mapmaker

noun

map·mak·er ˈmap-ˌmā-kər

: cartographer

mapmaking

ˈmap-ˌmā-kiŋ

noun

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The 25-year-old West Point graduate was a noncombatant, attached to Harney’s expedition as a mapmaker and topographer. —

Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024 Imagine turning your smartphone into a noise pollution detector, your car into a mapmaker, or your laptop into a Hollywood-grade rendering machine—all while earning crypto in your sleep. —

Sandy Carter, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 Mountain summits, von Hardenberg notes, were of less interest to mapmakers than geographical features such as caves and passes, which were more relevant to people’s everyday lives. —

Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 Under Iowa law, mapmakers cannot consider where sitting lawmakers live or political data like how many Republicans are in an area. —

Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mapmaker