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mapmaking en · NOUN

Etymology

From map + making.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
   • The commissioners cited public opposition — 83% of citizen emails were opposed to the change — and the hassle that renaming would cause for the road’s residents and businesses. But they also could have noted the new name hasn’t really stuck in popular usage, despite the president’s claimed mapmaking powers. 2025 October 27, Joshua Benton, “Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets”, in NiemanLab, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2025:

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