mapmaking
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈmæpˌmeɪkɪŋ/
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cartografía
- Green Maps' mission is to create a system that supports inclusive participation in sustainable community development worldwide, using mapmaking as its medium.
- mapmaking project
Examples
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During the workshop, participants will learn essential skills in mapmaking to create accurate geographic representations.
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Cook proved to be a capable sailor with a particular aptitude for surveying and mapmaking.
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In this series, mapmaking has become a fine art including elements of science and magic.
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This perspective makes the connection between science and mapmaking obvious.
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Ptolemy's profound understanding of the purpose of mapmaking was essentially lost for thirteen centuries.
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In the past, colonial regimes named, organized, constructed, and controlled space and place through the imperialistic practice of mapmaking.
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Ascher's next stop is the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean, where she explores the mapmaking genius of its seafaring people.
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The disastrous mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy must be a learning experience for the United States, and not just because it has exposed the flaws in our military mapmaking.
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Those drawing conventions are descended, as we might expect, from related sources—especially early nineteenth-century mapmaking and engineering drawing.
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Our team of graduate students conducted internal training workshops in May and June to train incoming interns on mapmaking using Global Mapper and the LL-MAP uploader, and our team has been pumping out fascinating language maps all summer.
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Synonyms
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3.3
Making pictures that show land and roads to help find places
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6.6
The making of maps and charts to show places and features
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mapmaking is simply map + making, meaning the skill of creating maps. The simple part map comes from an old word mappa that meant 'cloth', because people long ago drew maps on cloth, so picture someone drawing a landscape on a cloth to remember what making a map is.