Abstract
The author, an important research cartographer in the USSR, and principal proponent of cartography as the language of the map [see M.S.R.S., 1984, No. 2, pp. 103–117] identifies and analyzes four popular theoretical conceptions of cartography–the map science concept, metacartography, cartology, and the graphic-communicative concept. Lyutyy proposes that the concept of the language of the map represents a larger, more comprehensive “common denominator” present in all four conceptions, and thus provides the framework for their synthesis into a single, unified theory of cartography, addressing all basic questions to be answered by a science without internal contradictions. Translated from: Izvestiya AN SSSR, seriya geograficheskaya, 1985, No. 4, pp. 116–132.
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