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.
Insights
- Mapping science: How GIS transformed our view of the world – news.ucsb.edu
- Maps are greater storytellers than any novel. That is their wonder – telegraph.co.uk
- 3 ways Google maps protects users from fake and unhelpful content – tech.hindustantimes.com
Digital
- New digital map of underground pipes and cables on track to grow economy – worldpipelines.com
- Holiday Interactive Map Reveals Food Origins – miragenews.com
- B.C. Search and Rescue warns of overreliance on online maps – globalnews.ca
- WhaleVis turns more than a century of whaling data into an interactive map – alaska-native-news.com
- Survey to map seabed around MS Estonia wreck – news.err.ee
Just Maps
- Fisheye view of Chattanooga and vicinity showing troop positions in 1863 – loc.gov
- The Pacific Rim – Reddit
- 1799 Vancouver Map of Vancouver Island, Washington, and Puget Sound – Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
- 1840 QMG Manuscript Map of Kandahar, Afghanistan and its Immediate Environs – Antique Maps
- Skiing’s Next Illustrious Map Designer Unveils New Work – powder.com
Industry
- 1m Square Kilometers of Updated Satellite Imagery in Europe and Brazil – Mapbox
- NUVIEW’s quest to map Earth’s land surface every year – geoweeknews.com
Education & Training & Opportunities
- Analemma: The Sun’s Pattern in the Sky – Geography Realm
- Communicating with maps – The art of cartography – mapscaping.com
Cartographers
- Scientists Clinch Top Prize at 2023 National Mapping Science Award – miragenews.com
- Darlington man turned his passion for creating Lord of the Rings-style fantasy maps into a full-time career – chroniclelive.co.uk
- Adventure cartography: High-tech and high-touch – wvnews.com
- ‘I wanted to do something useful’: the teenager who drew edible maps for Australia’s wartime pilots – theguardian.com
Environment
- Climate Change is Affecting the Color of the Ocean – Geography Realm
- A new map points at the impacts of rare earth elements – phys.org
- Mapping health of Canada’s lakes – miragenews.com
- New maps show where snowfall is disappearing – edition.cnn.com
- Massive find made by seafloor mapping team in Pacific Ocean, scientists say – news.yahoo.com
- USDA releases updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map – ruralradio.com
Related
- History Tree of Europe – David Rumsey
- Ancient Makkah-centered map fetches over $2m at auction in London – arabnews.com
- USDA updates plant hardiness map for the first time in more than a decade – npr.org
- Cardiff volunteers help to map city’s ancient and veteran trees – nation.cymru
- Autonomous excavator creates 3D map of rocks to build 19-foot-tall wall – uk.news.yahoo.com
- Modeling walking accessibility to urban parks using Google Maps crowdsourcing database in the high-density urban environments of Hong Kong – nature.com
- Vietnam on Dutch maps – miragenews.com
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