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.

Gatherings

• EuroCarto 2026 – Eurocarto2026
• Cartes imaginaires – Exposition

Publications

• Modern Web Cartography – link.springer.com
• Esri Releases Ninth Edition of Map Use: Map reading and Design – businesswire.com

Industry News

• Ordnance Survey: Latest data release from Ordnance Survey delivers Britain’s most detailed digital map ever – wired-gov.net
• TomTom GO Navigation App Emerges as Leading Mobile Mapping Solution in 2026 – ad-hoc-news.de

The Environment

• How mapping a water-guzzling invasive weed could help refill the Great Salt Lake – sltrib.com
• Mapping global avian influenza risk patterns through waterbird activity entropy – nature.com
• Mapping and predicting groundwater accumulations using remote sensing and aeromagnetic data: a case study from Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt – nature.com
• Value of hyperspectral data for wall to wall wetland vegetation mapping in heterogeneous landscapes – nature.com
• Mapping mismanaged plastic waste in Indonesia: subdistrict-level analysis through material flow from sources to the environment – nature.com

Mapping Applications

• Mapping physical access to essential services – giscience.github.io
• Safety mapping for Iowa schools continues, but districts must now foot the bill – wqad.com
• Expedia upgrades Flight Deals with an interactive map – travelmole.com
• Whittier enlists robots to help city workers map sidewalk conditions – cbsnews.com
• Explore Cruises Faster With Cruisebound’s New Map Search Feature – travelandtourworld
• I’m walking here! A new model maps foot traffic in New York City – news.mit.edu

Nautical

• Woolpert to Support USACE I-ATLAS Coastal Mapping and Nautical Charting Efforts – prnewswire
• Greenroom inks global ocean mapping deal – businessnews.com.au
• How Ocean Maps Have Shaped Science, Politics And Climate Debate – miragenews.com

Historical

• A Glimpse into Georgian London: Rocque’s Masterpiece Reimagined – indonesiakini.id

Research & Developments

• NASA made a jaw-dropping map of Earth’s seafloor from space, using an ingenious technique – skyatnightmagazine.com
• Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem – au.pcmag.com

Cartographers

• ‘I just love doing it’: Meet the B.C. man winning international awards for his maps – cbc.ca
• Participatory mapping: A game-changer for community empowerment in southern Cameroon’s hunting zones – forestsnews.org
• The Mapmakers: Traversing the country to make maps – abc.net.au
• Shuswap marine search and rescue maps the way to faster response times on rail trail – saobserver.net
• Map Making is in the Hands of Big-tech – theswaddle.com

Related

• A map is better than a thousand words – heigit.org
• Datapath FX4 brings video mapping to Salamanca cathedral – avinteractive.com
• Map shows how big Iran is compared with the 50 US states – aljazeera.com

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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.

Featured

• Women have been mapping the world for centuries – theconversation.com

Publications

• Advances in Geovisualization Evaluation: Methods and Applications – Springer Nature Link
• A look beneath the surface of ocean mapping – Spatial Source
• How Ocean Maps Have Shaped Science, Politics And Climate Debate – Mirage News

Industry News

• Google Maps navigation gets a powerful boost with Gemini – blog.google

The Environment

• Hummingbirds fly north. When will they return to Michigan? – freep.com
• Grasslands Conservation Council of BC monitoring, mapping important ecosystem – castanetkamloops.net
• Hybrid spatiotemporal modeling of nutrient cycling in wetland ecosystems using advanced mapping techniques and machine learning approaches – nature.com
• Consensus land-cover mapping improves grassland classification in European mountain landscapes – nature.com
• The magnetic cartography of sea turtles – nature

Mapping Applications

• Capital projects system‑wide highlighted with new interactive map – news.wsu.edu
• Arlington 2026 Yamaha animated track map – supercrosslive.com
• Catbalogan City, Philippines: How Scientific Cave Mapping is Revolutionizing Sustainable Ecotourism in Samar – travelandtourworld.com
• Interactive crime map created in Ashe county – spectrumlocalnews.com

History

• Explore the Medieval Maps of the Ryukyu Kingdom Online – medievalists.net

Research & Developments

• Scientists Just Produced the Best Map of Antarctica’s Sub-glacial Landscape, and It’s Good News for Climate Change – zmescience.com
• A 10 m global “built-up” map for 2026 from Sentinel-1/-2 time-series – mdpi.com
• Satellite mapping of every building’s function in urban China reveals deep built environment disparities – nature.com
• Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming – nature.com
• Integrating geospatial intelligence and machine learning for flood susceptibility mapping – nature.com
• Mapping the marine distribution of eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus) in the Northeast Pacific using environmental DNA – nature.com
• An integrated approach of hybrid ensemble machinelearning-based efficient seismic slope fragilityassessment and GIS mapping – nature.com
• Enhancing digital mapping of soil organic carbon through spatial modeling and validation – nature.com
• Integrated GIS and AHP framework for groundwater potential mapping in a Himalayan foothill district of Northeast India – nature.com

Cartographers

• PHD student built the first-ever 3D map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere – thebrighterside.news
• Mapping the magnetic field of the Milky Way – ucalgary.ca

Collections

• Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying – qld.gov.au

Opinion

• This AI tech creates a 3D map of sports fields in real-time, enabling you to put a virtual camera anywhere. Surely I’m not the only creative who’s worried? – digitalcameraworld
• Damien Saunder outlines the tall and short of cartography – abc.net.au

Nautical

• Brazil achieves a milestone in digital nautical cartography with the production of its first S-101 ENC – hydro-international.com

Related

• Part 1: Finding Maps in Album Cover Art Using AI – damiensaunder.com
• Part 2: Finding Maps in Album Cover Art Using AI – damiensaunder.com
• Part 3: Finding Maps in Album Cover Art Using AI – damiensaunder.com

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.

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.

Featured

• From Static Maps to Living Systems: How AI Is Changing Global Mapping with Cliff Allison from TomTom youtube.com

Publications

• Tactile mapping for people with visual impairments Spatial Source
• The Lure of Mapping the Far Side of the Moon amazon.ca

The Environment

• Wildfires trigger massive soil loss for decades, new global map shows phys.org
• The highly detailed, invisible work that goes into ‘near real-time’ bushfire mapping abc.net.au
• Glacial geomorphology of the Enguri River headwaters, Georgian Caucasus Journal of Maps
• Land Use and Land Cover Analysis: An automatic Approach geoai.au
• New Ocean Explorers Map 2026 Expedition miragenews.com
• New study reveals major gaps in global forest maps keough.nd.edu
• NOAA Using Satellites & AI to Map Global Algal Blooms nesdis.noaa.gov
• World’s first high-resolution global leaf chlorophyll map can closely track plant health phys.org
• Tool to help manage saltmarsh and mangroves spatialsource
• Mapping waterholes along Australia’s drying rivers spatialsource

Mapping Applications

• Zambia maps 149 grid and off-grid rural energy projects for 2026 esi-africa.com
• Parkinson’s map of the Netherlands shows complex risk factors dutchnews.nl
• Maps show progress on national 30 x 30 plan spatialsource
• Global 3D map of 2.75 billion buildings spatialsource

History

• Months from failure: tiny flaws may have doomed Antikythera’s gears earth.com
• Introducing liquid worlds: Historical geographies and cartographies of the sea sciencedirect.com

Research & Developments

• GeoAI-The New-Frontier-of-Data-Driven-Intelligence blog.exascale-ai.in
• Deep learning in automatic map generalization: achievements and challenges tandfonline.com
• Homogenization of Northern Belgian landscapes through centuries of reclamation, agricultural transition, and urbanization nature.com
• GIScience in the era of Artificial Intelligence: a research agenda towards Autonomous GIS tandfonline.com
• New Digital Twin Platform geoai.au

Cartographers

• GPS pioneer Dr Gladys West dies at 95, leaving lasting legacy in global navigation gim-international.com
• Chi Nguyen ’28 Awarded Prize in Cartography Competition news.rhodes.edu
• This local woman created a map to help navigate Dine Out Vancouver 2026 vancouverisawesome.com
• William ‘Bill’ Richardson (1924–2025) blogs.flinders.edu.au

Maps & Atlases

• The geomorphometric atlas of Romania: an open-access database on landform classifications and morphometric variables tandfonline.com
• Ghana: Location Map (2026) reliefweb.int
• Landmark Easter Island map abc.net.au/news

Education

• Map britannica
• How large is Greenland, really? Your map may be deceiving you npr.org
• Mapping Binghamton: GIS Day showcases the versatility of high-tech maps binghamton.edu
• Where is it 2026 right now? Georgians can use these maps to see where augustachronicle

Online Maps

• OpenStreetMap Dark: The community favorite, now optimized for the night maptiler.com

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the weblink authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the ICA. The links are assembled for information and education purposes only.

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.

Featured

• Agostino Codazzi: Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República de Colombia, 1890. – wikimedia.org
• Introduction: The Chorographic Commission of New Granada – academic.oup.com
• Mapa politico de Venezuela – davidrumsey.com

Publications

• GeoKartenBrief December 2025 – GeoKartenbrief
• La Sfera – ncf.edu
• Cartographic Cinema – jstor.org
• Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829 – Cambridge Core

Opinion

• Is it time to redraw our maps? – The Guardian
• One of the greatest ‘publishing failures’ in history is still confusing human minds – earth.com

Industry

• Waze may be finally catching up to Google Maps with this highly-requested feature – Waze
• Best of 2025: Top Companies Share the Impacts of Mapping and Analytics – esri.com

Mapping Applications

• See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map – csiro.au
• Roman roads reimagined: new digital map expands the empire’s network to nearly 300,000 km – archaeologymag.com

Extraterrestrial

• Astronomers map the Sun’s true outer edge for the first time – watchers.news
• NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Delivers First Full-Sky Map, Unlocking Cosmic Secrets – gadgets360.com

Research & Developments

• Why conduct cartographic research – tandfonline.com
• AI agents put to the test for autonomous GIS – Spatial Source
• Teaching robots to map large environments – news.mit.edu
• Interactive Map of the AI Ecosystem – undp.org

Cartographers

• Derek Leask (Vale!)  – The Atlas of the New Zealand Wars
• Independent map shop celebrates 50th anniversary – bbc.com

Maps & Atlases  

• A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor – Atlantic Ocean seafloor
• Biggest Global Map of Its Kind Captures 2.75 Billion Buildings in 3D – ScienceAlert
• Hurricane Helene Story Map is Released – ncei.noaa.gov
• New interactive map shows the London areas hit hardest by crime – mylondon.news
• New maps published of Alexander Island, Antarctica – bas.ac.uk
• Latest BGS Geology 50K mapping data launched – bgs.ac.uk

Looking Back

• Digital Life in 2025 – pewresearch.org

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