a person who makes maps; cartographer.
What do you call a mapmaker?
The French word cartographie (the science of making maps), from which we get our English word cartography, was created from carte, meaning "map," and -graphie, meaning "representation by." Around the same time we adopted cartography in the mid-19th century, we also created our word for a mapmaker, cartographer.
Is map making one word or two?
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAPMAKING
Mapmaking is a noun. A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality.