Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice...
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The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been...
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Geography (section Quantitative cartography)
geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the earliest attempts...
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Cartography is an album by Arve Henriksen. On the album Cartography, Henriksen takes us into varied soundscapes that evoke streams of images. Together...
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The Cartographic Journal (first published June 1964) is an established peer-reviewed academic journal of record and comment that is published on behalf...
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Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents...
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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...
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Map (redirect from Physical map (cartography))
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...
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The cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since...
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The cartography of the region of Palestine, also known as cartography of the Holy Land and cartography of the Land of Israel, is the creation, editing...
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