Definition of cartographer
: one that makes maps
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Recent Examples of cartographer from the Web
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That's when French engineer and cartographer Adrien de Pauger came to town, tasked with drawing up plans to help New Orleans become an orderly, civilized city.
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It is run by cartographers and friends who also run a cafe, library and gallery on the first floor.
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Jane Pritchard, curator of dance for London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, described him as a cartographer of 19th-century ballet.
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Jane Pritchard, curator of dance for London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, described him as a cartographer of 19th-century ballet.
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In this new version, cartographer Kenneth Field wanted to include all votes — not just those of the victor in each area.
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As explained in this video from RealLifeLore, the Coastline Paradox has been vexing researchers and cartographers since its discovery by mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson in 1951.
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When Alessandro Masnaghetti, who’s the best cartographer of vineyards, wants to work with us, that says something.
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Monte’s map is circular, with the North Pole at the center and lines of longitude radiating outward from there—what modern cartographers call a polar azimuthal projection, a very unusual choice for his time.
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Did You Know?
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."
First Known Use of cartographer
circa 1847
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Definition of cartographer for English Language Learners
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: a person who makes maps
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