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by erydo 2636 days ago
It's still just one definition: A paper map relates a point on a the piece of paper to a point in some other space (topography, subway stops, interstate routes, etc). And if you relax the "carto" part of "cartography" (e.g. someone working on OSM or Google Maps is still doing cartography), then I think cartography as "the practice of constructing maps" is still an unambiguous and non-overloaded meaning, which applies to mapping infrastructure just as well.

But, words are just words.