cartography

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Each year, she sits on the jury for a junior cartography competition organized in several French high schools.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Although not the oldest portolan in existence, it is “an important data point in understanding the evolution of European cartography of the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent waters,” Pflederer said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

She holds a master’s degree in cartography and geographic information systems from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2023

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

And, naturally, the crucial topics for the new science corresponded neatly with the professional preoccupations of seventeenth-century mathematicians: astronomy/astrology, navigation, cartography, surveying, architecture, ballistics and hydraulics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton