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
- The Underappreciated Man Behind the “Best Graphic Ever Produced” – news.nationalgeographic.com
- The Man Who Inks The World’s Borders – bbc.com
- Recreating historic maps: interview with Christopher Wesson – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- Birth of Vincenzo Coronelli – globe maker – bestofbergamo.com
Industry
- Maps for People. Online – klokantech.com
- Tour Builder – Put your story on the map – tourbuilder.withgoogle.com
- Old Maps Online – oldmapsonline.org
- 3D Digital Fabrication with ArcGIS – ej.maps.arcgis.com
ICA Facebook Posts
- Cool Cartography – theguardian.com
- Map Satellite Street – mapsatellitestreet.com
- Fragile States Index 2017 – fundforpeace.org
- Gridded Cartograms – tandfonline.com
- The man who inks the world’s borders – bbc.com
- Your maps are not lying to you – medium.com
- How to Digitize a 357-Year-Old Atlas That’s Nearly 6 Feet Tall – atlasobscura.com
- Map of Spain – behance.net
- Atlas for the end of the World – atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com
- The Weird Geography of Population Density – citylab.com
- Thirty fake maps that explain the world – washingtonpost.com
- A gallery of mythical maps – historytoday.com
- Top 19 geovisualization tools, APIs and libraries that will let you create beautiful web maps – joshconsult.com
- Mysterious ancient cartography – cognitiomatrix.com
- Call for conceptualizing graphical design proposal for the new version of the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages in Danger – en.unesco.org
- OS maps 3D aerial layer – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- Persuasive cartography – persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu
Opinion
- The Map Is Not The Territory – santafenewmexican.com
- Strange colour scheme? – openpics.aerobatic.io
- Beautiful maps – mapsdesign.tumblr
- Lichtkaart versus historische cartografie – geografie.nl
- De ‘onvoltooide’ van Jacques de la Feuille – blogs-uva-erfgoed.nl
- Atlas for the End of The World – atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com
- This Map Of The State Of Religious Freedom Around The World Is Chilling – huffingtonpost.com
Just Maps
- Mapping Frances Population from Mobile Phone calls – openpics.aerobatic.io/map/mapping
- The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips – atlasobscura.com
- An incredibly detailed map of the Roman Empire – openpics.aerobatic.io
- Tracing the Waterways Beneath the Sidewalks of New York – nytimes.com
- Behold Nasa’s ‘black marble’: stunning satellite maps reveal Earth’s changing nightscape – wired.co.uk
- Battles in the last 4000 years – openpics.aerobatic.io
- US Precipitation by month does the wave! – AmericanGeo
- Amazing City Maps That Look Like They’re Made of Wood – citylab.com/design
- The regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in Europe – viewsoftheworld.net
- Meeks Atlas map – digital.slv.vic.gov.au
- The Melbourne Map – themelbournemap.com.au
- Map Images – maps.nls.uk
Promoting the MAP
- MAP – youtube.com
- The importance of the map – youtube.com
- 42 amazing maps – youtube.com
Antique Maps
- A Rare 17th Century Australian Map up for Auction – australiangeographic.com.au
- Oldest map of New York may become most expensive map ever sold at $10M – 6sqft.com
- The Greatest and Finest Atlas Ever Published (?) – crouchrarebooks.com
- Valuing Old Maps – oldmaps.com
- How are value and price of antique or rare maps determined? – geographicus.com
- The 1466 Portolan Chart – lib.umn.edu
History
- Postcard Collection – Japan – ej.maps.arcgis.com
- Hadrian’s Wall. Boundary Monument for the Northern Frontier of Roman Britannia! – fig.net
- 1950’s Map of the Dutch Colonies in South America – openpics.aerobatic.io
- In Case You Were Curious, Maps Were Absolutely Gorgeous In The 19th Century – huffingtonpost.com.au
- In the footsteps of the 250-year-old Ratzer Map – ny.curbed.com
Books
- The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Now Free Online – openculture.com
- History of the World in Maps: The Rise and Fall of Empires, Countries and Cities – amazon.com
- Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns: 1658 – ousewashes.org.uk
Cartographic Resources and Events
- Celestial Spheres, Smog Charts, and Radial Cartography in a New Book About Circles – hyperallergic.com
- Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection – openculture.com
- Early Dutch Maritime Cartography – searchworks.stanford.edu
- Languages of Europe – instagram.com
- An atlas with a positive message for a European people united in diversity – blogs.lse.ac.uk
- Old World Language Families – sssscomic.com
- Celestial Globe Gores 1693 – brunelleschi.imss.fi.it
On a Lighter Note
- Some very curious maps of London – bigthink.com/strange-maps
- If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy – nytimes.com
- How much of humanity is in your hemisphere – openpics.aerobatic.io
- The Octopus, a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps – /hyperallergic.com
- Getting bees to construct maps – openpics.aerobatic.io
- Seascapes made entirely from old maps – twitter.com
Quiz
- Can You Guess The Countries? – quizfactory.com
Imagery
- Syria from Space – bbc.co.uk
- Earth 100 million years from now – youtube.com
- Loom – dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au
- Rio: Beyond The Map – google.com
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