mapmaker

noun map·mak·er \ ˈmap-ˌmā-kər \

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Definition of mapmaker

: cartographer

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mapmaking

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Recent Examples of mapmaker from the Web

The court has explained that vote dilution occurs when mapmakers limit a minority group’s ability to translate its voting strength into voting power, drawing district lines to ensure that white voters can select its preferred candidate.

— anne branigin, The Root, "Supreme Court Punts on Partisan Gerrymandering as Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas Set Sights on Dismantling Voting Rights Act," 25 June 2018
At a federal gerrymandering trial in December, mapmakers said under oath that Brady reached out to provide input during the mapmaking process.

— jonathan lai, Philly.com, "Pa. gerrymandering's surprise co-conspirators: Democrats," 29 Apr. 2018
Joukhadar’s debut novel is the story of two girls who lived 800 years apart: a modern-day Syrian refugee and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a mapmaker, both driven by circumstance into exile and a journey across the Middle East.

— carole goldberg, courant.com, "Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, Blanche McCrary Boyd To Give Book Talks," 2 May 2018
Also contacted were Erik Arneson, a Republican mapmaker and Senate staffer at the time, and state Rep. Frank Dermody, the leader of the House Democrats, who did not vote for the map but also did not stand in the way of his members doing so.

— jonathan lai, Philly.com, "Did your Democratic State Rep. vote for Pa.'s gerrymandered congressional map?," 30 Apr. 2018
In a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one, Maryland’s Democratic mapmakers have turned an eight-member House delegation that was split evenly between the parties in 2000 into one that now has seven Democrats and one Republican.

— john fritze, baltimoresun.com, "Supreme Court to hear arguments in Maryland 'gerrymandering' case," 28 Mar. 2018
And yet, somehow, mapmakers kept drawing California as an island for over two hundred years.

— ken jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, "For Centuries, Europeans Thought California Was an Island," 19 Mar. 2018
But the ones accusing mapmakers of partisan gerrymandering had limited success previously.

— jonathan lai, Philly.com, "Pennsylvania's congressional map fight reveals a deeper national redistricting battle," 8 Mar. 2018
A few Democrats spoke against the measure for reasons including failing to enshrine voting rights in the Ohio Constitution and allowing mapmakers to divide communities along racial and ethnic lines.

— jackie borchardt, cleveland.com, "Congressional redistricting plan passes Ohio House, will appear on May ballot," 6 Feb. 2018

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