cartographer

[ kahr-tog-ruh-fer ]

/ kɑrˈtɒg rə fər /

a person engaged in cartography, or the production of maps.

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Question 1 of 7

What does “Indigenous” mean?

A few hundred years later, Belgian cartographer Gerard Mercator was charged with heresy.
The Secret, Contentious History of Maps|Kevin Canfield|November 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Excitement was intense while the cartographer in clerical glasses worked out the unknown number.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
Peter Martyr gives corroborative evidence that Vespucci assisted the Portuguese cartographer.
The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci|Amerigo Vespucci
The form “brazil” may have arisen through the cartographer connecting the name with the valuable brazil-wood, used for dyeing.
In Northern Mists (Volume 2 of 2)|Fridtjof Nansen

This is no doubt conjecture on the part of the cartographer.
The Iowa|William Harvey Miner
As mariner and cartographer to him it was a cape, and nothing more.
Old Plymouth Trails|Winthrop Packard