eCARTO News capture the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to the editor of eCARTO News.
General News
- MapStory, a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally – mapstory.org
- The Power of Mapping – theatlantic.com
- Google Maps Gallery Wants To Be The Internet’s Digital Atlas – readwrite.com
- How open source cartography pays the bills for one company – opensource.com
- The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire – thenextweb.com
Applications
- Mapping London’s housing – theguardian.com
- Mapping The World One Small Hydropower plant at a time – hydroworld.com
- ParkMe Improves Web Mapping Features – socaltech.com
Industry News
- Mall or nothing: Nokia and Yahoo extend partnership to indoor mapping – zdnet.com
- Behind Google Maps’ Intuitive New Design – fastcodesign.com
- Nokia Here Maps is heading to Windows 8.1 to fill in Bing’s mapping gaps – pcworld.com
- Paracosm shows off impressive crowdsource 3D mapping software used in Google’s Project Tango – thenextweb.com
- Google Sea View mapping our oceans – 3news.co.nz
- Introducing .MAP by GroundSure: a new mapping service for architects – architectsjournal.co.uk
- Jack Ma’s Alibaba Offers To Buy Digital-Mapping Company AutoNavi – forbes.com
- TomTom integrates indoor mapping with Micello partnership – businesswire.com
Technological advances
- iOS 8 Said To Take Maps To The Next Level With Added Data And Transit Directions – techcrunch.com
- ‘The map comes alive’: Nokia Here boss dreams of drones, self-driving cars – reviews.cnet.com
- Alaska’s scale puts USGS mapping systems to the test – gcn.com
- Mapping the 3D printing revolution [Infographic] – electronicsnews.com.au
- Google data could stem surge in deforestation levels – rtcc.org
Education and Resources
- Elements of Cartographic Style – gsd.harvard.edu
- Sea Monsters – press.uchicago.edu
- Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps – booktopia.com.au
- The Spacious Word – press.uchicago.edu
- Cartographies of Travel and Navigation – press.uchicago.edu
- Art and Cartography – press.uchicago.edu
- Maps and Politics – press.uchicago.edu
- Africa: Mapping PhD Enrolment in Africa – allafrica.com
Historical Cartography
- The Cartographer of No Man’s Land: A Novel – oprah.com
- The History of Cartography – geography.wisc.edu
- Mapping river geometry gives clues to past terrains – nature.com
- Online mapping tool gives insight into history of London’s streets – standard.co.uk
- ZEB1 Handheld Laser Scanner Speeds Up Mapping of Historic Hungarian Hospital – directionsmag.com
Society and Cartography
- Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters – pewinternet.org
- Social Mapping: Will Findery Make its Mark? business2community.com
- Explaining the odds: the process of mapping gambling in England – theguardian.com
- Army to introduce biometric mapping for recruitments – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- The Future of Mapping Is Inside Your Home and Office – theatlanticcities.com
- Bing to Put Brazil’s Favelas on the Map – triplepundit.com
- Laser-mapping crime scenes officially a thing – wired.co.uk
Cartographers
- Cartographer Ursula Ryan – classroom.antarctica.gov.au
Opinion
- ‘It’s the people, not the cartographer drawing the maps today’ – geospatialworld.net
- A Cartographer’s Toolkit – gretchenpeterson.com
- Is Cartography Dead? – blog.visual.ly
- In Sochi, Open Source Maps Beat Google’s – theatlantic.com
- Mapping Africa – dissidentvoice.org
- Mapping our future – jpost.com
- Driving While Mapping: California Case Sets Smartphone Precedent – informationweek.com
Cartographic Organisations and Activities
- AutoCarto 2014 – cartogis.org
- Cartographers’ Guild – cartographersguild.com
- Jose Ignacio Leon’s blog – mappingpoint.blogspot.com.es
Cartography Products
- EUROPEANA Project – europeana1914-1918.eu
- Mapping the tubes: The hidden world of undersea cables that make up the internet – independent.co.uk
- Here’s An Actual 3D Indoor Map Of A Room Captured With Google’s Project Tango Phone – techcrunch.com
Cartography Lite
- Crimea river: US network’s epic geography fail – news.optuszoo.com.au
- The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion – carcanet.co.uk
- The McArdle Mapping Mystery – wowt.com
- The art of Google Maps – economist.com
- Projection mapping digital signage goes for a swim – digitalsignagetoday.com
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