Plural of cartography; multiple instances or types of map-making, or the maps themselves.
From cartography (carto- + -graphy) in plural form. Cartography itself comes from Greek roots meaning 'map-writing' and emerged in English during the 16th century.
Different 'cartographies' reveal different truths—a political map, an economic map, and an environmental map of the same region all tell completely different stories about what matters most, which is why cartographers' choices about what to show shape how we think.
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