Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice...

The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been...

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...

The Cartographic Journal (first published June 1964) is an established peer-reviewed academic journal of record and comment that is published on behalf...

geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the earliest attempts...

The cartography of India begins with early charts for navigation and constructional plans for buildings. Indian traditions influenced Tibetan and Islamic...

Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents...

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...

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...

Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a...

cartography. Atlas Globe Map Map collection Mapping of the Earth Celestial cartography Planetary cartography Cartographic generalization Cartographic...

The earliest cartographic depictions of Europe are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe...

The British Cartographic Society (BCS) is an association of individuals and organisations dedicated to exploring and developing the world of maps. It is...

In geographic information systems, a geocell (or geo-cell) is a patch on the surface of the Earth that is 1 degree of latitude by 1 degree of longitude...

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...

Chinese cartography began in the 5th century BC during the Warring States period when cartographers started to make maps of the Earth's surface. Its scope...

In linguistics, Cartographic syntax, or simply Cartography, is a branch of Generative syntax. The basic assumption of Cartographic syntax is that syntactic...

representing individuals. The academic study of symbols is semiotics. In cartography, an organized collection of symbols forms a legend for a map. The word...

Cartography is an album by Arve Henriksen. On the album Cartography, Henriksen takes us into varied soundscapes that evoke streams of images. Together...

cartography requires exact and unchanging coordinates, the averaged[citation needed] locations of geographical poles are taken as fixed cartographic poles...

Cartographic propaganda is a map created with the goal of achieving a result similar to traditional propaganda. The map can be outright falsified, or created...

Celestial cartography, uranography, astrography or star cartography[citation needed] is the aspect of astronomy and branch of cartography concerned with...

A cartouche in cartography is a decorative emblem on a globe or map. Map cartouches may contain the title, the printer's address, date of publication...

Critical cartography is a set of mapping practices and methods of analysis grounded in critical theory, specifically the thesis that maps reflect and...

In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane...

Terrain cartography or relief mapping is the depiction of the shape of the surface of the Earth on a map, using one or more of several techniques that...

The Natural Area Code, or Universal Address, is a proprietary geocode system for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth, or a volume of space anywhere...

Planetary cartography, or cartography of extraterrestrial objects (CEO), is the cartography of solid objects outside of the Earth. Planetary maps can...

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) (French: Association Cartographique Internationale, ACI) is an organization formed of national member...

The National Cartography Center of Iran (NCCC, Persian: سازمان نقشه برداری کشور) is the main organization for cartography in Iran. It is administered and...