Outline of cartography

Overview of and topical guide to cartography

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

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* Atlas
* Globe
* Map
* Map collection
* Mapping of the Earth

## Branches of cartography

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* Celestial cartography
* Planetary cartography

### Approaches in cartography

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* Cartographic generalization
* Cartographic labeling
* Critical cartography
* Terrain cartography

### Interdisciplinary fields involving cartography

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* Geodesy
* Geomatics
* Topography

## Cartography by region

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* Cartography of Africa
* Cartography of Asia
* Cartography of China
* Cartography of India
* Cartography of Israel
* Cartography of Palestine
* Cartography of Europe
* Cartography of France
* Cartography of Switzerland
* Cartography of Ukraine
* Cartography of Latin America
* Cartography of North America
* Cartography of Jamaica
* Cartography of the United States
* Cartography of Oceania
* Cartography of New Zealand

## Types of maps

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* 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

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Map projection

* List of map projections
* Orthographic projection in cartography

## History of cartography

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History of cartography

* Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
* History of geography
* Chinese geography
* List of Graeco-Roman geographers
* Geography and cartography in medieval Islam
* Majorcan cartographic school

## Cartography in politics

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* Cartographic aggression
* Cartographic censorship
* Cartographic propaganda

## Cartography-related organizations

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* National mapping agency
* British Cartographic Society
* Cartography and Geographic Information Society
* International Cartographic Association
* National Cartographic Center of Iran
* North American Cartographic Information Society

## Persons influential in cartography

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* List of cartographers

### Cartography scholars

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* Cynthia Brewer—theorist of digital cartography's design
* Edward Tufte—general information design principles

## See also

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* Global Positioning System
* Navigation
* Maps

## External links

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Cartography at Wikipedia's sister projects

* Definitions from Wiktionary
* Media from Commons
* News from Wikinews
* Quotations from Wikiquote
* Texts from Wikisource
* Textbooks from Wikibooks
* Resources from Wikiversity

* 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.

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