Outline of cartography
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cartography:
Cartography - study and practice of making and using maps or globes. Maps have traditionally been made using pen and paper, but the advent and spread of computers has revolutionized cartography.
Essence of cartography
Branches of cartography
Approaches in cartography
Interdisciplinary fields involving cartography
Cartography by region
- Cartography of Africa
- Cartography of Asia
- * Cartography of China
- * Cartography of India
- * Cartography of Israel
- * Cartography of Palestine
- Cartography of Europe
- * Cartography of France
- * Cartography of Switzerland
- * Cartography of Ukraine
- Cartography of Latin America
- Cartography of North America
- * Cartography of Jamaica
- * Cartography of the United States
- Cartography of Oceania
- * Cartography of New Zealand
Types of maps
- Cartogram
- City map
- Contour map
- Dymaxion map
- Electronic map
- Fantasy map
- Geological map
- Nautical chart
- Pictorial maps
- Plan
- Plat
- Reversed map
- Road atlas
- Street map
- Thematic map
- Topographic map
- World map
Map projections
Map projectionHistory of cartography
History of cartography- Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
- History of geography
- * Chinese geography
- * List of Graeco-Roman geographers
- * Geography and cartography in medieval Islam
- Majorcan cartographic school
Cartography in politics
Cartography-related organizations
- National mapping agency
- British Cartographic Society
- Cartography and Geographic Information Society
- International Cartographic Association
- National Cartographic Center of Iran
- North American Cartographic Information Society
Persons influential in cartography
Cartography scholars
- Cynthia Brewer—theorist of digital cartography's design
- Edward Tufte—general information design principles