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 the editor of eCARTO News.
General News
- Cartography as a Tool for Geospatial Decision Support – gim-international.com
Applications
- Mesmerising map of the London Underground plots journeys in ‘real-time’ – london24.com
- Maps of Languages in America – slate.com
- New project to develop satellite mapping of growing crops – farmersguardian.com
- GIS for Real Estate” blends mapping, real estate analysis – utdmercury.com
- Google Maps Mobile Users Can Now Get Waze Traffic Reports – eweek.com
- This Amazing New Map Charts ‘Moments,’ Rather Than Places – theatlanticcities.com
Industry News
- Google Maps Camera-toting teams map Fla. beaches – dailyamerican.com
- What’s Apple’s Mapping Shopping Spree Really About? – streetfightmag.com
- Winfield Launches New Mapping Capabilities For R7 Tool – croplife.com
- Forget tablets. Nokia has a bigger connected gadget in mind: the car – gigaom.com
- CityMaps Launches Official iOS App That Aims To Make Mapping Social – techcrunch.com
- How the Financial Times has upped its mapping game – journalism.co.uk
Archaeological and Cultural Mapping
- Mapping the Watery Maya Underworld – newswatch.nationalgeographic.com
- Drones used for archeological mapping in Peru – cbc.ca
- Mapping indigenous language across Australia – australiangeographic.com.au
- Indigenous peoples vow to map customary forests – eco-business.com
- Mapping the Latino Population, By State, County and City – hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
- GIS mapping of religious properties in India – futuregov.asia
- 11 countries attend global conference to map out indigenous areas – thejakartapost.com
- Indigenous communities deploy high-tech mapmaking to staunch global land grab – sciencecodex.com
- Map project aims to promote Menominee tribal history – wausaudailyherald.com
- UNC Develops Online Tool For Mapping History – wunc.org
- Mapping where English is not the language at home – washingtonpost.com
3D Mapping
- 3-D mapping in real time, without the drift – web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013
- Developers take mapping indoors – globalnews.ca
- How 3D maps can get more accurate – gcn.com
- Barbican gets creative with 3D video projection mapping – conference-news.co.uk
- 3D-mapping fixes woman’s heart – iol.co.za
- Attitude Enterprises to present 3D Interactive Kinetic Mapping System – ameinfo.com
- Tech tidbits: Artificial intelligence for electric car and 3D mapping – livemint.com
- Norway says no way to Apple’s 3D mapping – venturebeat.com
- 3D imaging firm captures $3.5 mil’ airborne mapping contract – sparpointgroup.com
- 3D Laser Mapping Launches New Mobile Mapping Data Logger – amerisurv.com
- Patent Application Titled “Three-Dimensional Mapping Using Scanning Electron Microscope Images” Published Online – hispanicbusiness.com
Education and Resources
- Beautiful, Interactive Maps for the Classroom (Now with GIS Analysis!) – directionsmag.com
- The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts – publishersweekly.com
- How Do You Determine Accuracy in Mapping? – pobonline.com
Political and Social Cartography
- Mapping unemployment in Oregon, county by county – oregonlive.com
- Mapping Politics – psmag.com
- Mapping Ithaca: Minorities Tend to Live on City’s Periphery – cornellsun.com
- Huawei wishes Pakistan happy independence with map that gets its borders wrong – qz.com
- Interactive Map Color-Codes Race of Every Single American – newswatch.nationalgeographic.com
- Breaking the silence: how online mapping is tackling gender-based violence – theguardian.com
Planetary Cartography
- New rotational phase mapping method aids in search for habitable planets – wildcat.arizona.edu
- Mapping the planet’s ups and downs – google.com.au
Opinion
- Do our brains pay a price for GPS? – bostonglobe.com
- Mapping Bible Contradictions – patheos.com
Environmental Mapping
- New Mapping Technology: Nova Scotia’s Powerful Ally in Protecting Valuable Forests – insights.wri.org
- Mapping the Congo – scidev.net
- Mapping the Monaro koala – canberratimes.com.au
- Modern explorers head underground in B.C. to map uncharted territory – theprovince.com
- Mapping a city’s risks, Haiti youth learn about health and technology – unicef.org
- 621 – The Fire Last Time: Mapping Blazes Past, Present – and Future – bigthink.com
- Mapping New York City’s Biggest Energy Guzzlers And Savers – ny.curbed.com
- Nod for aquifer mapping – business-standard.com
- Mapping the Watery Maya Underworld – newswatch.nationalgeographic.com
- Gov’t to build e-map system to counter possible large quake – globalpost.com
CrowdSourcing and Social Media
- USGS Needs YOU! Help Our National Mapping Efforts By Adding Your Community’s Landmarks and Buildings – directionsmag.com
- Google Maps rival OpenStreetMap makes slick ‘iD’ editor its default map making tool – thenextweb.com
- Uncharted territory: amateur cartographers fight to put their communities on the map – wired.co.uk
- Crowd-mapping With Cell Phones – spectrum.ieee.org
- “Crowd-Sourced Vision and Sensor-Surveyed Mapping” in Patent Application Approval Process – hispanicbusiness.com
Tourist Mapping
- Paddling trail mapped along 800 miles in Southeast – ledger-enquirer.com
Art in Cartography
- Barbara’s mapping out the way ahead – shieldsgazette.com
- Austrialia – redbubble.com
Cartography Lite
- The Happiest States In America In One Map (INFOGRAPHIC) – huffingtonpost.com
- The saddest spot in New York – stuff.co.nz/science/
- You Won’t Believe How Insanely Detailed This Guy’s Fictional Maps Are. Seriously. – wired.com
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