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Change Page name to "Computer Cartography"

The term "digital mapping" is an odd choice in my professional opinion. "Mapping" is a verb that is not exclusive to cartographic maps, which is what this article is about. "Cartography" is the study and process of making maps. The two sources in the lead (I am the one who added them) are some of the oldest text books you can find on the topic, and both use the word "cartography" rather then "mapping." The first paper on using computers to help create maps is titled "automation and cartography," again showing the preference for word choice. When looking at the term "Digital mapping" on google scholar, most papers with it in the title are followed with the word "of," such as "Digital mapping of soil carbon fractions with machine learning". The overall concept of "mapping" in this case falls under applied cartography.

This article needs substantial work, and I hope to take on flushing it out, and have been thinking about this page for a few months. The use of "digital mapping" is a large discrepancy with the literature. Ultimately, all of this is a subset of the main topic of "cartography," as stated in "Cartography and the others – aspects of a complicated relationship" when it says: ""Digital cartography” and “computer cartography” were new names for the discipline in the hope this will silence voices claiming that cartography becomes irrelevant. Even a new paradigm called “cybercartography” was introduced by Taylor and Lauriault (Citation2005). All this seems unnecessary when we accept that every discipline has to adapt to new developments and evolves naturally. It is still cartography!" This is important, as the terms employed both emphasize "cartography"

For a Misplaced Pages article, a separate page from cartography is definitely necessary, however, I think the page title should relate the two together.

With this in mind, I will move the page based on the Misplaced Pages:Moving a page reason "The title does not follow Misplaced Pages's naming conventions, such as that it is not the common name of the subject or it is overprecise" based on the term "digital mapping" being an over precise verb for conducting "computer cartography." If you have a strong counter point based in literature for the term "Digital mapping," rather then "computer cartography" please discuss here.

GeogSage 18:39, 4 September 2023 (UTC)