Mapping may refer to: Cartography, mapmaking Surveying, accurately determining the position of points in 3-D space Photogrammetry, inferring 3-D information from stereo photographs Metaphor, cross mapping across two or more seemingly unrelated subjects Conceptual metaphor, in cognitive linguistics, understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain Analogy, inference from a particular to another particular Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes In… (More on Mapping)