Definition of "cartography" [car•tog•ra•phy]

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

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