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Mapping one's infrastructure is pretty common parlance. It's not even a pun, really.

• slothtrop 8y ago
  Yes, because mapping has more than one meaning, e.g. an operation that associates each element of a given set (the domain) with one or more elements of a second set (the range). Cartography doesn't.
  • erydo 8y ago
    It's still just one definition: A paper map relates a point on a the piece of paper to a point in some other space (topography, subway stops, interstate routes, etc). And if you relax the "carto" part of "cartography" (e.g. someone working on OSM or Google Maps is still doing cartography), then I think cartography as "the practice of constructing maps" is still an unambiguous and non-overloaded meaning, which applies to mapping infrastructure just as well. But, words are just words.