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.
Cartography reporting
- World Development Report 2021 Maps and Figures – worldbank.org
- Mapping risk across the globe – controlrisks.com
History
- Notable Cartographers and Their Maps – gislounge.com
- Viabundus – landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de
- Historiske kart – kartverket.not
Opinion
- The Unsolved Mystery of Sri Lanka’s “Stargate” – bbc.com
- 3 Advantages of Paper Maps Over Digital Maps – gisgeography.com
- You Can’t Have a One to One Mapping of American History – ctexaminer.com
- Maps can bridge gaps between citizens, scientists and policymakers – theconversation.com
- Google Maps is About to Get a Lot More Useful – thurrott.com
Cartographic collections
- A Guide to the Library of Congress’s Collection of Fire Insurance Maps – maproomblog.com
Cartographic Applications
- Tracking Civic Space – monitor.civicus.org
- Canadian Passenger Rail in 1955 and 1980 – maproomblog.com
- Going global: Western migration mapping project adopted by international science group to aid conservation – postregister.com
Atlases and Globes
- Atlas of Demography’ – migration-demography-tools.jrc.ec.europa.eu
- International team partners with UN to launch global initiative to map ungulate migrations – eurekalert.org
- Globemakers – instagram.com
- UO geographers map out new conservation opportunities – miragenews.com
- A digital atlas for all the worlds maps and imagery – soar.earth
- Allen Coral Atlas – allencoralatlas.org
Sharing Our Cartography
- Mai Ghaly Cartography Portfolio – mai-ghaly-cartography-portfolio
- Mapping Our World – loc.gov
- A Gray Accessible Basemap – esri.com
- Magnets, Math, and Diagrams: Turning Visual Aids into Navigational Technology – video.ibm.com
Cartographic Industry News & Research & Information
- Boletín semanal de Nosolosig – mailchi.mp
- Hiring: Part Time Junior Graphic Designer | Cartographer – bellerbyandco.com
- Area burned adjustments to historical wildland fires in Canada – iopscience.iop.org
- Accessing data from large online rasters with Cloud-Optimized-Geotiff, GDAL, and terra R package – frodriguezsanchez.net
- Cool GeoViewer Features – geospatialonline.com
- How GPS Receivers Work – Trilateration vs Triangulation – gisgeography.com
- Where is the Central Meridian? – gisgeography.com
- Mapping micronutrients in grain and soil unearths hidden hunger in Africa – nature.com
- Terradepth Autonomous Sub Dives Into Mapping World’s Oceans, Making Data Freely Available – forbes.com
- Birds dealing with change — Mapping migration routes can lead to conservation areas – eurekalert.org
- 54th annual conference of CARTO – acmla-acacc.ca
- Mapping the World, the Belgian contribution – imcos2021brussels
World Cartographic Products
- Indian Ocean, including Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia – nla.gov.au
- Maps of the World – nationsonline.org
- Global mapping of urban–rural catchment areas reveals unequal access to services – pnas.org
- Gridded Bathymetric Data – gebco.net/
- GEBCO Seabed2030 project – gebco.net
- Mapping populations – worldpop.org
- Windy – windy.com
Just Maps
- Native land – native-land.ca
- Ethnic composition of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1910 – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
- El mapa de la calidad de vida en Europa – elordenmundial.com
- 10 Topographic Maps From Around the World – gisgeography.com
- Uruguay Mapa Politico – elordenmundial.com
Odd Spot (x,y)
- A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France: the weird and wonderful history of man-made borders – abc.net.au
- 25 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try – au.pcmag.com
- Kiribati & Interesting Facts About Its Geographic Anomalies – brilliantmaps.com
Kindred
- Iceye unveils new wide-area imaging capability – spacenews.com
- National Baseline of High-resolution 3D Data – gwprime.geospatialworld.net
- TCarta Delivers Satellite-Derived Bathymetry to NOAA for U.S. Coastal Mapping Pilot – gisuser.com
- Plex-Earth expands to BricsCAD with satellite and aerial imagery – aecmag.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News