Definition of Cartography. Meaning of Cartography. Synonyms of Cartography

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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...
- maps of the world more accessible than ever before. The English term cartography is modern, borrowed from the French cartographie in the 1840s, itself...
- 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 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...
- Critical cartography is a set of mapping practices and methods of analysis grounded in critical theory, specifically the thesis that maps reflect and...
- In linguistics, Cartographic syntax, or simply Cartography, is a branch of Generative syntax. The basic ****umption of Cartographic syntax is that syntactic...
- 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...
- The International Cartographic ****ociation (ICA) (French: ****ociation Cartographique Internationale, ACI) is an organization formed of national member...
- geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the earliest attempts...