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If Ocarina of Time and its ilk are guided safaris, Breath of the Wild is more like cartography.—Julie Muncy, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2017 This was in the 1980s, when digital cartography was advancing rapidly and civilian GPS systems were on the horizon.—Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024 Netanyahu’s cartography, as Thomas L. Friedman noted in the Times, does not show a border between the river and the sea.—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 The original owner’s love of cartography influenced the design, so the home is organized around a long reflecting pool aligned due north.—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for cartography
Word History
Etymology
French cartographie, from carte card, map + -graphie -graphy — more at card entry 1
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