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.
Mapping Technologies
- Google wants to improve your smart home with iRobot’s room maps – theverge.com
- Hovermap drones dive underground to autonomously map mines and tunnels – newatlas.com
- USGS: Airplane to map geology of southeast MO, southern IL – kfvs12.com
Investigative Cartography
- Mapping the Many Tunnels Under Washington, D.C. – citylab.com
- Mapping World Happiness 2015-2018 Through 850 Million News Articles – forbes.com
- Mapping the sounds of the animal world – bbc.co.uk
- A bunch of Bengalureans are working overtime to map the city’s problems – bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com
- Mapping the World’s Urban Population in 2050 – visualcapitalist.com
- U.S. Underwater Mapping Firm Finds Wreckage of Missing Argentine Sub – news.usni.org
- Finding culture through cartography and language – retriever.umbc.edu
- Cartography: Surveying the ancient world – ilawjournals.com
Opinion
- Data advocacy group calls on Apple, Google, and Uber to share mapping data with rivals – 9to5mac.com
- 30 Under 30 In Science 2019: Mapping The Future From The Stars To Our DNA – forbes.com
- 6 Reasons You Should Always Have a Paper Map – popularmechanics.com
- The dos and don’ts of data – economist.com
- The Spatial Web Will Map Our 3D World—And Change Everything In the Process – singularityhub.com
- Best of the blogs – spatialsource.com.au
Thematic Maps
- Mapping the making of America – economist.com
- Mapping the Transcontinental Route for United Air Lines – airspacemag.com
- The long-lost maps that tell the incredible story of Manchester – manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Crowd Source Mapping
- Crowd-mapping gender equality – a powerful tool for shaping a better city launches in Melbourne – theconversation.com
- How volunteer cartographers are mapping epidemics and atrocities – economist.com
Cartographic Anomalies
- A Journey to a Morrocan Village Frozen in Time – bbc.com
- Four ‘invisible countries’ that could redraw the world map – abc.net.au
- Google Maps: Wrong directions leave young woman stranded in Arizona desert for FIVE days – express.co.uk
- I got lost in the New West crime map rabbit hole – newwestrecord.ca
Industry News
- Google adds indoor positioning to Android’s Find My Device – arstechnica.com
- Apple confirms pedestrian-level Maps data collection, initially limited to California – appleinsider.com
- 5 Startups Doing HD Mapping for Autonomous Vehicles – nanalyze.com
- New quantum technology to counteract GPS hacking – financialexpress.com
- Subterranean drone mapping startup Emesent raises $2.5M to autonomously delve the deep – techcrunch.com
- Garmin redefines marine cartography with the introduction of BlueChart g3 and LakeVü g3 with Navionics integration – businesswire.com
Cartographic Resources
- Map Section of the Statistical Abstract of Israel – cbs.gov.il
- An Atlas of Literary Maps Created by Great Authors: J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & More – openculture.com
- Christmas all mapped out – theguardian.com
- The History of the World Map by Map – geekdad.com
Cartographic uncertainty
- Ireland’s border: mapping the emotional landscape of the across and in-between – theconversation.com
Publications
- Call: Special issue on Interactive 3D Cartography – mdpi.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News