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
- Highlighting Five Fantastic Women in the Geospatial Industry – maps.com
- Holly Price – cartography.org.uk
Cartographic Standards, Guidelines and Rules
- OGC membership approves new Community Standard: Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) – ogc.org
Mapping the Environment
- How community mapping of storm water drains is fighting evictions in Karachi’s informal settlements – preventionweb.net
- Seafarer App Mapping Ocean Pollution Used to Clear Isle of Man Beaches – maritime-executive.com
- EDODnet Unveils New Pan-European Shoreline-migration Map – hydro-international.com
Online Cartography
- OS OpenMap – Local Buildings & Function Sites in the Living Atlas – resource.esriuk.com
- Looking forward to the new Map Viewer – resource.esriuk.com
- Web application cartography: mapping out Burp Suite’s crawler – portswigger.net
- Mapping internet shutdowns around the world – aljazeera.com
Cartographic Discussion & Discoveries
- Can This New Map Fix Our Distorted Views of the World? – nytimes.com
- What scientists found while mapping underwater continent off Australia – brisbanetimes.com.au
The Psychology of Maps
- How Maps Affect Perception – gislounge.com
- Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor – hyperallergic.com
Just Maps
- Map of Windmills In The Netherlands: Historic vs Modern – britishbusinessenergy.co.uk
- World Map Used in North Korea – brilliantmaps.com
- Europe At Night – brilliantmaps.com
- The Incredible Map of Venice That Changed Cartography Forever – telegraph.co.uk
- New ‘Map of Life’ Reveals Where Unknown Animals May Still Live on Earth – sciencealert.com
- A pocket guide to Mars – spaceref.com
Cartographic Industry News
- South Korean Mapping Satellite Reaches Orbit – hackaday.com
Cartography Sources, Resources and Opportunities
- “ISSonVis 2021- Geovisualization in Maps – geoinformatics.upol.cz
- Research Associate in Digital History on the Machines Reading Maps project – cartography.org.uk
- Cartographic Animation – geography.name
- Digitale Geodaten von swisstopo sind neu kostenlos und können frei genutzt warden – swisstopo.admin.ch
- The Long Enlightenment – woodslane.com.au
- ANZMapS newsletter – anzmaps.org
- Call for Papers – Coordinating Cartographic Collections history.icaci.org
- Japanese Maps Collection launches on Manchester Digital Collections – rylandscollections.com
- Online Rumsey Maps Reach 105,000. Part Two – 2017 Additions – davidrumsey.com
- Public Research Fellows in History and Geography – leventhalmap.org
Cartography Reads, Reviews and Rewinds
- When Maps Become the World. h-net.org
- The Border Mistake That Created a Disputed Territory – youtube.com
- Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries – visualcapitalist.com
- 3D Mapping The Largest Population Density Centers – visualcapitalist.com
- Linking maps to crime scenes and revealing unseen connections – resource.esriuk.com
- Cartography Animated – harvardmagazine.com
- Looking back 500 years – opinion.inquirer.net
Cartography Related (perhaps!)
- On the Survival of Polynesian Voyaging – maps.com
- Disboard – disboard.org
- 50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World – visualcapitalist.com
- Most Used Emoji’s Around the World – reddit.com
- GIS job listings – gislounge.com
- Sound waves from fin whale songs could help us study Earth’s crust – newscientist.com
- Vintage Lego Topographical Map – ideas.lego.com
- Best Handheld GPS Receivers – gisgeography.com
- Leonardo da Vinci Cartographer and Inventor of the Google Map is finalist in book cover design competition. – prurgent.com
- ITV Invests $2.7M In UK Mapping Tech Startup What3words – deadline.com
- Mapping the Arizona Snowbowl for functional and artistic use – azdailysun.com
- Surveyors Wanted to Shut this Drone Photographer Down. Now, He’s Fighting Back. – dronelife.com
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