map
contour map
also: isoline mapLines joining points of equal value.
Classification
- map
- maps › surface maps
- spatial; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
Attestation and synonyms
- English definition: Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
- isarithmic map; The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- isarithmic map; Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- isarithmic map; Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- isarithmic map; Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
Scientific literature
OpenAlex: 13 268 papers since 1895, 15% in the last five years; mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Science; Wikidata
Seminal references
R packages
- R
ggplot2::geom_contour_filled(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations)
Sources (18)
68 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
Show the 18 sources
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- datavis.ca↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Graphic presentation
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/contour-map.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. contour map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/contour-map.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-contour-map,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {contour map},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/contour-map.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.