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cartography

[kahr-tog-ruh-fee] / kɑrˈtɒg rə fi /


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Drew An-Pham is a graphics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, specializing in cartography and data visualization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Moreover, Latinos are using smartphones for digital cartography much as Black people mapped freedom during the eras of slavery and Jim Crow.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

The Seattle-based cartography company turns 50 this year, providing proof as clear as the compass rose that the hard-copy map is not going the way of the phone book.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Redrawing the map would require much more than fresh cartography.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

Perspective painting, ballistics and fortification, cartography and navigation prepared the ground for Galileo, Descartes and Newton.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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