"cartography" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the practice of making maps. For example, "Mr. Smith's career as a cartographer spanned more than forty years."
Organisations such as SPARC conducted surveys to come up with a cartography of urban poverty – how many people lived in slums, on pavements, by the railway tracks, how long they'd been living there, what basic amenities they had or lacked – that would be the first step towards rehabilitation.
Jerry Brotton, historian of cartography and the author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps, however, warns against such notions.
At the heart of this is the rise of Google Maps, which has come to dominate cartography today, both in terms of resources and popularity.
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Two strong tides, one of prudery and the other of political correctness, are eroding a verbal landscape created by centuries of cartography and local usage.
Cylinder head Sea wolves A dispatch from the front Cancer cartography Reprints Related topics Science Biology Genetics Genomics Science and technologyOne, led by Rameen Beroukhim of the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, looked at cancers with an unusual number of copies of certain sections of their DNA.
But it is the cartography that reaches its full potential in digital form: zoom in tightly on Charles Booth's famous 1889 map of poverty zones, or a Victorian taxonomy of pubs called "The Modern Plague of London".
Cylinder head Sea wolves A dispatch from the front Cancer cartography ReprintsAfrica's men (and Africa is still the seat of the epidemic, with 70% of cases) have also responded enthusiastically to the discovery that circumcision vastly reduces the risk of infection.
But even with new technology, some of the old constraints of cartography remain.Dig deeper: An infographic on disputed borders (Feb 2012) Crimea in the Russian imagination (March 2014) How mapmakers are competing for your smartphone (Oct 2012).
For that, a second type of genetic cartography is better—so-called linkage mapping.Linkage mapping has been somewhat neglected in recent years.
Eritrea's claim depends on cartography: almost every map issued since colonial times shows Zalambessa, and many other areas now claimed by Ethiopia, in Eritrean territory.
