The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cartography:

Cartography (also called mapmaking) – study and practice of making and using maps or globes. Maps have traditionally been made using pen and paper, but the advent and spread of computers has revolutionized cartography.

• Atlas
• Globe
• Map
• Map collection
• Mapping of the Earth

• Celestial cartography
• Planetary cartography

• Cartogram
• City map
• Contour map
• Dymaxion map
• Electronic map
• Fantasy map
• Geologic map
• Nautical chart
• Pictorial maps
• Planform
• Plat
• Reversed map
• Road atlas
• Street map
• Thematic map
• Topographic map
• World map

History of cartography

• Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
• History of geography
  • Chinese geography
  • List of Graeco-Roman geographers
  • Geography and cartography in medieval Islam
• Majorcan cartographic school

• Cartographic aggression
• Cartographic censorship
• Cartographic propaganda

• National mapping agency
• British Cartographic Society
• Cartography and Geographic Information Society
• International Cartographic Association
• National Cartographic Center of Iran
• North American Cartographic Information Society

• List of cartographers

• Global Positioning System
• Navigation
• Maps

• Mapping History - a learning resource from the British Library
• Geography and Maps, an Illustrated Guide, by the staff of the US Library of Congress.
• The history of cartography at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• Antique Maps by Carl Moreland and David Bannister - complete text of the book, with information both on mapmaking and on mapmakers, including short biographies of many cartographers
• North American Cartographic Information Society
• Society of Cartographers supports the practising cartographer and encourages and maintains a high standard of cartographic illustration
• Concise Bibliography of the History of Cartography, Newberry Library
• UPCT : project aimed at creating a world map (a French map to begin) with voluntaries using GPS
• GITTA - A webbased open content eLearning course with basic and intermediate cartography lessons based on the eLML XML framework.