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.
Featured
- Mapping the Heart of the Grand Canyon – outsideonline.com
- The Invisible City Beneath Paris – newyorker.com
Industry news
- IQGeo launches ‘reality-centric’ geospatial platform to replace cartography-centric legacy GIS – directionsmag.com
- Cartography at the Source – hydro-international.com
Cartography for Social Change
- Using Maps as a Weapon to Resist Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories – resilience.org
- Cartographers for Social Equality – The West Wing – youtube.com
- Maps show how CNN lost America to Fox News – bigthink.com
- Counter-mapping: cartography that lets the powerless speak – theguardian.com
Cartographic Resources & Opportunities
- Book Review – Sun and Moon: A History of Astronomy, Photography, and Cartography – outerplaces.com
- Best virtual cartography apps and software – en.softonic.com
- Astonishing Growth: Electronic Cartography Market by Types, Functions, Applications, and Geography: Trends, Forecasts and Market Estimates 2019-2024 – gizmoposts.com
- Beyond the Horizon: The Mopelia Collection of Fine Atlases and Travel Books – finebooksmagazine.com
Cartographic Products
- Moon landing marked by new Ordnance Survey map – bbc.com
- U of A Geosciences Professor Discovers Rare Original Maps – news.uark.edu
- The inbis channel: The most complete submarine cartography – sciencedaily.com
Opinion
- Power and Responsibility: Maps and Journalism – directionsmag.com
- Geospatial artificial intelligence: the technology standing on the shoulders of giants – blogs.biomedcentral.com
- The “Colonial Cartography” of Google Maps – conversations.e-flux.com
Cartographers & Dabblers
- Prize-winning PhD candidates examine the gig economy and Indigenous cartography in documentary films – concordia.ca
- The boy who draws the world in minutes: Seven-year-old can map the globe after memorising every country and capital – dailymail.co.uk
- Cartographic technician job in Anchorage, Alaska – Department of the Interior – lemonwire.com
- Green and Grand: John Wesley Powell and the West That Wasn’t – eos.org
- How Leonardo da Vinci made a “satellite” map in 1502 – vox.com
Kindred Disciplines
- The Great Trigonometric Survey of India: A History of How India Was Measured – madrascourier.com
- Using high-tech cartography to count fruit trees 6,000 times faster than we can – abc.net.au
- Chandrayaan-2 launch between July 9 to 16 – deccanchronicle.com
- Airborne laboratory maps Hawai’i coral reefs – mvariety.com
- New Products on Display in Marathon – sportfishingmag.com
Cartographic editing
- ‘Mistake Creek’ declared a mistake after 165 years, scrubbed from maps – msn.com
From the Archives
- The future of maps: Cartography in the 21st century – edition.cnn.com
- Start with the Map – newyorker.com
- Incredible Online Archive Lets You Download Hundreds of Ancient Maps for Free – mymodernmet.com
- Hand-drawn maps imitated the printed maps in the first days of Hispano-American cartography – phys.org
- World’s Largest Early World Map Stitched Together for the First Time – mymodernmet.com
Cartography in Art
- Artist Merges Cartography with Ink and Pencil Drawings to Create Beautiful Portraits – mymodernmet.com
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