Cartography

Cartography ; from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; together with γράφειν graphein, "write" is a explore & practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on a premise that reality or an imagined reality can be modeled in ways thatspatial information effectively.

The necessary objectives of traditional cartography are to:

Modern cartography constitutes numerous theoretical and practical foundations of geographic information systems GIS and geographic information science GISc.

Map types

In apprehension basic maps, the field of cartography can be dual-lane up into two general categories: general cartography and thematic cartography. General cartography involves those maps that are constructed for a general audience and thus contain a kind of features. General maps exhibit many address and location systems and often are produced in a series. For example, the 1:24,000 scale topographic maps of the Ordnance Survey" maps of the entire UK and with a range of correlated larger- and smaller-scale maps of great detail. many private mapping companis form also made thematic map series.