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.
Cartographic reveals
- A Map of Every Building in America – nytimes.com
- Russia Updates Maps of Radioactive Debris Sunk in Arctic – maritime-executive.com
- Western Australia’s changing coastline over 125,000 years revealed with new mapping – abc.net.au
- Map: Which Cities Hold Africa’s Wealth? – visualcapitalist.com
- Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You’re Actually Living On – popularmechanics.com/
- Can This Lay Woman Transform The Way The Catholic Church Manages Its Land? – forbes.com
- Using Maps to Tell the Story of How Americans Live – nytimes.com
- Three maps show unchecked climate change’s impact – spatialsource.com.au
- Scientists Map Where Future Water Conflicts Will Be – laboratoryequipment.com
- Phosphorus Pollution Reaching Dangerous Levels Worldwide – laboratoryequipment.com
- Scientists map the impact of trawling using satellite vessel tracking – news.mongabay.com
- Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami:Before-and-After Photos of the Destruction – nytimes.com
- British ‘spy’ map of 18th Century Jacobite threat revealed – scotsman.com
- Travel Through Space and Time with 400 Years of Planetary Maps – space.com
Cartographers and Users
- MapLab: 4,000 Hours of North America – citylab.com
- Blazing a path – durangotelegraph.com
- Brisbane inspires two-storey high art in conceptual ‘map’ on the wall at GOMA – abc.net.au
Opinion
- A New Age for Maps – manchesterinklink.com
- An open source resistance takes shape as tech giants race to map the world – factordaily.com
The Power of Maps
- Maps Have the Power to Shape History – atlasobscura.com
- Mapped: Population Density With a Dot For Each Town – visualcapitalist.com
- VIDEO: 5,000 robots merge to map the universe in 3-D – phys.org
Cartographic Developments
- Like Uber, but for Cartographers – citylab.com
- Google Maps will now navigate to your favorite electric car charging station – qz.com
- Seafloor mapping XPRIZE final will be in the Mediterranean, off Greek coast – bbc.com
- Man Wearing Apple Maps Backpack Surveying San Francisco on Foot – macrumors.com
- Adding the third dimension to marine conservation – uq.edu.au
- There’s no Google Maps for self-driving cars, so this startup is building it – technologyreview.com
Cartographic Applications
- Mapping Responsible Car-Buying in the U.S. – edmunds.com
- Mapping Ebola Outbreak in DRC – ewn.co.za
- Mapping Armenia’s Edible Landscape, One Wild Bilberry Bush at a Time – smithsonianmag.com
- Laser mapping shows the surprising complexity of the Maya civilization – sciencenews.org
- Now, new primary schools in J&K to be set up on GIS mapping basis only – greaterkashmir.com
- Barents Sea ecosystem mapping fails this year from lack of equipment – uk.blastingnews.com
Cartographic Accountability
- Google and Apple taken to task over inaccurate travel estimates – abc.net.au
- Banning the box: Why Scotland’s Shetland Islands declared war on ‘lazy’ mapping practices – nationalpost.com
- Why Does Google Maps Not Recognize Palestine or its Roads? – albawaba.com
- Are you sure that digital map is accurate? – afr.com
Industry News
- FOSS4G State of Map Conference – Oceania – foss4g-oceania.org
- Geo Dubai street mapping car to do 3D mapping of Dubai – gulfnews.com
- Phantom 4 RTK Launched Globally Today: DJI’s Ultimate Mapping Solution – dronelife.com
- TomTom shares slide 13 percent after Volvo contract loss – reuters.com
Fringe
- Sensors on top of Bendigo garbage trucks mapping the strength of free Internet of Things signal – bendigoadvertiser.com.au
- Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps – theguardian.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News