In this sense, Cartography, which is the art, science and art of drawing maps, globes, scale models, etc., through their knowledge gathered over centuries of human history, enables human beings to detail analysis of the reality of which they are part. Thus, it is possible to construct an economic map from the knowledge of mathe- matics and economics or the development of a vegetation map based on the knowledge of biology and so on, emphasizing these elaborations techniques of thematic cartography. However, despite the computational development is important to remind that even if one uses the printed maps and globes in all school subjects and not only in geography, but also in biology, history, mathematics, etc., because all the facts and objects originate and are in any place of our planet where the inseparability of the categories of time and space occurs (since every event occurs in a place). Over the last decades this representation became more “fast” and common due to, mainly, the advancement of information technology that put on computer screens information of objects and phenomena that were pre- viously only shown on one sheet of paper, in other words, on a printed map. For example, one can mention the invention of equipment that helps us in our location as the compass, the as- trolabe, the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other instruments that helped at some point or still facilitate the location of objects and the representation of the terrestrial surface. Throughout the years, techniques and tools were aggregated to these attempts to read and understand the geographic space, improving the readings on the places of planet Earth. Since ancient times man has always tried to represent/map the space in which he lived, either as an artistic form or in search to represent living places or for food. This text is a contribution to the discussion of advances in cartography including errors and absence of maps, including a brief discussion of the characteris- tics of cartographic language nowadays and the search for perfection in cartography.Ĭartography, Cartographic Evolution, Geographic Space, Spatial Representations, Perfect Map The history, the concepts and categories of cartography cannot be neglected in using this type of tool since the use of elements that make a cartographic product, as an example: map, chart, plan, globe, and a scale model should be used since the unawareness of techniques of cartography and the absence of the components of a map may hinder the understanding of what is intended to represent cartographically. The activities of the professionals working on cartographic products have been highlighted espe- cially in recent years. Received 20 September 2014 revised 20 October 2014 accepted 14 November 2014
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