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Color photography, cartography, and comprehensive articles contributed to the magazine’s expansion in the 1950s, reflecting growing public interest in travel coverage.—Suzanne Dundas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 Ryan Coogler’s Sinners couldn’t exist without Wilson’s cartography.—Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2026 This concept truck from Jeep was designed with trail maintenance, cartography and cleanup in mind.—Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026 The central room features a world map made of red glass balls, ignoring political borders and using the Gall-Peters rectangular, equal-area map projection to challenge traditional power dynamics in cartography.—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cartography
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Etymology
French cartographie, from carte card, map + -graphie -graphy — more at card entry 1