A person who creates, designs, or draws maps, either by hand or using modern technology.
From carto- (Greek kartos, map) + -grapher (Greek graphein, to write or draw). The term has been used since the 1600s to describe professional map-makers.
Before GPS and satellites, cartographers were humanity's eyes on the world—explorers, surveyors, and map-makers who literally drew the maps that showed us where we were, and their mistakes and discoveries shaped history, exploration routes, and entire conflicts.
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