The Cartography can be of 2 types:
1. General Cartography
2. Thematic Cartography
General Cartography is for creating maps for the general people which have variety of features like roads, streets, boundaries.
Thematic Cartography is based on the geographic themes and only oriented toward specific audiences. For example: Corn Production in a Country or State. Nowadays we have "Heap map" that also would come under this category
There is one more category which combines these above said 2 types they are called "Orienteering" Maps.
While designing the map based on the Cartography, everyone should consider all the aspects of the Cartography and proceed further. If a Cartographer does not considered all aspects then it would lead to failure of the Cartography.
There are naming Conventions are also currently following by Cartographers. They used the regional languages wherever applicable.
Map coloring also plays a major role in making maps. Using different colors/Hue will create a confusion on map readers. The Cartographer needs to use quantity symbols wherever required. The perfectly completed map should show the main directions like East, West, North, South with the arrow.
Nowadays, GPS ( Global Positioning System) would lay on the core of this Cartography, If the Cartography fails then it may lead to misdirection when using GPS.
This Traditional complicated Cartography was made easy due to some technological growth such as Aerial Photography, Satellite Images, remote sensing, which will provide clear definition and latitude/longitude positions of a particular object so that the accuracy of maps were increased.
The 14th century maps would only contains the 3 continents (Africa/Europe/Asia). The other continents were included later.
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