Question

Nature & scope of cartography

Answer 1

Cartography is the science, art and technology of making, using and studying maps. Cartography produces maps for the users and users benefit from the map to obtain required information. Nowadays, this relationship became mare important because maps are started to be published as not paper maps but also a digital map. Mobile mapping technologies and methods which aim to design maps for mobiles devices ( Pocket PC, Mobile Phones, in-vehicle computers and etc ) introduced mobiles cartography or small display cartography as a new interest of cartography.