What can we call someone who creates a map based on somebody's exploration?
For instance one person explores and collects data about a place and another one creates a map from that data? Not just a drawing but with information, a database of the explored place.
I know about "cartographer", but they simply draw a map. I need to imply creating a whole database of the explored place. Like if somebody explores an island then there should be information on fauna, flora, soil, water, atmosphere, landscape, minerals, settlements, inhabitants, radiation (if present). And maybe a lot more.
Best Answer
The job of the cartographer is drawing the map. The gathering of information is done by different sorts of specialists.
The physical layout is measured by a surveyor.
Information about plants is gathered by a biologist, a botanist, or a horticulturist; information about minerals and soils, by a geologist; about people, an anthropologist, sociologist, or ethnologist.
There is, so far as I know, no general word meaning, "person who collects information for eventual depiction on a map", although perhaps the word geographer might be useful in your context.