The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been...

Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice...

History of cartography), and one who makes maps is called a cartographer. Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of...

The cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since...

Medieval Islamic geography and cartography refer to the study of geography and cartography in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age (variously...

earliest cartographic depictions of Africa are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity, Africa (also Libya) was assumed to cover the quarter of the...

"Ptolemaic tradition" of geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the...

The History of Cartography Project is a publishing project in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was founded by David...

Measure: Chinese Maps between Observation and Text". In Harley, J.B.; Woodward, David (eds.). The History of Cartography. University of Chicago Press....

evidence for recognizable practices of geography, such as cartography, prior to the use of the term. The known world of Ancient Egypt saw the Nile as the...