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From the dictionary of The International Cartographic Association (1973)::

Cartography is the

The in above definitions used terms science and technology advise the widely spread dichotomy of cartography into a theoretical and a practical part.

Following this classification the theoretical cartography gets involved with

The practical or applied cartography is mainly involved in the production and is therefore at first map technology. Here some headwords

If there is a field of knowledge to be characterised, of course, the just mentioned dichotomy into theory and practice is helpful to straighten out the large complexity in its contents, however insufficient to represent the many mutual interrelations between the parts of disciplines. -

You find further, more detailed and more extensive descriptions of the facets of cartography e.g. in [2] (see under literature).

  
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