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.
Investigative Cartography
- The Dutch City With A Constantly Changing Name – bbc.com
- The Surprisingly Simple Apps Pilots Use To Make Your Flight Better – wired.com
- This Prohibition-era map is a love letter to alcohol – bigthink.com
- This cartographer’s deep dive into Google Maps is fascinating – theverge.com
- Apparently, All Roads Do Lead to Rome – archdaily.com
- The History Of Mapping Australia – indonesiaexpat.biz
- World’s largest collection of ocean garbage is twice the size of Texas – usatoday.com
Cartography’s Deep Dark Secrets
- Conspiracy to keep New Zealand off world maps – nzherald.co.nz
- MapLab: The Cartography of Chaos – citylab.com
- Communism, Cartography and the Creation of Thai Identity – international.thenewslens.com
- The Road to Prohibition Was Due North of the Gulf of Wretchedness, According to These Maps – vinepair.com
- Mapping Out Missing and Murdered Native Women: ‘I Would Want My Story to Have Meaning’ – rewire.news
- Why Nigeria’s Next Population Census May Be Hampered- Investigation – newsghana.com.gh
- ‘We Do Not Have The Right To Condone Or Ignore The Distortion Of Historical And Geographical Truth’ memri.org
- Why Ancient Mapmakers Were Terrified of Blank Spaces – news.nationalgeographic.com
Cartographic Snippets
- Sign Language – thereader.com
- ‘Alternative Maps’ challenges everything you thought you knew about cartography – mashable.com
- A study of our domestic space – timesofmalta.com
- Vladimir Putin is Redrawing The Map of The World to Reflect How Russia Sees It
- Gap apologizes after Chinese netizens slam it for T-shirt with incomplete China map – globaltimes.cn
- A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Moser Spindle – blogs.scientificamerican.com
- Relief Model of Switzerland – srf.ch
- What’s the Longest Straight Path You Could Sail without Touching Land? – newsweek.com
- What is the longest distance a person can travel (on Earth, on land) in a straight line without having to cross a sea or ocean? – quora.com
Cartography Bringing People Together
- Almost Everyone on Earth Lives in the Same Hemisphere – cntraveler.com
- Belarus, Russia team up for scientific projects in geodesy, cartography – eng.belta.by/society
- Central Asia: Digital Cartography – kazakh-tv.kz
- Counter-mapping: cartography that lets the powerless speak – theguardian.com
- Scottish map company to shape China’s view of the world – thenational.scot
Mapping Archives
- Les Globes De Mercator A :’Universite De Lausanne – wp.unil.ch/mercator
- Discover Fascinating Vintage Maps From National Geographic’s Archives – news.nationalgeographic.com
- The discovery of a map made by a Native American is reshaping thinking about the Lewis & Clark expedition – historynewsnetwork.org
- World’s first atlas sheds light on cartography – hurriyetdailynews.com
- The Rulers of Europe Every Year – youtube.com
- Explore 100 Years of National Geographic Pull-Out Maps – news.nationalgeographic.com
- Discover Fascinating Vintage Maps From National Geographic’s Archives – news.nationalgeographic.com
Cartography in its infancy
- Newtown boy shows impressive cartography skills – ulsterherald.com
- Shoestring cartography: Family creates ‘best map ever’ of Denali’s summit – newsminer.com
- Google made some poor soul run a crab gauntlet for Street View – cnet.com
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