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Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from
Ancient Gr****: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus,
sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the
study and practice...
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Computer cartography (also
called digital cartography) is the art, science, and
technology of
making and
using maps with a computer. This
technology represents...
- maps of the
world more
accessible than ever before. The
English term
cartography is modern,
borrowed from the
French cartographie in the 1840s, itself...
- The
cartography of the
United States is the
history of
surveying and
creation of maps of the
United States. Maps of the New
World had been
produced since...
- 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...
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Terrain cartography or
relief mapping is the
depiction of the
shape of the
surface of the
Earth on a map,
using one or more of
several techniques that...
- 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...
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Critical cartography is a set of
mapping practices and
methods of
analysis grounded in
critical theory,
specifically the
thesis that maps
reflect and...
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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...
- geography,
which included "Ptolemaic
cartographic theory." However, the
concepts of
geography (such as
cartography) date back to the
earliest attempts...
