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 David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.
Mapworthy
- This 17th Century Map of the Skies is Bursting With Mythological Creatures – atlasobscura.com
People in Cartography
- Mannerfelt Medalist Eduard Imhof – vimeo.com
- Franz Ludwig Pfyffer – terrainmodels.com
- ‘3D mapping’ method wins Giuseppe Inghilleri award – optics.org
- The work of Edward Tufte – edwardtufte.com
- Stephen Walter, the artist mapping London’s shifts, stories and secrets – in pictures – theguardian.com
Lesson Time
- Visual Design and Composition Lessons from 30 Beautiful Maps – canva.com
- Calculate the Distance to the Horizon – wikihow.com
- We Finally Know Why the North Pole is Moving East – gizmodo.com
- Hachures and sketchy relief maps – andywoodruff.com
- Geo Psycho Test: Are you GPS dependent? – geoawesomeness.com
- Video: Collect, Inspect and Visualize Data with Minimal Effort – giscloud.com
- Can You Guess The City From Its Map Outline? – buzzfeed.com
- Five steps of making a map with small drones – cta.int
- Heterogenous Spatial Data: Fusion, Modeling, and Analysis for GIS Applications – morganclaypool.com
- Maptime Boston’s Cartographic Design Tips – github.com
- What’s an algorithm? – linkedin.com
Transport and Travel Maps
- Shipping – shipmap.org
- Mapping The Stunning Complexity Of The World’s Shipping Routes – fastcodesign.com
- Mapping How Stressful Streets Can Limit Cycling – citylab.com
- Thirty two nautical charts updated – geogarage.com
- Delivering to the Individual Anywhere, Anytime – prweb.com
Maps
- Six maps that will make you rethink the world – washingtonpost.com
- Planet Erde – bgbl.de
- Cool cartography – theguardian.com
- Katalal map – deviantart.com
Indoor Mapping
- Google to showcase Project Tango indoor mapping and VR/AR platform at Google I/O – searchengineland.com
- Where’s the sugar? Supermarket robot creates product maps as it takes stock – gizmag.com
Mapping Technology & Software
- Researchers Map Newest Island in Tonga Using High-Resolution 3D Mapping Technology – natureworldnews.com
- Mapping The Rise Of Mobile Technology For Social Good – good.is
- Robot’s in-hand eye maps surroundings, determines hand’s location – sciencedaily.com
- TopoDrone-100 – The only true UAV mapping system – spatialsource.com.au
- Autodesk and the Future of the Built Environment – geospatialstream.com
- Importing Google Earth .Kml (.Kmz) file to ArcMap – monde-geospatial.com
- Relay is a beautiful app for creating and sharing custom maps – techcrunch.com
Opinion & Blogs
- Is reliance on GPS making us lose our mapping minds? – gpsworld.com
- Could mapping tech revolutionise disaster response? – theguardian.com
- If You Love Maps, This Blog Is for You – nationalgeographic.com
- Maps mania – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
- What happened to Google Maps? – ustinobeirne.com
- Designing Maps – designingmaps.blogspot.com
Cartographic Resources & Education & Opportunities
- Geospatial metadata – geospatialmetadata.com
- GPS Tracking Simulation with ArcGIS Desktop – monde-geospatial.com
- Randomly Selecting Features in ArcGIS – monde-geospatial.com
- Helvetica Alternatives – fontshop.com
Cartographers and Map Users Beware
- Cartographers beware: India warns of $15 million fine for maps it doesn’t like – washingtonpost.com
- Map Collection Security Guidelines – ala.org
- Google Challenges South Korea Over Mapping Restrictions – wsj.com
- Protecting your privacy if you use a route mapping app – theconversation.com
- Mapping error – thehindubusinessline.com
Crisis Management and Mapping
- ICAInternational Conference on Cartographic Visualization of Big Data for Early Warning and Disaster/Crisis Management – ew-cm2016.org
- Creating a Map to Navigate the Post-Earthquake Landscape in Ecuador – newyorker.com
- Mapping The Disturbingly High Rates Of Food Insecurity In America – fastcoexist.com
- Mapping Worldwide Zika Susceptibility – the-scientist.com
- This map shows the places that would go dark if we banned fossil fuels tomorrow – businessinsider.com.au
- Dixie Alley: The Not-So-New Hotbed for Tornadic Destruction – atlaslens.com
Publications
- Atlas of Design – nacis.org
- Atlas der Schweiz – atlasderschweiz.ch
- Atlas of Climate Change: Responsibility and Obligation of Human Society – springer.com
- Mind The Map – gestalten.com
- The Mapmakers – foliosociety.com
- A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers – amazon.com
- Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas of World Ports and Shipping Places 2016 – amazon.com
Imagery
- NASA releases 3 million photos of Earth – abc.net.au
- ESA’s Swarm Mission Is Mapping How the Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Changing – vice.com
- The World From On High – historytoday.com
- By mapping the skies, AirMap app paves the way to a drone-filled future – arstechnica.com
- Mapping the depths – postguam.com
- Optech Eclipse autonomous airborne mapping system – spatialsource.com.au
- Using laser scanners to study the day-night rhythm of trees – tuwien.ac.at
- Sentinel satellite pictures a ‘clear skies’ Africa – bbc.com
- Get the world’s highest-quality satellite imagery delivered straight to your web or mobile application—for free – digitalglobe.com
History
- 2016 Exhibition – William Smith: The Family Man – churchillheritage.org.uk
- Globes – bnf.fr
- This Old Map: Da Vinci’s City Plan, 1502 – citylab.com
- These 15th-Century Maps Show How the Apocalypse Will Go Down – nationalgeographic.com
- Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment – bbc.com
Pushing the “Cartographic” Boundaries
- Quilted maps of real places – quiltsbyvalerie.com
- This MIT professor is using bee poop to map an invisible world – techinsider.io
- Mapping Boston’s soundscape – harvard.edu
- NRL completes ICEX2016 expedition, mapping of Arctic ice – eurekalert.org
- Drone fishing for tuna – youtube.com
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