As public engagement becomes more and more important to society, it’s useful for scientists to know what makes maps and other geospatial content go viral.
Cartography
GIS Industry
GIS Conferences and Events
Upcoming GIS, remote sensing, and geography events, conferences, and webinars.
Maps and Cartography
Draft Equal Earth Physical Map Open for Public Comment
Tom Patterson, one of the developers of the recently released Equal Earth map projection, is asking for feedback from the public on his draft physical wall map based on the Equal Earth projection.
Maps and Cartography
Place Your Orders for Atlas of Design, Volumes 1 – 4
NACIS is taking pre-orders for the Atlas of Design, Volume 4 as well as orders for the first three volumes.
Maps and Cartography
The “Larousse Gastronomique” of Cartography
A new 576-page volume about the science and art of cartography has been published.
Maps and Cartography
After the Map GIS Data Available for Downloading
A bonus to the book, After the Map, is the companion site, www.afterthemap.info which offers access to all of the imagery, spreadsheets, and GIS data used in the book.
Maps and Cartography
New Edition of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users
The second edition of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users is now available from Esri Press.
GIS Learning
Neocartography Can Be Beautiful, Cartography Can Be Fast
Nicolas Regnauld, Product Manager at 1Spatial discuss the debate about neocartography versus traditional cartography and the evolution towards creating more intelligent automation tools for creating maps.
Maps and Cartography
StateFace
Here’s a font collection cartographers and those in GIS might want to download for future use. StateFace is a sets of icons for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and one showing the continental United States. The shapes have been simplified to make them easily usable for instances where […]
GIS Learning
Survey: GIS Books
Looking to build your geospatial reference library with GIS books? Listed here are essential books about geographic information systems and cartography.