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
- Virginia’s Deaf Communities: A Spatial Story – deaflibva.org
Cartouche & Sea Monsters & Symbols
- Cartouches, or Decorative Map Titles – davidrumsey.com
- Map of the world showing Drake’s voyage – collection.sl.nsw.gov.au
- Alexander de Lavaux, “Algemeene Kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname,” after 1758 – jcblibrary.org
- The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps – ocean.si.edu
- Signs of the times: Ordnance Survey to consult on new map symbols – theguardian.com
Artificial Intelligence & Search Engines
- AI Map Search Finds Atlantis – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
- Map shows each country’s DREAM job based on Google search data – businessinsider.com
- Diving Deeper: How AI is helping to map the way Western Australia protects its sea floor – news.microsoft.com
Industry News
- Google Maps is expanding Immersive View to routes – engadget.com
- What map app is the best on Apple Carplay and Android Auto? – drive.com.au
- 3D geospatial company partners with Google Maps Platform – geospatialworld.net
Just Maps
- Worldwide Golf Courses – reddit.com
- Indonesia 1943 – loc.gov
- Maps of You (and Everyone You Know) – blogs.loc.gov
- A map of submarine cables connecting British Empire in 1902 – eddit.com
- Mapping a Mughal City – accartbooks.com
- Distance from the coast in Denmark – mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
- First Nations of Australia Map – wildwoodmaps.com
Projections & Panoramas & 3D
- Scandinavian Airlines System Spiral Polar Projection reddit.com
- How curved is Chile? – reddit.com
- Panoramic map of the Caucasus – ericknightmaps.net
- Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country – loc.gov
- Cosmic Growth Map Backs Einstein’s Gravity Theory – miragenews.com
- Mapping reception of latitude and longitude in early modern China – miragenews.com
- First results of 3D mapping Nessebar’s ancient town revealed – gim-international.com
Transport
- The Rise & Fall of the Irish Railway – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
Collectives
- Washington Map Society – washmapsociety.org
The Environment
- Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2022 – svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability – zacklabe.com
- Mapping the World’s Highest Mountains, By Continent – visualcapitalist.com
- Discovering the Gulf Stream – divediscover.whoi.edu
- Nigerian Navy joins global mission to map the ocean floor – hydro-international.com
- Eyesea and Mapbox improve ocean pollution mapping capabilities – seatrade-maritime.com
Related
- Mapping Long-term Land Use Change with Remote Sensing Data – gislounge.com
- Mapping Tornado Tracks with Satellite Data – gislounge.com
- The First Images from EUMETSAT MTG-I1 – googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
- Atacama Cosmology Telescope Reveals New Dark Matter Map – miragenews.com
You Can’t Be Serious
- 30 Of The Weirdest And Most Interesting Geography Facts You Probably Didn’t Know – boredpanda.com
- Hilarious Terrible Maps – farandwide.com
- Flat Earther accidently proves Earth is round – indy100.com
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Category: eCARTO News, General News