i am a cartographer.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Cartography (from Greek \u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \"khart\u0113s\", \"papyrus, sheet of paper, map\"; and \u03b3\u03c1\u03ac\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd \"graphein\", \"write\") is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. The fundamental problems of traditional cartography are to:  Modern cartography constitutes many theoretical and practical foundations of geographic information systems. The earliest known map is a matter of some debate, both because the term \"map\" isn't well-defined and because some artifacts that might be maps might actually be something else. A wall painting that might depict the ancient Anatolian city of \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck (previously known as Catal Huyuk or \u00c7atal H\u00fcy\u00fck) has been dated to the late 7th millennium BCE. Among the prehistoric alpine rock carvings of Mount Bego (F) and Valcamonica (I), dated to the 4th millennium BCE, geometric patterns consisting of dotted rectangles and lines are widely interpreted in archaeological literature as a depiction of cultivated plots. Other known maps of the ancient world include the Minoan \"House of the Admiral\" wall painting from c. 1600 BCE, showing a seaside community in an oblique perspective and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period (14th12th centuries BCE).\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am a cartographer, do you know what that is?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Of course!  It's the study of making maps."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, it is an interesting profession, but one I feel is maybe a neich, since everything is going digital"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think it'll still have it's place, since one of the tenants is that maps can be built in a way that communicate the information effectively, even digitally."}, {"role": "user", "content": "that is true, the love for maps is similar to the love for books, even when digital is there you love to get your hands on the paper one"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My favorite thing about maps is that they can represent anything, be it real or imagined, so I especially love maps in fantasy books."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Like Tolken? In cartography, technology has continually changed in order to meet the demands of new generations of mapmakers and map users"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Exactly like Tolkien!  A lot of his stories were made just to fill in what happened in the maps he made and languages he developed."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Maps can also be used just for nautical sailing or just land mass, there are so many possibilities, I also love a story you read and then can see the places on a map"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Maps are just plain fun! Even if you're talking about cave paintings, ancient Greek maps, or even maps of the stars."}, {"role": "user", "content": "So true, there is a world of things you can do with them."}]