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...
- The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been...
- Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents...
- Cartography is an album by Arve Henriksen. On the album Cartography, Henriksen takes us into varied soundscapes that evoke streams of images. Together...
- In geographic information systems, a geocell (or geo-cell) is a patch on the surface of the Earth that is 1 degree of latitude by 1 degree of longitude...
- The cartography of India begins with early charts for navigation and constructional plans for buildings. Indian traditions influenced Tibetan and Islamic...
- 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...
- geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the earliest attempts...
- 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...
- The Cartographic Journal (first published June 1964) is an established peer-reviewed academic journal of record and comment that is published on behalf...