Definition of "chartography" []

• The art or practice of drawing maps or charts. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A little instruction in the elements of chartography -- a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map -- would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost; would have illumined the one dark alley in my school life."
• "A little instruction in the elements of chartography – a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map – would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost; would have illumined the one dark alley in my school life."
• "I had frequent opportunities to observe these Eskimo ideas of chartography."