Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who makes maps; a cartographer.
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- noun A person who makes
maps
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Examples
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The mapmaker is my niece, so she knows where I am going with this.
The Naming System of the World of The Last Stormlord Glenda Larke 2009
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Eugene Scheel is a historian and mapmaker who lives in Waterford.
At country auctions, many treasures are in the eye of the beholder Post 2010
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Bonus Birthday: An Italian mapmaker was born on this date.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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Eugene Scheel is a historian and mapmaker who lives in Waterford.
Fauquier school bus driver recalls taking students to Jennie Dean School Post 2010
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Bonus Birthday: An Italian mapmaker was born on this date.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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Eugene Scheel is a historian and mapmaker who lives in Waterford.
At country auctions, many treasures are in the eye of the beholder Post 2010
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There are also some really cool maps online – many with Virginia and local ties – by Jed Hotchkiss, who was a confederate mapmaker under Jackson and Lee.
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Some of the mistakes are worthy of Finnegans Wake: the ancient name of Queen Taillteann, for instance, was transcribed by one mapmaker as Telltown, while Monaster O'Lynn (O'Lynn's Monastery) became "Moneysterlin".
Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt - review Ian Pindar 2010
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Cook's considerable maritime achievements as a navigator and mapmaker.
An Interview with Tony Horowitz, author of Blue Latitudes 2010
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It was named ‘America’ by a mapmaker who never even came here.
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