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.
Industry news
- Apple Maps hands-on: Look Around and folders bring depth to iOS and iPadOS 13 – venturebeat.com
- MapCreator; Creating Maps on the Fly – innovationorigins.com
- C-MAP Launches Updated Integrated Maritime Suite for Enhanced Voyage Optimization – hellenicshippingnews.com
Cartographic Education
- Marking the map for a successful career – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- Sacramento middle schoolers’ interactive Tubbs Fire map wins national competition – abc10.com
- Start with the Map – newyorker.com
- Atlas of the Copenhagens: Book review – archinect.com
Cartographic Advances
- Using high-tech cartography to count fruit trees 6,000 times faster than we can – abc.net.au
Cartographic Products
- The Ngai Thu Atlas – kahurumanu.co.nz
- Mapping Out art show takes inspiration from cartography, exploring – newtimesslo.com
- Greenland map captures changing Arctic in fine detail – bbc.com
- 41 years later, a new map of wild Atlantic salmon rivers unveiled – cbc.ca
- Tabletop Globe Bar Wine Stand Wood – vidaxl.com.au
- MapLab: Underwater Worlds – citylab.com
Opinion
- Flat Earthers, and the Rise of Science Denial in America – msn.com
- X doesn’t mark the spot: Unearthing the bias in modern-day navigation systems – jaxenter.com/bias-navigation-systems-159389
- Global Electronic Cartography Market Expert Analysis To Help You Plan For Upcoming Years (2019-2024) – thetacticalmarketing.com
- Drawing Lines On The Internet: Border Conflicts And The Politics Behind Digital Maps’ Sound Acceptable? – Analysis – eurasiareview.com
- Why we trust our maps even when we shouldn’t – fastcompany.com
- Tender Maps: The Feminist Function of Emotional Cartography – conversations.e-flux.com
- Meta-geography and the Navigation of Space – e-flux.com
Cartographic Insights
- Leading historian lectures on Dr. Rizal, cartography – businessmirror.com.ph
- Drawing lines on the internet: Border conflicts and the politics behind digital maps – orfonline.org
Cartographers
- Macdonald Gill – nla.gov.au
- 10 Questions With…Richard Saul Wurman – interiordesign.net
Cartographic Curatorship
- Out of Disorder came Order! – specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
- Mapping of the Moon Exhibition Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 – artsandcollections.com
- View from on high: UW-Madison houses Wisconsin aerial photos – news.wisc.edu
Cartographic Conundrums
- Russia finds U.S. decision on spelling of Kyiv to be not obligatory – 112.international
Cartographic Investments
- Colonial Map Reaches $125.000 at Swann – finebooksmagazine.com
- Rare Globe of Mars Portraying Early Theory of Life on the Red Planet Goes Up for Auction – geek.com
- Rare, historical maps will be sold in Crescent City’s two-part, online-only auction, June 14 and 21 – artfixdaily.com
Inspiration from History
- Science history: Huygens, the horological hero – cosmosmagazine.com
- Elizabethan map goes on display at Bodleian Libraries – bbc.com
- Early cartographers helped put Sydney on the map – smh.com.au
- Incredible Online Archive Lets You Download Hundreds of Ancient Maps for Free – mymodernmet.com
- Hand-drawn maps imitated the printed maps in the first days of Hispano-American cartography – phys.org
Cartographic Applications
- WaterLore: what might drylands teach us about living with less water? – foreground.com.au
- The inbis channel: The most complete submarine cartography – sciencedaily.com
Cartographic Art
- Music/art project utilizing Australian satellite imagery – geospatialworld.net
Category: eCARTO News, General News