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.
Insights
- The meaning of colors and how they became symbolic – msn.com
- The Different Cartographic Projections and What They Mean – ArchDaily
- The beautiful detail of hand-drawn maps – rmg.co.uk
- Cartography and the Ottoman Imperial Project in the Sixteenth Century – harvard.edu
- Cartographer Overview – US News Best Jobs
- What Is the Indo-Pacific? – The Diplomat
- Geological diagrams for 3D motion – Edward Tufte
- The ‘Atlas’ by Mercator and Hondius – uu.nl
- The return of paper maps – domusweb.it
- The Cartography We Can’t See – Orion Magazine
- How Did Cartographers Create World Maps before Airplanes and Satellites? – Open Culture
- How Placing Intentional Errors Into Maps Can Protect Them – lithub.com
- Al-Sharif al-Idrissi Revolutionized Medieval Cartography and Mapmaking – insidearabia.com
- A brief history of Earth Observation – Atos
- Great Astronomers – Sir Robert S. Ball.
Mapping the Environment
- Reforming coral reefs using 3D printing – ScienceDaily
- Suitability of the global forest cover change map to assess climatic megadisturbance impacts on remote tropical forests – nature.com
- NOAA joins worldwide ocean floor mapping effort – msn.com
Opportunities
- ISHMAP 2023 Berlin – Symposium and Workshop – wordpress.com
- Next Generation Cartographers: A cartographic colloquium – DGfK
- ICC2023 – icc2023.org
- GeoCart’2022 – cartography.org.nz
- BCS Annual Conference 2022 – cartography.org.uk
Publications
- Introducción a los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) aplicados al catastro – nosolosig.com
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization, Fourth Edition – routledge.com
- Martin Waldseemüller’s ‘Carta marina’ of 1516 – Chet Van Duzer
Cartography Related Publications
- The Cartographers – Peng Shepherd
- Crucial Maps in the Early Cartography and Place-Nomenclature of the Atlantic Coast of Canada – JSTOR
- The Cartographic Capital – cambridge.org
- A History of Cartography in India – outlookindia.com
- Radical Cartographies – Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America – utexas.edu
- Horizons – A Global History of Science – news9live.com
- ‘Bos’ Schoolatlas der geheele aarde’ – uu.nl
This is Tomorrow Calling
- The Internet Needs You-Are-Here Maps – WIRED
- Map of BC’s “Petrofuture” shows sea-level rise in 1,000 years – dailyhive.com
- Omagh’s history brought to life by digital walking trail – BBC News
- 3D Map Platform for Bringing the Real World into the Metaverse – UASweekly
- The New Precision – At Scale – forbes.com
- ‘Underground maps’ segment cities using fashion, AI – Cornell Chronicle
- The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia – MIT Technology Review
- “Artificial Intelligence Is Definitely Not Just a Hype” – gim-international.com
- How the Geospatial Industry is Embracing AI – gim-international.com
- Building a Digital Twin for Germany – gim-international.com
- Army’s Synthetic Training Environment harnesses evolving mapping technology – The U S Army
- Sensor breakthrough paves way for groundbreaking map of world under Earth surface – ScienceDaily
- The UK’s wee military recon drones will double as cartographers – popsci.com
Out of This World
- Clearest image of Jupiter ever taken – tribunewired.com
- New Maps of Milky Way Are Biggest and Best Yet – Scientific American
Restoring the Past
- 50-year-old map ‘Picture of the world’ restored – muscatdaily.com
- De papieren atlassen zijn niet aan te slepen. Wat maakt ze zo onweerstaanbaar? – volkskrant.nl
The Art of Cartography
- One man and his compass: Meet the cartographer-turned-artist bringing snow to life – Euronews
- Cartographer Olaus Magnus’ Map of Sea Monsters – finebooksmagazine.com
- Former Map Maker Walks for Hours in Snow To Create Giant Geometric Patterns in Snowfields – mymodernmet.com
Interactive
- UNAOC and UNOSAT Launch Interactive Map of Religious Sites in Sweden Mirage News – UNAOC
A Light-Hearted Look
- Satirical cartography: a century of American humor in twisted maps – Big Think
- Top 17 Best Scratch off Maps June 2022 – Bestgamingpro
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