How to Use mapmaker in a Sentence

mapmaker

noun

• By then, the open polar sea was more than just a choice made by mapmakers.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
• The mapmakers would develop the film in the field and update the maps with new targets.
  — National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017
• The mapmaker needs to make a decision about the scale of the map - how much detail to include and how much to ignore.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• More than 240 years ago, the mapmaker George Gauld put pen to paper and drew the Florida Keys.
  — Veronique Greenwood, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• Like many mapmakers of the era, Monte had a tendency to fill in the empty spaces on his map.
  — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
• Washington state’s mapmakers had been working for almost a year to draw the lines that would shape the state’s elections for the next decade.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
• Instead of relying on the whim of the mapmaker, Dr. Feigenbaum used physics.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 July 2019
• The maps in the atlas come from artists, activists, academics, and other mapmakers.
  — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2017
• But their size and position didn’t seem to matter to the mapmakers, Caragol explains.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• That is not to say that mapmakers are wholly innocent bystanders in the process.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• Alina is a mapmaker for Ravka's First Army, who happens to be half Shu.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• Telescopes helped the astronauts learn The mapmakers weren't the only ones using the Flagstaff telescopes.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 9 July 2019
• Early mapmakers used a female version of his name to designate a section of the new world on their maps.
  — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
• But instead of reflecting a change in the world, the Fifth Ocean is a rare example of a mapmaker making an effort to alter the planet.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 23 June 2021
• The North Carolina House’s chief mapmaker this decade has called on the plaintiffs in state court to withdraw their case because of Thursday’s ruling.
  — Gary D. Robertson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
• When the mapmaker is sent on a perilous expedition to uncharted seas, Sai goes along, and the journey proves to be life-changing in many ways.
  — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• João Gilberto, the bossa nova mapmaker who died on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro at 88, spent the greatest years of his musical life right there, singing softly to the edge.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
• That next round of districts could have an even more partisan character, as mapmakers have less to fear from the federal courts.
  — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• While a new map in Pennsylvania helped, the real lesson is that even the savviest mapmakers cannot always see the future, and most states draw new districts just once a decade.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 June 2019
• Rand McNally was among the first mapmakers to incorporate the new system.
  — Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2020
• Child went on to serve in the diplomatic service, meet and marry artist-turned-mapmaker Paul Child, discover a love of cooking and become the first bona fide star of public television.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Some members of the commission argued that picking a mapmaker endorsed by only one side would be unfair.
  — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
• The Indian digital mapmaker has set aside around $53 million of stock for anchor investors, and has received bids for more than 30 times that amount, according to a Bloomberg source.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2021
• In some states, mapmakers have gotten creative by using narrow strips of roads or rivers to connect otherwise distinct parts of a district.
  — David A. Lieb and Scott Bauer, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2023
• In Cartographers, players take on the role of mapmakers marking down an uncharted land's features for their queen.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2019
• All of the mapmakers volunteered their time to make the atlas, and Guerrilla Cartography has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its printing.
  — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2017
• Mapmaker, mapmaker draw me a map: The redistricting process isn’t over yet, with lawsuits filed in 14 states challenging the congressional lines, per the New York Times.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• Now a digital mapmaker, father and husband with a fondness for mountain biking, Leigh recalls that his hopes four decades ago had a lot to do with the urine strips that were used to track blood sugar levels back then.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022
• In the absence of habitation, the mapmaker had turned to topographical features to fill up the empty cartographic space.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Having seized the role of mapmaker, Democratic lawmakers were left with a choice: whether to tinker with the panel’s proposals, or aggressively redraw the map to their own advantage and risk increasing the odds a court might reject their changes.
  — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024