What is Cartography?
[[File:Paspardo roccia Vite29 rilievo foto.jpg|thumb|250px|An early map: the city of [[Çatalhöyük]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=A Tale of two obsessed archeologists, one ancient city, and nagging doubts about whether science can ever hope to reveal the past |author=Robert Kunzig |journal=Discover Magazine |date=May 1999 |url=http://discovermagazine.com/1999/may/archeologist}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=A bird's eye view – of a leopard's spots. The Çatalhöyük 'map' and the development of cartographic representation in prehistory |author=Stephanie Meece |journal=Anatolian Studies |volume=56 |pages=1–16 |year=2006 |doi=10.1017/S0066154600000727 |jstor=20065543|s2cid=160549260 |url=http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/195777 }}</ref>]] [[File:World map 2004 CIA large 1.7m whitespace removed.jpg|250px|thumb|right|World map (2004, [[CIA World Factbook]])]] '''Cartography''' is making [[map]]s. It is part of [[geography]]. How people make maps is always changing. In the past, maps were drawn by hand, but today most printed maps are made using [[computer]]s and people usually see maps on [[computer screen]]s<nowiki/>. Someone who makes maps is called a cartographer. Making a map can be as simple as drawing a direction on a napkin, or as complicated as showing a whole country or world. Anyone can make a map, but cartographers spend their lives learning how to make better maps. For many centuries maps were usually carefully [[Drawing|drawn]] onto paper or [[parchment]]. Now they are made on a [[computer]] which makes them look neater with accurate images.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Robinson| first1 = Arthur H.| last2 = Morrison| first2 = Joel L.| last3 = Muehrcke| first3 = Phillip C.| last4 = Kimerling| first4 = A. Jon| last5 = Guptill| first5 = Stephen C.| title = Elements of Cartography| url = https://archive.org/details/elementsofcartog0000unse_t7x1| year = 1995| publisher = John Wiley & Sons Incorporated| isbn = 978-0-471-55579-7 }}</ref> Maps are of two main types: * General maps with a variety of features. *