIS – Awards and Scholarships – womeningis.wildapricot.org
Maps & Atlases & Books
- Three New USGS Astrogeology Science Center Maps Of Mars – spaceref.com
- Atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado docs.moleiro.com
- The Miller Atlas, 1519, the atlas of the first circumnavigation of the world. – youtube.com
- The sixth Edition of the Atlas of Design – atlasofdesign.org
- Book About the Mapping of Greenland – highnorthnews.com
Theory
- Exploring the mathematical universe – connections, contradictions, and kale – theconversation.com
- The power of lines and strokes: How our brain recognizes line drawings – medicalxpress.com
Academia
- Purdue launches new AI-based global forest mapping project – miragenews.com
- The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA) – visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
- Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923 – storymaps.arcgis.com
History
- Map History Books Published in 2022 – mappingasprocess.net
AI-Assisted Mapping
- Revolutionizing planetary exploration: AI-assisted mapping – gim-international.com
- AI Mapping Uncovers Exoplanets: Researchers Develop Method – miragenews.com
Transport
- HD Map for Autonomous Vehicles Market Report 2022 – businesswire.com
- Luminar acquires HD Mapping Startup Civil Maps – geoweeknews.com
- Google Maps Rival Says the Future of Navigation Is All About Car Sensors – autoevolution.com
- Google Maps Chief Sees New Directions for Digital Navigation – wsj.com
- Google’s higher-resolution driving maps will premiere in the Polestar 3 – engadget.com
Cartography Adopting Industries
- Strava acquires 3D mapping platform FATMAP – geoweeknews.com
- Virdee & MapsPeople partner to maximize the hotel guest experience with indoor mapping – traveldailynews.com
- Esri launches interactive mapping tool for state, corporate policymakers – business-standard.com
Risk & Awareness Mapping
- Oregon wants to delay controversial wildfire risk mapping – again – oregonlive.com
- DNR shares results from summer 2022 Milwaukee heat mapping campaign – adysmithnews.com
- Fairtrade launches new map to identify human rights and environmental risks in cocoa and other commodities – confectionerynews.com
- Snow map predicts chances of it falling where you live as UK’s bitter cold snap continues – mirror.co.uk
- Estonian Rescue Board unveils nationwide public shelters online map – news.err.ee
- Social media and aerial mapping of sea floor reveal that tourists love Hawaiian coral reefs just a little too much – phys.org
- It’ll take 150 years to map Africa’s biodiversity at the current rate. We can’t protect what we don’t know – modernghana.com
- Snow Day Forecast – images.squarespace-cdn.com
Imagery
- Mapping Malta’s Seafloor with Satellites – hydro-international.com
- Scientists find new emperor penguin colony via satellite mapping – dailysabah.com
- Astronomers map the “dark chemistry” of outer space – earth.com
- Thermal drone hailed a game changer in koala mapping – abc.net.au
- Tiger sharks with cameras on their backs map ‘world’s biggest’ seagrass meadow in Bahamas – .abc.net.au
- NASA Dust Detective Delivers First Maps From Space for Climate Science – climate.nasa.gov
- Seabed 2030 – oceanservice.noaa.gov
- High Definition Aerial Laser Survey – linz.govt.nz
- Vodafone’s mobile network has a digital twin – vodafone.com
Inspired by Mapping
- YouTuber Gaurav Taneja Draws Largest Map of India By Flying Plane on Republic Day – news18.com
Opinion
- Forget Google Maps: Why Paper Map Sales Are Booming – wsj.com
- Who are the Flat Earthers and what do they believe? – msn.com
- Congressional mapmaker Bob Orr speaks: No one had the ability to ‘cook the books’ – wfae.org
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