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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...
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Fantasy cartography,
fictional map-making, or
geofiction is a type of map
design that
visually presents an
imaginary world or concept, or
represents a...
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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...
- 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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Computer cartography (also
called digital cartography) is the art, science, and
technology of
making and
using maps with a computer. This
technology represents...
- The
cartography of
India begins with
early charts for
navigation and
constructional plans for buildings.
Indian traditions influenced Tibetan and Islamic...
- Grafton, Anthony.
Cartographies of Time. New York City:
Princeton Architectural Press. p. 13. Rosenberg, Daniel; Grafton, Anthony.
Cartographies of Time. New...
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cartography requires exact and
unchanging coordinates, the averaged[citation needed]
locations of
geographical poles are
taken as
fixed cartographic poles...
