Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art or technique of making maps or charts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art or business of forming charts or maps.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the making of maps and charts

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French cartographie : carte, map (from Old French, from Latin charta, carta, paper made from papyrus; see card) + -graphie, writing (from Greek -graphiā; see –graphy).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French cartographie, from carte ("map") (ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khartēs, "sheet of paper")) + -graphie ("-graphy") (, from γράφω (graphō, "write")).

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Examples

  • Because I happened to look over at the table next to me and saw a copy of Imago Mundi, the International Journal of the History of Cartography sitting at a nice gentleman's table, and proceeded to have a long conversation with a former boatbuilder turned graduate student in cartography, finishing his dissertation on commercial Dutch maps of the 18th century.

    I Love the Smell of Maps in the Morning yuki_onna 2010

  • Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen (1795-1869) was a Flemish cartographer responsible for what has been described as "one of the most remarkable developments of private enterprise in cartography".

    Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s 2008

  • Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen (1795-1869) was a Flemish cartographer responsible for what has been described as "one of the most remarkable developments of private enterprise in cartography".

    Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s 2008

  • Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen (1795-1869) was a Flemish cartographer responsible for what has been described as "one of the most remarkable developments of private enterprise in cartography".

    Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s 2008

  • Most of this recent amateur digital cartography is taking place upon the solid foundations of government-funded topographic mapmaking.

    Boing Boing: July 13, 2003 - July 19, 2003 Archives 2003

  • I don't know what the underlying rationale is and if this is a standard practice in cartography.

    Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009

  • I don't know what the underlying rationale is and if this is a standard practice in cartography.

    One problem with Google Maps AYDIN 2009

  • The fifth and sixth principles of the rhizome are those of "cartography" and "decalcomania".

    Archive 2005-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • The fifth and sixth principles of the rhizome are those of "cartography" and "decalcomania".

    Rhizome@Internet Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • It published important findings in areas such as cartography, irrigation, cotton cultivation, and desert studies.

    1874 2001

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