Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the making of maps and charts; cartography.
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- noun
Cartography , the making ofmaps andcharts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the making of maps and charts
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Examples
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Typically the mapmaking is done by the governor and majority party in the state legislature, and when all are of the same party they can draw maps to big partisan advantage.
GOP Is Poised to Reap a Redistricting Bonus Peter A. Brown 2010
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Across the USA, college students, citizen activists and political junkies are using similar software to break a mapmaking monopoly held for decades by state lawmakers.
Technology allows citizens to be part of redistricting process 2011
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Across the USA, college students, citizen activists and political junkies are using similar software to break a mapmaking monopoly held for decades by state lawmakers.
Technology allows citizens to be part of redistricting process 2011
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That's because of cognitive mapmaking, which is different from regular mapmaking.
Wray Herbert: Border Bias: When We Think State Lines Can Protect Against Disasters Wray Herbert 2010
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That's because of cognitive mapmaking, which is different from regular mapmaking.
Wray Herbert: Border Bias: When We Think State Lines Can Protect Against Disasters Wray Herbert 2010
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The trick is to forever remember that the map is not the territory—and that it is the territory, not mapmaking, that is of the greatest interest.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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Cook's three Pacific voyages were tours de force of exploration and mapmaking.
Man On a Quest Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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Which is partly a testament to my mapmaking (non -) skill, but also partly the purpose of a map — to render something as vast as a landscape into a comprehensible, graspable, quantifiable representation.
The Map Thing « 2009
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But the hallmark of the issue has to be Discovering America, about a young man whose attempts at mapmaking parallel between his romantic delusions.
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As a result, a man named Ted, who owned a mapmaking company in a midtown Manhattan building, offered to lease me a vacant office where I could meet with people who wanted to experience the work.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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