cartography

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Drew An-Pham is a graphics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, specializing in cartography and data visualization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Throughout the book, elements from a talking fish to a possibly reincarnated dog exist alongside the bleak reality of a country so downtrodden and occupied that even its cartography isn’t in its own language.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

She holds a master’s degree in cartography and geographic information systems from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2023

The Seattle-based cartography company turns 50 this year, providing proof as clear as the compass rose that the hard-copy map is not going the way of the phone book.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023

And, naturally, the crucial topics for the new science corresponded neatly with the professional preoccupations of seventeenth-century mathematicians: astronomy/astrology, navigation, cartography, surveying, architecture, ballistics and hydraulics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton