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In understanding basic maps, the field of cartography can be divided into two general categories: general cartography and thematic cartography. General cartography involves those maps that are constructed for a general audience and thus contain a variety of features. General maps exhibit many reference and location systems and often are ...
The earliest known cartogram was published in 1876 by French statistician and geographer Pierre Émile Levasseur, who created a series of maps that represented the countries of Europe as squares, sized according to a variable and arranged in their general geographical position (with separate maps scaled by area, population, religious adherents ...
Cartography or mapmaking is the study and practice of making maps or globes. Articles on specific maps are found in Category:Maps . The main article for this category is Cartography .
General-purpose maps provide many types of information on one map. Most atlas maps, wall maps, and road maps fall into this category. The following are some features that might be shown on general-purpose maps: bodies of water, roads, railway lines, parks, elevations, towns and cities, political boundaries, latitude and longitude, national and ...
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.
This category and its subcategories are for articles about, and images of, particular geographically based maps. For other types of maps, such as mathematical mappings, please use another category, such as Category:Technical drawing or Category:Diagrams.
Costing 350 guilders for a non-coloured and 450 guilders for a coloured version, the atlas was the most precious book of the 17th century. However, the Atlas Maior was also a turning point: after that time the role of Dutch cartography (and Netherlandish cartography in general) was finished. Janssonius died in 1664 while a great fire in 1672 ...
Generalization was probably the most thoroughly studied aspect of cartography from the 1970s to the 1990s. This is probably because it fit within both of the major two research trends of the era: cartographic communication (especially signal processing algorithms based on Information theory ), and the opportunities afforded by technological ...