Kartoitettiin

Kartoitettiin is a Finnish verb form meaning “was mapped” or “was charted.” It is the passive past tense of kartoittaa, a verb that means to map, chart, survey, or inventory. The form indicates that a mapping activity was completed at some point in the past without specifying the agent responsible for the action.

In Finnish texts, kartoitettiin is commonly used in scientific, geographic, archaeological, environmental, and public administration contexts. It signals that data collection and spatial documentation of features, resources, phenomena, or inventories were carried out and are often a step preceding analysis or publication. The agent performing the mapping may be explicit or omitted, depending on the sentence and context.

Related forms include kartoittaa (to map or chart), kartoittaminen (the act of mapping), and kartoitus (the result or process of mapping). The present passive form is kartoitetaan, and the perfect passive form is on kartoitettu (has been mapped). These forms are used to convey different temporal aspects of mapping activity while keeping the focus on the outcome rather than the actor.

Etymology traces kartoittaa to kartta, meaning map, which itself is related to Swedish karta and ultimately from Latin carta. The word thus sits within a family of terms for geographic documentation and cartography in Finnish.