cartography
the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
Origin of cartography
1Other words from cartography
- car·to·graph [kahr-tuh-graf, -grahf], /ˈkɑr təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/, noun
- car·tog·ra·pher, noun
- car·to·graph·ic [kahr-tuh-graf-ik], /ˌkɑr təˈgræf ɪk/, car·to·graph·i·cal, adjective
- car·to·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby cartography
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How to use cartography in a sentence
And, of course, Google dominates the field of cartography, which, from the 17th to the mid-20th Century, was often a direct extension of sovereign power.
Why a Russian Invasion of Ukraine Would Be a Big Test for Google Maps | Catherine Grace Katz | February 15, 2022 | TimeWestern cartography blends with nebulous regions where tribes both lived and live, where languages were spoken and are spoken, and where Indigenous peoples and colonizers formed treaties.
Hans taught himself celestial cartography for this purpose, and to create the sky-view maps that appear in both The Stars and Find the Constellations.
Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author’s Astronomy Books. - Issue 112: Inspiration | Dan Falk | January 5, 2022 | NautilusThey met in a cartography class at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1980 and started making mountain-biking maps before the sport was really a thing.
The study, led by Bo Zhao from the University of Washington, is not intended to alarm anyone but rather to show the risks and opportunities involved in applying this rather infamous technology to cartography.
Beyond Baghdad the line drawn between Syria, now the property of France, and Iraq was more cartography than anthropology.
The book is an interesting blend of forms, part cartography, philosophy, travelogue, and poetry.
Official cartography again showed a single territory, from the sea to the river.
Cassini was right in saying that cartography was no longer at its height as a science.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers | Jules VerneThe bringing forward of the Cantino map confirms much of the supposed cartography.
We come now to two significant maps in the early history of American cartography.
It is to the work of Allefonsce that we probably owe another confusion of this northern cartography in the sixteenth century.
Hence mathematical geography (see Map), including cartography as a practical application, comes first.
British Dictionary definitions for cartography
chartography
/ (kɑːˈtɒɡrəfɪ) /
the art, technique, or practice of compiling or drawing maps or charts
Origin of cartography
1Derived forms of cartography
- cartographer or chartographer, noun
- cartographic (ˌkɑːtəˈɡræfɪk), cartographical, chartographic or chartographical, adjective
- cartographically or chartographically, adverb
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Scientific definitions for cartography
[ kär-tŏg′rə-fē ]
The art or technique of making maps or charts.
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