NOUN | cartography | - | |
SYNO | cartography | mapmaking |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Planetary cartography, or cartography of extraterrestrial objects (CEO), is the cartography of solid objects outside of the Earth.
- One of the main tools used by imperialists was cartography.
- was a Dutch cartographer and a notable figure of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography, known for his pioneering contributions on the subject of nautical cartography.
- He was author of the first cartography textbook in English, "General cartography" (1938).
- Günter Gerhard Schilder (Vienna, born February 18, 1942), is a Dutch leading historian of cartography and for many years held the world's only chair in the history of cartography at the Utrecht University from 1981 to 2004.
- More than on cartography itself, he left his mark on the practice of the history of cartography. He has played an exemplary role in this worldwide.
- Scientific researches of Alexander Aslanikashvili clarified the cardinal problems of theory of cartography and methodological issues of mapping.
- James Richard Akerman (born October 1956) is an American geographer, director of the Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography.
- The term is used in cartography and historical cartography to describe a type of map, namely the symbolic, schematic world maps made in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
- It also hosts the "AutoCarto" conference series, previously known as "International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography" (subject also known as automated cartography, hence the name).
- During the 2015-2017 phase of the programme, Concordis used cartography to map out land in dispute.
- Cartography or "map-making" is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon a flat surface (see History of cartography), and one who makes maps is called a cartographer.
- The National Cartography Center of Iran (NCCC, [...]) is the main organization for cartography in Iran.
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