cartography

1. (uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.uncountableusually

2. (countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic.Examples: "In the early years of my psychedelic research, I sketched a vastly expanded cartography of the psyche that seems to meet this challenge."; "The Dalit feminist standpoint, and more specifically the national Federation of Dalit Women, provide in very clear terms a cartography of governance that forces an official reckoning of a new way of seeing."; "Since this cartography is not a representation of already existing spaces or cinematic forms but is rather oriented towards the new, it could be described as a cartography of the virtual; however, since Ruiz's work makes a point of departing from the normative rules of cinematic construction as a first principle, this book will outline Ruiz's cartography of images as a cartography of the impossible."countablefigurativelyusually