| 单词 | cartography |
| 释义 | cartography (once / 17936 pages) n Have you ever tried to draw a map of your neighborhood? If you’re drawing your map to scale, taking into account every little hill and valley, you can appreciate the challenge of cartography, the science of making maps. You may think cartography has gone the way of the dodo bird, now that we’ve got Google maps and GPS devices. You don’t have to draw maps by hand anymore, but you still need cartography skills to turn digital representations into something people can use with ease. While the word cartography dates only from the mid-19th century, maps were around for a long, long time before that. Cartography comes from the French carte, “map,” and -graphie, “writing.” WORD FAMILYcartography: cartographer, cartographical+/cartographer: cartographers USAGE EXAMPLESToday’s cartography is more accurate than the fanciful renderings of the Red Planet made before modern telescopes. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) Finding one’s way around is essential , but our understanding of cities does not always correlate to the descriptions offered by plans and cartography. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) From the first map of Mars in 1831 to a new gravity map released in March, cartography has shaped how we understand the red planet. National Geographic(Oct 19, 2016) n the making of maps and charts Syn|Hyper mapmaking devising, fashioning, making the act that results in something coming to be |
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