The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cartography:
Cartography (also called mapmaking) – study and practice of making and using maps or globes. Maps have traditionally been made using pen and paper, but the advent and spread of computers has revolutionized cartography.
Essence of cartography edit
Branches of cartography edit
Approaches in cartography edit
Cartography by region edit
Interdisciplinary fields involving cartography edit
Types of maps edit
- Cartogram
- City map
- Contour map
- Dymaxion map
- Electronic map
- Fantasy map
- Geologic map
- Nautical chart
- Pictorial maps
- Planform
- Plat
- Reversed map
- Road atlas
- Street map
- Thematic map
- Topographic map
- World map
Map projections edit
History of cartography edit
Cartography in politics edit
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Persons influential in cartography edit
Cartography scholars edit
- Cynthia Brewer—theorist of digital cartography's design
- Edward Tufte—general information design principles
See also edit
External links edit
- Mapping History - a learning resource from the British Library
- Geography and Maps, an Illustrated Guide, by the staff of the US Library of Congress.
- The history of cartography at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
- Antique Maps by Carl Moreland and David Bannister - complete text of the book, with information both on mapmaking and on mapmakers, including short biographies of many cartographers
- North American Cartographic Information Society
- Society of Cartographers supports the practising cartographer and encourages and maintains a high standard of cartographic illustration
- Concise Bibliography of the History of Cartography, Newberry Library
- UPCT : project aimed at creating a world map (a French map to begin) with voluntaries using GPS
- GITTA - A webbased open content eLearning course with basic and intermediate cartography lessons based on the eLML XML framework.