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    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...
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  • history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been one of the...
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    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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    World's Measure: Chinese Maps between Observation and Text". In Harley, J.B.; Woodward, David (eds.). The History of Cartography. University of Chicago Press...
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    popularise the concept of the atlas as a collection of maps. Cartography or map-making is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon...
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  • The cartography of India begins with early charts for navigation and constructional plans for buildings. Indian traditions influenced Tibetan and Islamic...
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  • The International Cartographic Association (ICA) (French: Association Cartographique Internationale, ACI) is an organization formed of national member organizations...
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  • regions such as China, Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. Various Islamic scholars contributed to the development of geography and cartography, with the most...
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    history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity...
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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 Asia can refer to the representation of Asia on a map, or to depictions of the world by cartographers from Asia. Depictions of portions...
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  • earliest cartographic depictions of Europe are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe...
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  • 'Chinese internet is getting inundated with antisemitism following the Israel-Hamas war'. Cartography of Jerusalem Cartography of Palestine Survey of Israel...
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    indicating the rule used for determining the length of lines. History of Chinese cartography Cartography of China Mao Kun map Batchelor, "The Selden Map Rediscovered...
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    earliest cartographic depictions of Africa are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity, Africa (also Libya) was assumed to cover the quarter of the...
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    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...
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    Ptolemy's world map (category Historic maps of the world)
    mathematical treatment of cartography. Ptolemy's work probably originally came with maps, but none have been discovered. Instead, the present form of the map was...
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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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  • earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. It has been referred to as the Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography, "because of its rarity...
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    languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively...
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    The cartography of Ukraine involves the history of surveying and the construction of maps of Ukraine. Maps of Ukraine have been produced since the late...
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  • The cartography of Switzerland is the history of surveying and creation of maps of Switzerland. Switzerland has had its current boundaries since 1815,...
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  • other symbols instead of Manchu alphabet. For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs...
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  • of map projections Orthographic projection in cartography History of cartography Cartographic expeditions to Greenland History of geography Chinese geography...
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  • Cartographic propaganda is a map created with the goal of achieving a result similar to traditional propaganda. The map can be outright falsified, or...
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    The Chinese Empire, also known as Imperial China, Empire of China, Celestial Empire, or simply China, was an imperial realm that spanned much of East,...
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    "Ptolemaic tradition" of geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the...
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    Mao Kun map (category Maps of China)
    though it was never said onscreen. History of Chinese cartography Cartography of China Chinese exploration Chinese geography Da Ming Hun Yi Tu, c. late 14th...
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  • Cartographic censorship is the deliberate modification of publicly available maps in order to disguise, remove, or obfuscate potentially strategic locations...
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  • BC) Cartography of Europe Carta Pisana (13th century) Corbitis Atlas (late 14th century collection of portolan charts) Early Chinese cartography Da Ming...
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