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Welcome to the website of the International Cartographic AssociationGet to know the new ICA Executive Committee for the term 2023-2027
Welcome to the website of the International Cartographic Association
Get to know the new ICA Executive Committee for the term 2023-2027

eCARTO News May 2019

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

Industry news

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

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

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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