mapmaker

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He was known as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, mapmaker, student of nature and doubtless a dozen other things we’ll learn in the course of this documentary.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

But the mapmaker is still deciding which things to show and which things not to show.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

As a marker of Mali’s enduring fame in the fourteenth century, the Majorcan mapmaker Abraham Cresques featured it in The Catalan Atlas in 1375.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Google started off as a kind of mapmaker for the internet, but through its phenomenal success gradually became the architect of the World Wide Web.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2023

The mapmaker genes activate and silence genes that make organs and structures.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee