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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...
- maps of the
world more
accessible than ever before. The
English term
cartography is modern,
borrowed from the
French cartographie in the 1840s, itself...
- In linguistics,
Cartographic syntax, or
simply Cartography, is a
branch of
Generative syntax. The
basic ****umption of
Cartographic syntax is that syntactic...
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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...
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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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Cartographic propaganda is a map
created with the goal of
achieving a
result similar to
traditional propaganda. The map can be
outright falsified, or created...
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cartography requires exact and
unchanging coordinates, the averaged[citation needed]
locations of
geographical poles are
taken as
fixed cartographic poles...
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Cartographic design or map
design is the
process of
crafting the
appearance of a map,
applying the
principles of
design and
knowledge of how maps are used...
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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...
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Celestial cartography, uranography,
astrography or star
cartography[citation needed] is the
aspect of
astronomy and
branch of
cartography concerned with...
