Mapping in Cartography

Lapaine, Miljenko

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-70-2019

Articles | Volume 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-70-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-70-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2

10 Jul 2019

| 10 Jul 2019

Mapping in Cartography

Miljenko Lapaine

Keywords: Mapping, Map, Cartography

Abstract. The main goals of this paper are to make readers aware that the term mapping can have many different meanings and to find out the most appropriate definition of mapping in the cartographic context. Moreover, definitions of a map and cartography are derived as natural consequences.