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.
Just Maps & Atlases
- Mapa del Humbre de 2019 – wfp.org
- An atlas fit for a Tudor queen – bl.uk
- Lose Yourself in a Mesmerizing, Meticulous Map of the Met – alasoscura.com
- 5,000 rare and unique maps are now available online – phys.org
Cartographers & Navigators
- Magallanes – el hombre y su gesta – nosolosig.com
- Leonardo da Vinci transformed mapping from art to science – nationalgeographic.com
- Lockdown no bar, over 1,000 students honing skills in cartography – newindianexpress.com
Citizen Cartography
- How to Make an Illustrated Map in 8 Steps – nytimes.com
- Travis Elborough: Maps for the mind during lockdown – hackneycitizen.co.uk
- Curious City: In, Out, Above, Beyond Saint Paul – issuu.com
- The M.T.A. vs. a D.I.Y. Cartographer – newyorker.com
- Art Challenge: Readers Show Us How They Map Their Worlds – atlasobscura.com
- Putting women on the map: Feminist cartographers are filling in urban design data gaps – scroll.in
- During Lockdown, Google Maps Gives My Son a Way Out – wired.com
- Young Kazakh entrepreneurs talk about their innovative projects – kazakh-tv.kz
- What your Strava maps says about you – runningmagazine.ca
Maps Relating to Regions
- Netherlands Maps – familysearch.org
- Roy Military Survey maps – nls.uk
- AI Maps Forest Dryness to Better Predict Wildfires – futurity.org
Cartographic Industry News
- Novum Intel – a new voice for Africa’s geospatial and location intelligence industry – novumintel.com
- Google highlights accessible locations with new Maps feature – techcrunch.com
- Navenio raises $11 million to bring indoor mapping and localization to hospitals – venturebeat.com
- Aerial Mapping Firm Nearmap Expands Offerings for AEC – enr.com
- HERE Technologies Moves Its XYZ Mapping Platform to General Availability – programmableweb.com
- Introducing Crew, An Exciting New Propeller Platform Add-on That Brings Interactive Maps Into The Field – suasnews.com
Themed Cartography
- Weather Talk: The lost art of hand-drawn weather maps – grandforksherald.com
- Population density in Europe – statsmapsnpix.com
- The Colorado Ski Map – manuscriptmaps.com
- Obsessed with jacarandas? These maps show every single purple tree in L.A. – timeout.com
- The U.S. Is Getting Shorter, as Mapmakers Race to Keep Up – nytimes.com
Cartographic of Distant Locations
- Antarctica: A brief history in maps, part 1 – bl.uk
- Project aims to create first 4-D maps of Earth’s mantle – phys.org
Cartography Sources & Resources
- Nosolosig – Compartiendo información sobre geotechnologies – nosolosig.com
- Maps, globes, and plans: an ongoing census of free digital archives, #5 – air4edu.com
- Cities Data Tool – centreforcities.org
- Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection – leventhalmap.org
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection – lib.utexas.edu
- Harvard Map Collection – library.harvard.edu
- Geography and Map Reading Room – loc.gov
- Mapping the Pandemic – Open Call – livingmaps.org
- Maps in the Drawing Room – nationalarchives.gov.uk
- Maps Their Untold Stories – nationalarchives.gov.uk
- Lines on the map: records of international boundaries – nationalarchives.gov.uk
Pictorial Cartography
- London – The Great Fire – artstation.com
Cartography and the Internet
- Go Ahead, Get Lost in Map Land – themanual.com
- Sharing Large Raster Maps And Drone Imagery With GIS Cloud – giscloud.com
Cartographic Representation of Motion
- Bodies in Motion – nationalgeographic.com
- Westside Neighbors Now Mapping Locations, Hoping to Create Peacock Love Story – nbclosangeles.com
- These new maps show 16 years of ice sheet loss – earthsky.org
Cartographic Technologies and Apps
- Mapping dry wildfire fuels with AI and new satellite data – phys.org
- Five of the best online mapping apps – theguardian.com
- VIDEO: C-MAP Reveal – fishingworld.com.au
- Mapping Drones: The Remo-M is the Award Winning, Sophisticated Solution You’ve Never Heard Of (Yet) – dronelife.com
Toponomy
- Inuit Place-Names Map Series of Nunavik – nunatop.com
Cartographic “What ifs”
- What If Kamchatka Was an Independent Country? – brilliantmaps.com
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