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.
Opportunities & Publications
- Pasted Topographies – books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
- A Stranger Quest – player.vimeo.com
- 2024 Road Atlas – 100th Anniversary Collector’s Edition – randpublishing.com
- Compasses, Cartouches and Creatures – exhibits.lib.unc.edu
- All Over the Map – texasmapsociety.org
- Persuasive Cartography – https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/
- The National Library of Wales – library.wales
- Geography and Map Reading Room – loc.gov
- Amsterdam Map Fair – map-fair.com
- Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures – libraries.uta.edu
- Le département des Cartes et plans de la BnF – bnf.fr
- Le BnF – bnf.fr
Conferences & Seminars
- 18th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage – cartography.web.auth.gr
- X Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía – museohistorico.gub.uy
- ‘Maps and Society’ – maphistory.info
- Seminar: The Premodern Scottish Place: Mapping, Chorography, History, Landscape, Literature – maps.nls.uk
- 2024 Symposium: Mapping the Indian Ocean World, from antiquity to the present – anzmaps.org
- Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography – lib.cam.ac.uk
- 30th ICHC 2024 – ichc2024
- RGS-IBG Annual International Conference – rgs.org
- Kartographiehistorische Colloquien – kartengeschichte.ch
- Imago Melitae 2024: 41st IMCoS International Symposium – maltamapsociety.mt
Applications of Mapping
- Astronomers Unveil Largest-Ever Map of Universe’s Active Supermassive Black Holes – nyu.edu
- Night sky, March 2024: What you can see tonight [maps] – space.com
- Blind navigators use Braille maps to guide drivers – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- Iceland | Volcanic eruption in Reykjanes peninsula – reliefweb.int
Maps – Collective
- Collecting Road Maps – roadmaps.org
- Mercator projection exhibiting the discoveries of the U.S. Grinnell expedition – digitalcollections.nypl.org
- Map Chat – leventhalmap.org
- 5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World – thecollector.com
Map Societies
- Rocky Mountain Map Society – rmmaps.org
- California Map Society – californiamapsociety.org
- Chicago Map Society – chicagomapsociety.org
- International Map Collectors’ Society – imcos.org
- The Society for the History of Discoveries – discoveryhistory.org
- Washington Map Society – washmapsociety.org
Opinion
- Mapmaking for making a better world – spatialsource.com.au
- Paris Olympics: Row over ‘woke’ map as Paris gears up for games – bbc.com
Technical
- Connecting QGIS to Postgres and PostGIS – crunchydata.com
- Google Maps for Android Finally Gets Weather Overlay When Browsing Maps: Report – gadgets360.com
- CSIRO scanning and mapping tech to be used on International Space Station – aumanufacturing.com.au
Animal Tracking
- CPW Releases New Map on Collared Gray Wolf Activity – steamboatradio.com
Cartographers
- John Ogilby’s America (1671) – storymaps.arcgis.com
- ‘I wanted to do something useful’: the teenager who drew edible maps for Australia’s wartime pilots – theguardian.com
- UMW Map-Makers Bring Lafayette’s Journey to Life – umw.edu
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Category: eCARTO News, General News