Concept information
Preferred term
cartography
Definition
- Cartography can be concisely and classically defined as the art, science, and technology of making maps. The popular associations of the word with techniques of map making are a reflection of its lexical routes in cart (French for map) and graffiti (Greek for writing). [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Cartography]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- altitude
- argumentation maps
- cadastres
- cartograms
- choropleth maps
- color in map design
- coordinate geometry
- coordinate systems
- coordinate transformation
- countermapping
- dasymetric maps
- data classification schemes
- datums
- dot density maps
- earth's coordinate grid
- ecological mapping
- electronic atlases
- environmental mapping
- equator
- flow maps
- gazetteers
- geodesy
- geolibraries
- geometric correction
- geometric measures
- indigenous cartographies
- isopleth maps
- land use and land cover mapping
- latitude
- longitude
- map algebra
- map animation
- map design
- map evaluation and testing
- map generalization
- map projections
- map visualization
- multimedia mapping
- multivariate mapping
- North and South Poles
- participatory mapping
- portolan charts
- resource mapping
- self-organizing maps
- surveying
- trap streets
- typography in map design
- virtual globes
- Voronoi diagrams
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cartography
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