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cartographer

[ UK /kɑːtˈɒɡɹəfɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who makes maps

How To Use cartographer In A Sentence

  • The map was a cartographer 's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • Until now, GPS has been primarily the preserve of those who know what they're doing - the surveyors, navigators, geodesists, and cartographers.
  • The closest terms are cartogram (a map showing statistics geographically) - from the French carte and gramme; cartographer (one that makes maps), and cartography (the science or art of making maps) again referencing the french word carte card, map + graphie - more at CARD. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Papa announced at dinner a little while ago that a fellow cartographer of Scandinavia had written to him about his son. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
  • They came out of warp a scant light-week from Orundwiir, or alpha Arietis as the Federation stellar cartographers called it; a great blaze of a star, even at this distance, burning dazzlingly orange-golden in the long cold night. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
  • They're not perfect: sometimes we neglect end users' needs, or we lean too hard on whiz-bang technology, and, sure, many of us are first-time cartographers.
  • Two explanations are given of the origin of the myth of the Kinabalu Lake -- one is that in the district, where it was supposed to exist, extensive floods do take place in very wet seasons, giving it the appearance of a lake, and, I believe there are many similar instances in Dutch Borneo, where a tract of country liable to be heavily flooded has been dignified with the name of _Danau_, which is Malay for _lake_, so that the mistake of the European cartographers is a pardonable one. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
  • There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
  • The map was a cartographer's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
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