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
- Ferjan Ormeling onderscheiden met Mercator-Medaille – geoinformatienederland.nl
Mapping the Environment
- Alcis releases public web map of Afghanistan earthquake – pajhwok.com
- Antarctica: Southern Ocean floor mapped in greatest ever detail – bbc.com
- Scientists and students onboard to map East coast tsunami risk – newcastle.edu.au
- Scientists Map Yellowstone’s Underground ‘Plumbing’ – smithsonianmag.com
- Google Maps now shows the air quality around you – gsmarena.com
- ‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration – news.mongabay.com
Exposes & reviews
- Western Cartography: A History – thepostil.com
- A Curious Implementation of Copper-Plate Printing – mappingasprocess.net
- The Southernmost End of South America through Cartography – h-net.org
- La Carte de France Histoire & techniques – editionsparentheses.com
Cartography Books
- Martin Waldseemüller’s ‘Carta marina’ of 1516 – library.oapen.org
- Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome – universitypressscholarship.com
- Cartophilia – Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland – press.uchicago.edu
- Mapping the World: The Story of Cartography – goodreads.com
- The Mapping of Africa – amazon.com
- Topographic Mapping Topographic mapping: covering the wider field of geospatial information science & technology (GIS & T) – academia.edu
- Japoniæ insulæ – The Mapping of Japan – amazon.com
- London Underground Maps – researchgate.net
- History of the World in Maps – goodreads.com
- Underground Cities – ltmuseumshop.co.uk
- History of the World Map by Map – vdoc.pub
The Comos
- NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps – jpl.nasa.gov
- Gravitational wave ‘radar’ could help map the invisible universe – sciencenews.org
- Gaia continues quest for the ultimate sky map – bbc.com
- Comet-mapping mission gets the go-ahead – imperial.ac.uk
- New maps of asteroid Psyche reveal an ancient world of metal and rock – /news.mit.edu
- Scientists map sulfur residue on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa – phys.org
- Astronomers map violent star formation in nebula outside our galaxy – miragenews.com
- China releases world’s ‘most detailed’ map of Moon – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Mapping Applications
- Satellite mapping helps farmers drill down on pasture
- Map: See top 50 best French towns and cities to live in in 2022 – connexionfrance.com
- Digital mapping reveals network of settlements thrived in pre-Columbian Amazon – theguardian.com
- Dubai project to design digital maps for driverless vehicles – khaleejtimes.com
Cartographers
- ACT meets Middle Earth in massive hand-drawn map – the-riotact.com
- Cartography at BGS: 200 years of mapping Great Britain – youtube.com
- The world of H.C. Berann – berann.com
Industry
- Is the Leica Pegasus TRK a game-changer for mobile mapping? – geoweeknews.com
- Grab to Be Fully Powered by Its Own Mapping Technology by Q3 2022 – businesswire.com
- MapmyIndia collaborates with ISRO to boost 3D mapping – telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com
- 2 New iOS 16 Apple Maps Features Will Improve the Way You Travel – cnet.com
- Nextech AR To Spin Out Real-World Augmented Reality Spatial Mapping Platform ARitize Maps businesswire.com
Fringe
- She hacked an old knitting machine to weave the universe into a work of art – theage.com.au
- Canada and Denmark sign deal to divide uninhabited Arctic island – cbc.ca
- Google Maps has become a game with Geoguesser — and Trevor Rainbolt has mastered it – npr.org
- Google Maps has launched a cool and fascinating new ‘time travel’ feature – timeout.com
- Getting lost with Google Maps – khaleejtimes.com
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