From Greek astron "star" and lambanein "to take". It permits astral navigation and mapmaking.
A person who follows a career of mapmaking is called a cartographer. Cartographers create, analyze, and update maps to help people navigate and understand geographical information.
The five themes of geography focus on mapmaking as an essential tool for understanding location, place, human-environment interactions, movement, and regions. In contrast, subfields of geography might focus on mapmaking as a method to study specialized topics such as political geography, urban geography, or physical geography in more detail.
The five themes of geography focus on mapmaking as an while the subfields focus on mapmaking as a tool that can be applied to all themes; special field and set of skills.
mapmaking
Technology helped the field of geography to expand beyond mapmaking.
Technology spurred the expansion into other fields outside of mapmaking.
A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
Cartography.
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They have allowed more accuracy in mapmaking. Radar is used more often than Aeral photography
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