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
- Illustrator Creates Colorful Hand-Drawn Maps Filled With Playful Details – mymodernmet.com
- Celebrating Abraham Ortelius – google.com
- Newtown boy shows impressive cartography skills – ulsterherald.com
- Cartography lecturer working to prevent poaching in Senegal among those cut – montanakaimin.com
- The cartographers – dukechronicle.com
- Creative Conversations: the Christchurch cartographer redefining the country – stuff.co.nz
- Who Maps the World? – citylab.com
- Drawing Borders in the Arctic: The Race To Colonise the North – themarketmogul.com
- Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape – salon.com
- How a Modern-Day Mapmaker Does His Job – theatlantic.com
- Chicago, the Last Great Capital of Cartography – citylab.com
- How a Mapmaker Who Rejects Cartography Can Help You Find Yourself – inverse.com
Cartography’s Support Structure
- EuroGeographics Signs Production Agreement with Germany’s Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy – gim-international.com
- A Thorough Documentation Of China Electronic Cartography System Market Through 2018 To 2025 – sportsalexa.com
- Indonesia Electronic Cartography System Market Analysis 2018-2025: Questale Report – bitzradar.com
- Belarus, Russia team up for scientific projects in geodesy, cartography – eng.belta.by
Cartographic Resources
- Namesake of USM’s Osher Map Library gives university its largest gift ever: rare maps worth $100 million or more – pressherald.com
- A Research Guide to Cartographic Resource – rowman.com
- 28th International Cartographic Conference Vol. 1 – proc-int-cartogr-assoc.net
- UW-Madison expands GIS professional programs to meet workforce needs – news.wisc.edu
- This collection of maps is the largest in the country…and it’s in Milwaukee – radiomilwaukee.org
- Cartographic Events Spanning the Globe – gim-international.com
Cartography Fixes
- ‘Nobody puts Shetland in a box – bbc.com
- ‘Alternative Maps’ challenges everything you thought you knew about cartography – mashable.com
- Radio 4 asked where the North began and people got quite worked up – inews.co.uk
- Don’t Be Duped, This Is The True Size Of Africa – face2faceafrica.com
- Almost half of Portugal’s students can’t find country on map – theportugalnews.com
Mapping the World
- Facebook is recruiting mapping experts to help map the world – cnbc.com
- Mapping the Price of Beer Around the World – visualcapitalist.com
- Mapping the Acoustic Environment Two Hearing Aids at a Time – iotevolutionworld.com
- Origins of ordinary things: Maps – newtimes.co
- Maps reveal hidden truths of the world’s cities – bbc.com
- FATMAP Puts The Whole World In High Definition With Beautiful 3D Maps – forbes.com
Cartography
- MapLab: The Cartography of Chaos – citylab.com
- Explore Historic Mount Everest Expeditions Through National Geographic Maps – news.nationalgeographic.com
- The Greatest Voyage in Maritime History – spiceislandsblog.com
Maps
- The Urban Good – London National Park City map – urbangood.org
- Thomas Guide Maps: The Rise And Fall of LA’s Directional Holy Grail – laist.com
- Oldest map of Ireland puts us on the edge of the world – irishtimes.com
- World’s first atlas sheds light on cartography – hurriyetdailynews.com
- Michael Raisch Talks The Illustrated Football Atlas – thesefootballtimes.co
- A beautiful collection of rare maps shows how the world viewed India over the centuries – qz.com
- In a Novel, Mystical Maps and Intertwined Journeys Through Syria – nytimes.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News