eCARTO News capture 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.
The Beauty and the Beast of Cartography
- Shipping maps win at the Information Is Beautiful Awards – geographical.co.uk
- This Spellbinding Star Map Will Make Your Inner Space Geek Drool – gizmodo.com
- The lie of the land: when map makers get it wrong – in pictures – theguardian.com
- Shadow lands: the USA mapped by sunset shadows – imgur.com
- Every Single Name on This Entrancing Map is a Music Reference – wired.com
- Este El Mapa Mas Antiguo De La Ciudad De Mexico – masdemx.com
- Map of modern London inspired by John Rocque – behance.net
- Firefly Cartography – nation.maps.arcgis.com
- The Inverted World Map – Variations on a Blue Marble – 3develop.nl
Mapping From Around The World
- Drones provide a new way of tackling Cambodia’s urban planning issues – phnompenhpost.com
- Uber sets out to map Cape Town – itweb.co.za
- Garowe Mapping Exercise – reliefweb.int
- Mobile Road Mapping in Cameroon – gim-international.com
- Mapping migrations by using mobile phone data – phys.org
- The crowdsourcing movement to improve African maps – qz.com
- Mapping the Streets of Havana in 3D – citylab.com
- Palestinians craft first aerial map of refugee camp – aljazeera.com
- Map of the percentage of people speaking German in the EU by country – jakubmarian.com
Cartographic Discourse
- The Legacy of Cook and Banks: Maps with Robert Clancy – abc.net.au
- Why NYC Is the Perfect Place for Creative Map-Making – thecreatorsproject.vice.com
- What Destinations Do When Google Maps Lets Them Down – skift.com
- EU field-mapping systems need improvement, say auditors – out-law.com
- A #NoDAPL Map – huffingtonpost.com
- Did China Discover America – 1843magazine.com
- Lost Seoul: South Korea Blocks Google From Expanding Local Maps – wsj.com
Paper Maps and Globes
- Secret Soviet maps among hundreds on display at British Library exhibition – news.com.au
- You are here: 400 years of beautiful NYC maps – visualnews.com
- Globe-making in 1955. Magnificent. – facebook.com
- Paramount vs Finsteraarhorn – map.geo.admin.ch
- An exquisitely detailed view of 1519 Sevilla by Arturo Redondo, Spain – imgur.com
Online Cartographic Products
- New Interactive Map For Scotland’s Trail Centres – singletrackworld.com
- 2016 Gift Guide for Map Nerds – fastcodesign.com
- 5 Android navigation apps for those who are sick of Google Maps – cnet.com
- Mapping Words Around Australia – lingroadshow.com
- [CARTE] Travailler tue ! – neocarto.hypotheses.org
ICA Facebook Posts
- Award Winning Map Shows a More Accurate World – bigthink.com
- The Best New Maps, According to Cartographers – news.nationalgeographic.com
- 8 JavaScript Libraries for Interactive Map Visualizations – onextrapixel.com
- The Mapmaker’s Craft: A History of Cartography at CIA – cia.gov
- Rhumb Lines: Setting it straight with loxodromes – gisgeography.com
- Orienteering Maps from Around the World – omaps.worldofo.com
- Trilateration vs Triangulation – How GPS Receivers Work – gisgeography.com
- Jean Claude Golvin – jeanclaudegolvin.com
- There Are Many Ways to Map Election Results. We’ve Tried Most of Them. – nytimes.com
- Why Paper Road Maps Won’t Die – bbc.com
- Coast Lines – geographical.co.uk
Cartography and Nature
- Impact on nature of the New Zealand earthquake – au.news.yahoo.com
- Alternative South Island road ‘imagined’ as drones survey slips – stuff.co.nz
- The University of Waterloo created a goose-tracking map, because geese are bullies – theverge.com
- 16th Disaster Risk Management Seminar “Seismic Preparedness Map for Community Resilience” – worldbank.org
- The city’s flood map goes global – thehindu.com
Our changing world
- The increasingly globalised world of football – geographical.co.uk
- Facebook’s detailed open-source maps show the gaps in global internet connectivity – qz.com/840977
- Tech would use drones and insect biobots to map disaster areas – sciencedaily.com
- Google Maps now tells consumers how busy stores are in real time – businessinsider.com
- Out of Africa: Humanity’s Journey around the Planet – viewsoftheworld.net
Frontier Mapping
- A treasure trove of shipwrecks has been revealed by a new mapping technology – businessinsider.com.au
- First ever lightning-mapping satellite set for take off – newscientist.com
- Mapping the cosmic web with fast radio bursts – astronomynow.com
- Apple patents augmented reality mapping system for iPhone – appleinsider.com
- Mapping the ocean with three dimensions of data – gcn.com
- See a Virtual Milky Way Map from Europe’s Gaia Spacecraft – space.coml
- Dawn Journal: 5th Mapping Orbit – planetary.org
- SpaceX to launch NASA ocean-mapping satellite – bizjournals.com
Industry Websites
- A-Z Digital – azdigital.co.uk
- Le Dessous des Cartes – ddc.arte.tv
- Nosolosig – nosolosig.com/
- La calidad de la Información Geográfica en América Latina – nosolosig.com
- Razón Cartográfica – razoncartografica.com
- Adding value and removing friction in our flagship mobile app, OS Maps – ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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