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
• That is not to say that mapmakers are wholly innocent bystanders in the process.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• The maps in the atlas come from artists, activists, academics, and other mapmakers.
  — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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 their size and position didn’t seem to matter to the mapmakers, Caragol explains.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• 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
• The decision belongs to the voters, not the mapmakers.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
• Critics said that indicated the mapmakers were aiming for a target based on race.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 23 May 2024
• 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
• But to others, a mapmaker on their grounds portends apocalypse; to name things is to destroy them, these people believe.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
• Some members of the commission argued that picking a mapmaker endorsed by only one side would be unfair.
  — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
• For decades, mapmakers have based district boundaries on each area's total population.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Mar. 2026
• Alina is a mapmaker for Ravka's First Army, who happens to be half Shu.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• Her novel has enough granular detail about Milwaukee to keep a mapmaker busy.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2022
• 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
• And yet, somehow, mapmakers kept drawing California as an island for over two hundred years.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Telescopes helped the astronauts learn The mapmakers weren't the only ones using the Flagstaff telescopes.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 9 July 2019
• 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
• Rand McNally was among the first mapmakers to incorporate the new system.
  — Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Sai has worked on her penmanship and blending in to regular society, and has been lucky to get a job helping the kingdom’s preeminent mapmaker.
  — Christina Barron, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• For decades, mapmakers have generally drawn the districts that state lawmakers represent based on the total number of people living in an area.
  — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
• 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