cartographer

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We could soon be in legal terra incognita, they said — like the days when medieval cartographers would write “Here Be Dragons” along the unexplored edges of world maps.

From New York Times

In the 1600s, an anonymous Dutch cartographer named the land now known as New Zealand for Zeeland, a western province of the Netherlands.

From New York Times

Their fossils were reported during surveys in the 1870s and 1880s, when geologists joined cartographers and soldiers to chart lands then recently seized from Native Americans.

From Scientific American

Since the days of paper maps and desktop globes, countries and cartographers have disagreed about sovereignty and where borders fall.

From Los Angeles Times

But lately, for a rarefied group of the agency’s nearly three dozen cartographers, the need for revisions has intensified.

From New York Times