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Definition of CARTOGRAPHY

Cartography
Cartography Car*tog"ra*phy, n. [Cf. F. cartographie. See Card, and -graphy.] The art or business of forming charts or maps.

Meaning of CARTOGRAPHY from wikipedia

- Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Gr****: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice...
- The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been...
- geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the earliest attempts...
- The Cartographic Journal (first published June 1964) is an established peer-reviewed academic journal of record and comment that is published on behalf...
- Cartographic generalization, or map generalization, includes all changes in a map that are made when one derives a smaller-scale map from a larger-scale...
- Celestial cartography, uranography, astrography or star cartography[citation needed] is the aspect of astronomy and branch of cartography concerned with...
- maps. Cartography or map-making is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon a flat surface (see History of cartography), and...
- Critical cartography Terrain cartography Geodesy Geomatics Topography Cartography of Africa Cartography of Asia Cartography of China Cartography of India...
- The cartography of the region of Palestine, also known as cartography of the Holy Land and cartography of the Land of Israel, is the creation, editing...
- Chinese cartography began in the 5th century BC during the Warring States period when cartographers started to make maps of the Earth's surface. Its scope...