 Korea 2014-03-20 On March 20, 2014 Korea Post issued two new stamps depicting a cadastral readjustment project taking place in the country. These fascinating stamps show a myriad of current high-tech devices used for surveying and mapping. The 300₩ stamp features what appears to be a GPS receiver of some type and a rotary aerial drone, whose intended use in this context, is probably aerial photography. In the background is a map graphic of the Korean peninsula. The 390₩ stamp features an Android smartphone, used as a mobile mapping terminal, with a cadastral map on the display showing what may be two different sets of parcel boundaries. In the background is what appears to be an oblique aerial image of an apartment complex overlaid with some vector GIS data depicting cadastral parcel boundaries. Both stamps are issued in the same joint sheet of 20 (4×5) format. A graphic of a satellite is shown in the upper right selvedge of the sheet. [ some geospatial colleagues in the Korean government pointed out this article, in Korean, which describes the project. another article in English was published in August 2013. this is not the first depiction of a smartphone on a stamp however it may be the first time where a map is shown on the display and the device’s intended use is for field-surveying. also, while this is not the first UAV/drone to be depicted on a stamp, we think this is the first time a rotary UAV has been shown on a stamp. we welcome any additional information and discussion on this very unique and timely cartophilatelic issue. — web admin ]
 Portugal 2014-02-24 On February 24, 2014 Portuguese Post issued a souvenir sheet and single stamp to mark the 400th anniversary of the publishing of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Pilgrimage (Peregrinação). Pinto was a a Portuguese explorer and writer and the work is considered an autobiographical account of his travels and voyages throughout India, Asia and the far east. The Pilgrimage was published posthumously in 1614 and many historians have doubted the truthfulness of his many interesting stories. The €3.00 sheet features a single long stamp. A world map “Mapa do Mundo de Antonio Sanches, 1623” is shown in the background and covers about 70% of the sheet. The lower 30% of the sheet is covered by hand writing of what could be journal entries. The stamp is in the upper right hand section of the sheet, covering the continents of Africa and Asia, as depicted in the antique world map. In the bottom left corner is a sailing ship of the period and in the bottom right corner is the cover page of the Pilgrimage. The single €1.00 issue features some of the same motifs from the sheet, however there is no map.
 USA 2014-04-22 As a very fitting observance of Earth Day, the US Postal Service issued “Sea Surface Temperatures,” a new global forever stamp on April 22, 2014. The circular self-adhesive is valid for the $1.15 international forever rate, and is the second Global Forever issue to be of interest to cartophilatelists. The stamp depicts a representation of sea surface temperatures brightly colored in the ocean areas, while the land masses of north and south America and covered by a natural color satellite mosaic. “The image is one frame in a 1,460-frame animation created from the output of a computer model of Earth’s climate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. The full animation shows how the surface temperatures of the oceans vary seasonally and change over time, and how surface ocean currents and eddies transport heat and water around the globe.” While the web site did not describe the data used, the sea surface temperatures could be derived from MODIS Aqua data and the natural color mosaic also MODIS or Blue Marble. [ please contact us if you know the details of the platforms/sensors/data depicted in this stamp –web admin ]
The 45th issue of The New CartoPhilatelist has been dispatched to members. All hard copy members will again be receiving their journals shipped via HP’s MagCloud PoD service. We have decided to continue using MagCloud for both hard copy printing and distribution. The 45th issue is full of fascinating articles, news, and images. Be sure to check out the contents of this exciting issue. Some highlights in this issue are the start of a very interesting issue about the Historic Canadian Forts issues of the 1980’s and 1990’s, by James C. Hamilton. Ap Koopman reports on Surtsey – Iceland’s youngest island and its depiction on a new stamp issue from 2013. President Emeritus Miklos Pinther sends us a book review of Simon Garfield’s “On the Map” and also introduces us to the “Highway Post office” a very unique bit of history of the US Postal Service which operated from 1941 until 1974. Phil Coop introduces us to state revenue stamps from the USA with maps and a new catalog of the State Revenue Society. Ann Kiang Kee sends us a note about Bosnia-Herzegovina and the 20 page issue wraps up with Society News by President Mark Honig, and New Issues and MoS Checklist updates by David Wolfersberger.
The 2014 Q1 MoS checklist is now available. The download links are shown on the MoS Checklist page. The Maps on Stamps (MoS) Checklist Update in each issue of The New CartoPhilatelist contains new issues in grades A, AR and OC. Grade O stamps are not listed in the quarterly update, along with older map stamps that had been “overlooked” or recently “discovered.” Starting in 2014, checklist editor and vice-president David Wolfersberger will be making updates to the Maps on Stamps (MoS) Checklist freely available for download on the Society web site. These updates are formatted as Microsoft Excel files and contain the same information as listed in the Journal, plus O grade stamps and older issues that have been recently added to the Checklist. The download links are shown on the MoS Checklist page. Please feel free to download these updates and contact us if you know of any missing issues or revisions.
 New Zealand 2014-02-05 ($1.40) On February 5, 2014 New Zealand Post issued a new set of five stamps depicting native seaweeds of New Zealand. From the web site, New Zealand’s unique marine environment is home to nearly 900 species of native seaweed, a third of which occur nowhere else in the world. Seaweeds are an essential part of the marine ecosystem, providing food, habitats and shelter to a wide variety of marine life. This stamp issue reflects New Zealand’s remarkable marine biodiversity, and the five unique seaweeds portrayed are Hormosira banksii (70cents), Landsburgia quercifolia ($1.40) [shown at right], Caulerpa brownii ($1.90), Marginariella boryana ($2.40) and Pterocladia lucida ($2.90). The mini-sheet contains the same set of stamps. What appears to be a monochrome relief map of New Zealand, surrounded by bathymetric contours is shown on each stamp. Bathymetric contours are partially visible on the left edge of the mini-sheet. [thanks for the information Ingwi! -admin]
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