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mapmaking - definition and meaning
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noun Cartography , the making of maps and charts .
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Typically the mapmaking is done by the governor and majority party in the state legislature, and when all are of the same party they can draw maps to big partisan advantage.
GOP Is Poised to Reap a Redistricting Bonus Peter A. Brown 2010
Across the USA, college students, citizen activists and political junkies are using similar software to break a mapmaking monopoly held for decades by state lawmakers.
Technology allows citizens to be part of redistricting process 2011
Across the USA, college students, citizen activists and political junkies are using similar software to break a mapmaking monopoly held for decades by state lawmakers.
Technology allows citizens to be part of redistricting process 2011
That's because of cognitive mapmaking , which is different from regular mapmaking.
Wray Herbert: Border Bias: When We Think State Lines Can Protect Against Disasters Wray Herbert 2010
That's because of cognitive mapmaking , which is different from regular mapmaking.
Wray Herbert: Border Bias: When We Think State Lines Can Protect Against Disasters Wray Herbert 2010
The trick is to forever remember that the map is not the territory—and that it is the territory, not mapmaking , that is of the greatest interest.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
Cook's three Pacific voyages were tours de force of exploration and mapmaking .
Man On a Quest Michael J. Ybarra 2011
Which is partly a testament to my mapmaking (non -) skill, but also partly the purpose of a map — to render something as vast as a landscape into a comprehensible, graspable, quantifiable representation.
The Map Thing « 2009
But the hallmark of the issue has to be Discovering America, about a young man whose attempts at mapmaking parallel between his romantic delusions.
Collect This Now! Rubber Blanket | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
As a result, a man named Ted, who owned a mapmaking company in a midtown Manhattan building, offered to lease me a vacant office where I could meet with people who wanted to experience the work.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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