mapmaker

Example Sentences

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Lawrence, I’d soon learn, had been a mapmaker, actor and Hollywood executive.

From Los Angeles Times

The mapmaker was something of a Renaissance man — relatives said he pursued photography, worked as a chauffeur and served as an executive with the Screen Extras Guild, then a union for background actors.

From Los Angeles Times

A mapmaker in the Arctic Circle produces lush renderings of Scandinavia populated only by place names in the Sami language, an homage to a time before nation-states when nomadic communities could follow their reindeer herds over the frozen land and feel in possession of their world.

From Washington Post

Google started off as a kind of mapmaker for the internet, but through its phenomenal success gradually became the architect of the World Wide Web.

From Slate

In the panel’s opinion on Friday, the three judges noted that the mapmaker hired by the Legislature had testified that he had tried to make as few changes as possible in drawing maps for the state’s other six House seats.

From New York Times