Recent Examples on the WebAn archival find Produced by the New York cartography firm of F. & R. Lockwood, the Travelers’ Tour was an imitation of earlier European geography games, a genre of educational game.—Matthew Wynn Sivils, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2024 Over the past few years, Smith and his colleagues have built upon antigenic cartography by adding a third dimension to their maps.—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2022 With the founding of Israel in 1947 and the Arab-Israeli war the next year, Ms. Eshel entered the Israeli Air Force and rose to become a lieutenant of cartography.—Alex Traub, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023 These ones from Xplorer Maps have been created through a partnership with the National Park Service and each of the park’s official nonprofit partners in an effort to ensure the cartography is geographically accurate and culturally relevant.—Joni Sweet, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023 Each star’s composition records its birthplace, age, and natal ingredients, so studying starlight enables a form of galactic cartography—as well as genealogy.—WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023 Each star’s composition records its birthplace, age and natal ingredients, so studying starlight enables a form of galactic cartography — as well as genealogy.—Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023 Well, sort of: A grimly cheerful piece of cartography produced in 1940 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company shows various awful things that can happen to a person.—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023 During that time, the troops learn everything from marksmanship and cartography to radios and engineering.—Siobhán O'Grady and Kostiantyn Khudov, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
French cartographie, from carte card, map + -graphie -graphy — more at card entry 1
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