cartographer
[kahr-tog-ruh-fer]
- a person engaged in cartography, or the production of maps.
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Examples from the Web for cartographer
Contemporary Examples
A few hundred years later, Belgian cartographer Gerard Mercator was charged with heresy.
Historical Examples
It was Puget Sound, said Tom, the cartographer of the occasion.
Gulf and GlacierWillis Boyd Allen
This is no doubt conjecture on the part of the cartographer.
The IowaWilliam Harvey Miner
As mariner and cartographer to him it was a cape, and nothing more.
Old Plymouth TrailsWinthrop Packard
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
We may consequently suppose that the cartographer availed himself of the sources then at his disposal.
In Northern Mists (Volume 2 of 2)Fridtjof Nansen