Cartography

(noun)

The study and practice of making maps.

Related Terms

Examples of Cartography in the following topics:

  • Technological Advancements under the Song

    • Geometry was essential to surveying and cartography.

  • Mapping the Earth

    • In cartography, any place or object can also be referenced by its absolute location: its coordinates in latitude and longitude.

  • Introduction to Nation-States

    • Some scholars have advanced the hypothesis that the nation state was an inadvertent byproduct of 15th-century intellectual discoveries in political economy, capitalism, mercantilism, political geography, and geography combined together with cartography and advances in map-making technologies.