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.
Mapping the Marine Environment
- Largely unknown planet earth – afr.com
- Dozens of ancient shipwrecks found accidentally during Black Sea mapping – abc.net.au
- Great Barrier Reef climate history unlocked as CSIRO maps offshore Queensland Basin – abc.net.au
- In an octopus’s garden – economist.com
- Mapping the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – spatialsource.com.au
Industry News
- Book: After the Map – yale.edu
- History of Cartography Conference – fafich.ufmg.br
- Google Maps gets food delivery, plus code integration in update – appleinsider.com
- Silicon Valley VCs raise millions for an Aussie drone mapping startup – mashable.com
- Four years and one embarrassment later, Apple Maps is genuinely worthy of challenging Google Maps – businessinsider.com
- Here, a Digital Mapping Service, Uses Crowd-Sourcing to Plot Roads – electronicdesign.com
- IBM and Esri Team Up to Offer Cognitive Analytics and IoT in the IBM Cloud – businesswire.com
Cartography from ICA Nations
- Le Dessous des Cartes – ddc.arte.tv
- Nosolosig – nosolosig.com
- La calidad de la Información Geográfica en América Latina – nosolosig.com
- Razón Cartográficarazoncartografica.com
- Mapping Africa’s natural resources – aljazeera.com
- Noise mapping in major cities on: State tells Bombay High Court – dnaindia.com
Mapping Around The World
- You Can Help Map the Accessibility of the World – nextcity.org
- Mapping the Streets of Havana in 3D – citylab.com
- Qardho – Mapping Exercise – May 2016 – reliefweb.int
- National Archives maps Gibraltar’s past – chronicle.gi
- Ethiopia soil map arms farmers with new fertilisers in climate fight – reuters.com
- New permafrost map shows regions vulnerable to thaw, carbon release – phys.org
- Mesmerizing Map Shows the Real-Time Weather for Every Place in the World – popularmechanics.com
Cartographic Eucation
- Mapping data and visualizing geospatial information: A quick introduction for journalists – journalistsresource.org
Paper Maps
- 7 maps that show how our understanding of the world changed dramatically – businessinsider.com.au
- Why paper maps won’t die – bbc.com
- The Chimey Map – youtube.com
- Back on the map: Why paper sometimes isn’t enough to help you find your way – independent.co.uk
- Mapping 26 Kaleidoscopic New York Cities – citylab.com
Opinion
- Maps are as much about art – and lies – as science – spectator.co.uk
- EU field-mapping systems need improvement, say auditors – out-law.com
- Five GIS Projects That Are Changing The Way We Understand Racism – forbes.com
- From DNA Mapping To Self-Driving Cars: 5 Predictions For Our Digital Future – forbes.com
- Google is turning Maps into a social platform – businessinsider.com
- What Mars Maps Got Right (and Wrong) Through Time – news.nationalgeographic.com
- Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood: lives of the desert mapped on an artist’s skin – smh.com.au
- Love hiking, hate maps? Then let us locate the right GPS gadget for you – theguardian.com
Maps
- Maps for autonomous vehicles – electronics-eetimes.com
- Population Mapping With Real-Time Mobile Phone Data – rtinsights.com
- Mapped: Where London’s Lost Poets Are Buried – londonist.com
- How do you make a map of the internet? – qz.com
- The veins of America: Stunning map shows every river basin in the US – dailymail.co.uk
ICA Facebook Posts
- The remarkable history of GIS – gisgeography.com
- Projection & Coordinates – mjfoster83.github.io
- Earth’s Magnetic Declination – sos.noaa.gov
- Mapping A London Epidemic – nationalgeographic.org
- Discover One of History’s Most Ambitious Maps – nationalgeographic.org
- The Place Furthest From Land is Known as Point Nemo – bbc.com
- These gorgeous new Alaska maps could transform our understanding of the Arctic – washingtonpost.com
- What’s This LIDAR That Revealed a Secret Cambodian City? – inverse.com
- Earth : a global map of wind, weather, weather, and ocean conditions – earth.nullschool.ne
Cartography and Science
- Mapping buried magnetism – news.mit.edu
- Could Heat Mapping Be An Equalizer For Physical Stores? – forbes.com
- Pilot study demonstrating airborne MT data for geothermal exploration in BC – thinkgeoenergy.com
- In case you missed them: Six scientific successes that stole the show this year – wildcat.arizona.edu
- Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution – theglobalist.com
- Autonomous robot that can navigate, explore and digitally map hard-to-access areas – phys.org
- Scientists Produce A Stunningly Detailed Map Of The Milky Way – huffingtonpost.com.au
Cartography as Art
- Mapping the World’s Great Cities in a Most Unusual, Yet Visually Arresting, Fashion – smithsonianmag.com
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