The Catalog of Planetary Maps.
Sources: The research that led to this catalog was supported by Fulbright Hungary Grant No. 1222202, awarded to H. Hargitai for research at USGS Astrogeology, Flagstaff, Arizona (advisor: Trent Hare), and by the ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography (advisor: Kira Shingareva). Most of the data is based on the inventory of the map library of USGS Astrogeology.
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Map 5510
Pluto — globe
The globe was produced by Keith Boulger
Cartographer of the base map: Noah Saunders
The map is based on NASA's New Horizon's LORRI images
Exhibited at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ.
Date: July 2015 (!), using the first close-up images of New Horizons.
About the base maps: The maps were made by projecting New Horizons images onto a sphere, and then unwrapping them into a new cylindrical projection map from it. The cylindrical bits were assembled together into a single map with some brightness and colour corrections for a smooth merge of the parts.
Softwares used: Blender 3D and GIMP.
More images here
Charon map also by Noah Saunders here.
Literature
The Lowell Observer 2015/105
https://lowell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Lowell-Observer-Fall-2015-web.pdf