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.
Cartography – raison d’être
- Why Cartography Still Matters – directionsmag.com
Cartography and Art
- Artist Spends 520 Hours Reimagining World Map as a Giant 20-Foot-Wide Tapestry – mymodernmet.com
- Eric Knight Maps – ericknightmaps.com
- De Keramieken Kaart van Delft – keramiekenkaart.nl
History
- The Miller Atlas, 1519, the atlas of the first circumnavigation of the world – youtube.com
Mapping the Environment
- Mapping app uses air quality data to show local impacts – smartcitiesdive.com
- Mapping the 1.6 billion people who live near forests – sciencedaily.com
- Swoop maps track aggressive magpies across Australia – news.com.au
- The Geospatial Commission is creating a complete map of the UK’s underground world – geographical.co.uk
- Mapping our wasted heat – miragenews.com
- New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States – projects.propublica.org
Cartographic Industry News
- Google Maps just got one of its most important updates ever – bgr.com
- Uber’s India team led map updates during lockdown – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- Five of the best online mapping apps – theguardian.com
Map Collections
- Tooley Collection – nla.gov.au
- 15 Vintage Online Map Collections to Explore – mentalfloss.com
Cartography Resources & Research
- Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity – h-net.org
- International Society for the History of the Map V Symposium – youtube.com
Techniques
- Making 3D terrain Maps – shadedrelief.com
- The Race to Map Reality so Silicon Valley Can Augment It Is On – slate.com
- IndyGo tests accessibility for future public transit lines with mobility mapping project – wthr.com
- A beautiful map poster and the absurd hack it inspired – esri.com
- Mapping a better future for Africa’s farmers – weforum.org
Boundaries
- Cherokee Nation reservation boundaries, including Owasso, Collinsville, now visible on Google Maps – tulsaworld.com
- The Partition of Antarctica – vividmaps.com
Just Maps
- Five maps you (and your team) should see – esri.com
Cartography – 3D and Animated
- Interactive 3D globes – dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au
- Mount Everest 3D Map – shadedrelief.com
- These 3D maps show the world’s population clusters like you’ve never seen them – weforum.org
- Animated Map: The Comparative Might of Continents – visualcapitalist.com
Cartography and Modelling
- Mapping fast-growing informal settlements in Africa to reveal where roads and infrastructure are most needed – novumintel.com
- Mapping global trends in vaccine confidence and investigating barriers to vaccine uptake – thelancet.com
- 3D Mapping And Modeling In Mapping Industry 2020 – thedailychronicle.in
Awards and Sources
- British Cartographic Society Awards – cartography.org.uk
- EOSGIS Cartography Magazine – paper.li
- Annual 100m global land cover maps available! – land.copernicus.eu
Maps and Measurement
- Here’s why the Cameron Peak Fire dropped about 1K acres with new mapping tool – coloradoan.com
- The Mystery of Extraordinarily Accurate Medieval Maps – discovermagazine.com
Cartotherapy
- America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them – nytimes.com
- Witch Trials Of Salem – public.tableau.com
- Who Really Was First to Travel Around the World? – youtube.com
- Il Parcourt Les Pistes Cyclables De L’Ile D’Oleron Pour Google Maps – fredzone.org
- Explore the galactic map that could guide aliens to Earth – nationalgeographic.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News