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Cartography, or map-making, has a long history. From cave paintings to ancient Greek explorations, maps have always been used as a vital tool to help us visualize and navigate our way through the world. โCartography was not born full-fledged as a science or even an art,โ wrote map historian Lloyd Brown in 1949. โIt evolved slowly and painfully from obscure origins.