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A newly compiled digital archive collects colour gradient schemes intended for cartography, technical illustration and design work. The collection is organized by author, supports multiple file formats, and includes examples ranging from rainfall maps of the Caribbean to aeromagnetic imagery of Western Australia and lunar surface maps. Full gradient sets are available for download.
The United Nations passed a resolution, backed by the African Union, urging adoption of map projections that preserve the true relative size of continents instead of the 500-year-old Mercator projection. The vote passed 164 to 1, with the United States the lone dissenting country. Togo's foreign minister argued that maps shape how people understand the world's balance of power.
SubImage, a seed-stage startup from YC's Winter 2025 batch built on the open-source Cartography project originating at Lyft, is hiring a founding engineer in San Francisco. The four-person team maps infrastructure like an attacker would to help security teams at scale-ups and enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities, and says demand from customers is growing quickly.