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Up until the 18th century, maps were often decorated with fanciful beasts and monsters, at the expense of accurate details about places. French mapmakers of the 1700s and 1800s encouraged the use of more scientific methods in the art they called cartographie. The French word cartographie (the science of making maps), from which we get our English word cartography, was created from carte, meaning "map," and -graphie, meaning "representation by." Around the same time we adopted cartography in the mid-19th century, we also created our word for a mapmaker, cartographer.
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Christine Leuenberger, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2025
Melissa Moser, a cartographer at Adventure Cycling who lives in Missoula, Mont., has taken her 6-year-old daughter on several multiday bike tours.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
These are some of the questions the cartographers have been asking one another.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
See beautiful maps on eclipse cartographer Michael Zeiler's GreatAmericanEclipse.com and interactive Google Maps on Xavier Jubier's eclipse website.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Cartographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cartographer. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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