David Woodward (29 August 1942 – 25 August 2004) was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.
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The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the Thirteen original colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
He also looks at its place in the history of map-making from the days of the second-century Greek-Egyptian geographer Ptolemy and his treatise on geography.