cartography

English

Etymology

From French cartographie, from carte (“map”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “map”)) + -graphie (“-graphy”) (, from γράφω (gráphō, “write”)).

Pronunciation

(General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɐː(ɹ)ˈtɔɡɹəfɪi̯/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /kɐɹˈtɒɡɹəfi/
(General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kɐː(ɹ)ˈtɔɡɹɘfɪi̯/
(UK) IPA^(key): /kɑːˈtɒɡɹəfi/
(US) IPA^(key): /kɑɹˈtɑɡɹəfi/

Noun

cartography (usually uncountable, plural cartographies)

(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]
(countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic. [from 20th c.]
- 2000, Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, →ISBN:
  In the early years of my psychedelic research, I sketched a vastly expanded cartography of the psyche that seems to meet this challenge.
- 2006, Nira Yuval-Davis, ‎Kalpana Kannabiran, ‎& Ulrike Vieten, The Situated Politics of Belonging, →ISBN, page 69:
  The Dalit feminist standpoint, and more specifically the national Federation of Dalit Women, provide in very clear terms a cartography of governance that forces an official reckoning of a new way of seeing.
- 2013, Michael Goddard, The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies, →ISBN, page 1:
  Since this cartography is not a representation of already existing spaces or cinematic forms but is rather oriented towards the new, it could be described as a cartography of the virtual; however, since Ruiz's work makes a point of departing from the normative rules of cinematic construction as a first principle, this book will outline Ruiz's cartography of images as a cartography of the impossible.
- 2014, Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer & ‎Nasheli Jimenez Del Val, Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age, →ISBN, page xvi:
  In short, the volume aims to provide the reader with the coordinates for current debates in global art and to develop a cartography of the various conceptual and methodological intersections that global art studies is addressing today.

Synonyms

cartology

Derived terms

cartographer
cartographic, cartographical

Translations

creation of charts and maps

Arabic: عِلْم اَلْخَرَائِط‎ m (ʿilm al-ḵarāʾiṭ)
Catalan: cartografia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地圖學 (zh), 地图学 (zh) (dìtúxué), 製圖學, 制图学 (zhìtúxué)
Czech: kartografie (cs) f
Esperanto: kartografio
Finnish: kartografia (fi), karttaoppi (fi)
French: cartographie (fr) f
Galician: cartografía (gl) f
German: Kartographie (de) f, Kartografie (de) f
Hebrew: קרטוגרפיה‎ (he) f (qart'ografia)
Hungarian: térképészet (hu)
Ido: kartografio (io)
Italian: cartografia (it) f

Japanese: 地図学 (ちずがく, chizugaku)
Korean: 지도학 (jidohak)
Latvian: kartogrāfija f
Macedonian: картографија f (kartográfija)
Norwegian: kartografi (no) m
Polish: kartografia (pl) f
Portuguese: cartografia (pt) f
Romanian: cartografie (ro), cartografiere (ro) f
Russian: картогра́фия (ru) f (kartográfija)
Spanish: cartografía (es) f
Swedish: kartografi (sv) c
Turkish: haritacılık (tr), kartografi (tr)
Vietnamese: bản đồ học

illustrative discussion of a topic

Chinese:
Mandarin: 討論 (zh), 讨论 (zh) (tǎolùn), 論述 (zh), 论述 (zh) (lùnshù), 論題 (zh), 论题 (zh) (lùntí), 調查 (zh), 调查 (zh) (diàochá)

Finnish: kartoitus (fi)
Russian: please add this translation if you can