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EuroCarto 2026 in Brno: Cartography Moving Forward — ICA News
he EuroCarto 2026, held from 8–11 September 2026 in Brno, Czechia, brought the European and international cartographic community together for four intensive days of scientific exchange. Hosted by Masaryk University and organised by the Czech Cartographic Society under the…
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Welcome to the New World Map — Maps Mania
Yesterday the UN General Assembly voted to replace its traditional world maps - based on Mercator - with a map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa - based on the 2018 Equal Earth map. My Equal Earth vs Web Mercator map allows you to compare how these two maps depict…
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GenAI for cartographers — Spatialists.ch
Daniel Huffmann shares candid, hands-on experiments with #generativeAI in #cartography, weighing its extractive nature against genuinely useful, time-saving applications. This is a refreshingly honest take on where #genAI fits into cartographic workflows without undercutting…
Maps matter – and so does the choice of map projection — ICA News
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) welcomes the renewed global attention to map projections following the adoption of the recent United Nations General Assembly resolution encouraging the use of equal-area map projections, including Equal Earth, when the relative…
Mercator vs Equal Earth — Maps Mania
The UN General Assembly has just endorsed a new position on world maps that aims to represent the relative size of the world’s land masses more accurately, with the difference being particularly obvious when you compare Africa and Greenland. The resolution, backed by 164…
A practical guide to map projection mistakes — Spatialists.ch
Dominic Royé breaks down common #map #projection mistakes and how to fix them, with a clear taxonomy of equal-area, conformal, compromise, azimuthal, and equidistant projections. Examples use #RStats, but the lessons apply to any toolset.