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If this archive had not been in her house until the final years of her life, but in a collection that needed to downsize a few decades ago, her maps would have been the first to go to save space for the higher profile—undoubtedly male—mapmakers who will now appear obscure by comparison.
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Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
Particularly petty is that mapmakers studied the home addresses of Republican lawmakers and, out of spite, drew Issa out of his district.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
By moving more minorities out of a district and into another reliably Republican district, partisan mapmakers are able to reduce the likely Democratic voter share in that district and swing it to be a Republican-leaning district.
—David Patterson Soule, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2025
In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Geert De Cremer — known by his Latinized name as Gerardus Mercator — introduced a map projection that revolutionized navigation.
—Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
Particularly petty is that mapmakers studied the home addresses of Republican lawmakers and, out of spite, drew Issa out of his district.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
By moving more minorities out of a district and into another reliably Republican district, partisan mapmakers are able to reduce the likely Democratic voter share in that district and swing it to be a Republican-leaning district.
—David Patterson Soule, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2025
In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Geert De Cremer — known by his Latinized name as Gerardus Mercator — introduced a map projection that revolutionized navigation.
—Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Mapmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mapmaker. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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mapmaker
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map·mak·er
ˈmap-ˌmā-kər 
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