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 don't know too much about cartography, do you?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know that cartography comes from the Greek work and is the study and the practice of making maps. I wonder if anyone even uses regular paper maps anymore! lol"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I guess most people use online mapping services."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know that I could not live without my GPS!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Indeed. But there's something satisfying about using one of those old road maps, except I never could fold them properly."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I used to love old maps too. Today, I mostly use google maps which offers satellite images, street views and route planning. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, it seems that google has eyes everywhere to gather all of the information to map things accurately."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, no doubt about that! I do worry about privacy issues!"}]