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.
Feature
- 100 Amazing World Maps – farandwide.com
- Fascinating maps that show the world as you’ve never seen it – telegraph.co.uk
- 25 Satellite Maps To See Earth in New Ways – gisgeography.com
Why We Love Maps
- Storytelling with maps: Master the art of cartography and geo data visualisation – theguardian.com
- The Amazing Pictorial Map That Captured the Soul of Los Angeles – citylab.com
- This Enormous 100-Year-Old Map of Rome is Still the City’s Best – nationalgeographic.com
- Survey Maps of India – zenodo.org
- The Art & Tradition of Drawing Maps – manuscriptmaps.com
- At the Boston Public Library, mapping US history from sea to not-so-shining sea – bostonglobe.com
Information from Maps
- 20 Most-Visited Countries in the World – farandwide.com
- Average population by Latitude and Longitude – reddit.com
- How Australia’s bushfires spread: mapping the NSW and Queensland fires – theguardian.com
Practical Cartographic Assistance
- Georeferencing – bc.library.uu.nl
- Open Access Tracking Project – tagteam.harvard.edu
Cartographic Intrigue
- Atlas Miller: Cartographic fake news and the Magellan expedition – historyextra.com
On Thin Air
- The art of the airline map – marketplace.org
- The Rise and Fall of the Exuberant Airline Map – citylab.com
- Cartographer Job in Air Force Academy, Colorado – Department of the Air Force – lemonwire.com
Opinion
- The edge of the map: the steady decline of topographical cartography – smh.com.au
- Predicting the Future of Surveying & Mapping for the Drone Industry in 2020 with Lewis Graham – commercialuavnews.com
- A Researcher Explains Why Those Beautiful Infographic Maps Can Be So Misleading – sciencealert.com
Industry News
- Garmin releases expanded cartography of U.S. coastline – tradeonlytoday.com
- India Launches Advanced Earth-Mapping Satellite and 13 US Cubesats – space.com
- EUROSENSE expands its mapping capabilities – directionsmag.com
- How to Remove the Burden of Managing Map Data – directionsmag.com
- Sony adds AI to its agriculture mapping system – spatialsource.com.au
- 3D Mapping and Modeling in Mapping Market 2019 – technologymagazine.org
Cartographic Resources, Education & Employment
- 12th Mountain Cartography Workshop – shadedrelief.com
- GIS Tutorials – astrogeology.usgs.gov
- Geography – ed.ted.com
- Custom Maps – Bespoke, branded mapping made easy – oxfordcartographers.com
- Cartography: An Introduction – cartography.org.uk
- $10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity – mongabay.com
- Talking Wreck-Mapping in Bournemouth – divernet.com
Really?
- Rare world map found in Oxfam shop sells for £3.5k – bbc.com
- Hilariously Bad Attempts By Americans to Draw Europe From Memory, With an Unexpected Twist – brilliantmaps.com
- What Happens to the Plastic We Throw Out – nationalgeographic.com
- The Mystery of Extraordinarily Accurate Medieval Maps – discovermagazine.com
- Russians Were Once Banned From a Third of the U.S. – nationalgeographic.com
Cartographers
- Bert Johnson, 1946-2019 – maproomblog.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News