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.
Featured
- Marie Tharp’s Adventures in Mapping the Seafloor, In Her Own Words – columbia.edu
Large Map Scale Mapping
- Another mapping survey starts in archaeologically-rich Marvdasht plain – tehrantimes.com
- A Complete Cartographic Solution Helping Farmers in Argentina – commercialuavnews.com
Maps Historically Speaking
- Hand Map of Glasgow Harbour and Docks – maps.nls.uk
- 1250 map of Britian – historiacartarum.org
- Selenography – reddit.com
- What’s old is new again – sl.nsw.gov.au
- Historic Maps in Marble – spiceislandsblog.com
- Medieval maps of Paris – vividmaps.com
Cartographic Industry News
- Global Lake Mapping and Bathymetry Market 2025 – 3wnews.org
- Future Prospects of 3D Mapping and Modeling Market – coleofduty.com
- Electronic Cartography Market Projected – businesswire.com
Cartography that visually attracts
- World Elevation – Joy Plot Map – reddit.com
- Cheonhado – loc.gov0
- I make 3D rendered versions of old maps. – reddit.com
- British cartographer strives to create memories for Taiwanese – focustaiwan.tw/society
Atlases
- Stories & Lies: What an Atlas Reveals – directionsmag.com
- An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery – blogs.bl.uk
- The Atlas of Surveillance – maproomblog.com
Cartography Opportunities, Sources, Resources & Research
- ICHC 2021 in Bucharest – call-for-papers
- Maps, globes, and plans: an ongoing census of free digital archives, #6 – air4edu.com
- Australian university adds 5,000 rare, unique Asia-Pacific maps to online collection – geoawesomeness.com/
- Online Rumsey Maps Reach 100000 – davidrumsey.com
- Diseño y análisis de redes de riego mediante QEPANET en QGIS – nosolosig.com
- Best of the Blogs – spatialsource.com.au
Cartography – Discussions
- Creativity, serendipity enhance CGA’s pivot to online classes – wm.edu
- Why the world map froze – axios.com
- Google Maps just got better for cyclists – cyclingtips.com
Cartographic Consequences
- Finding the ‘invisible’ millions who are not on maps – bbc.com
- Map Action – mapaction.org
- The Centre for Humanitarian Data – centre.humdata.org
- Incredibly rare maps of the defeat of the Spanish Armada at risk of export – gov.uk
- Mapping human-elephant conflict hotspots from compensation records – india.mongabay.com
- Mapping the Powerful Oaxaca Earthquake From Space – scitechdaily.com
- Vancouver Island First Nations, regional district to roll out tsunami mapping project – northislandgazette.com
Thematic Cartography
- Grasslands of America – vividmaps.com
- Oldest Company in almost Every Country – geokatalog.de
- Lessons learned from regional temporal land cover mapping – novumintel.com
- Nearest Neighbour Analysis – tjukanovt.github.io
- New depth map of Arctic Ocean – miragenews.com
- 1978 Heart of the Grand Canyon Map – natgeomaps.com
- Texas Heat-Mapping Project is Largest Ever – publicnewsservice.org
The Significance of Borders
- In a town of two nations, Belgian bars are shuttered. Dutch pubs will soon be open across the street – edition.cnn.com
- SA-Victoria-NSW border dogleg leaves locals in state of confusion – abc.net.au
Cartography Out of This World
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey Collaboration Releases New 3D Map of Universe – sci-news.com
- The Most Exceptional Images of Earth from Space – flipboard.com
- Astronomers Have Mapped Out an Enormous Structure in the Universe Called the South Pole Wall – universetoday.com
Cartotherapy
- Get Out The Map: 6 Book for Cartophiles – outlookindia.com
- Summer Road Trip – drive.google.com
- Paris Exhibition Recreates Pompeii’s Final Hours – smithsonianmag.com
- Map jigsaw – jigsawplanet.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News