Diagram: thematic map — Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

Explanatory diagram: thematic map — Drawing: Adrien Taudière, after Dent et al. 2009, fig. 1.3, for the top of the tree (CC0)

Wikidata image: thematic map — voir Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0); Wikimedia Commons; item Q1502030

map

thematic map

also: data map

Map devoted to showing a phenomenon rather than to locating.

Classification

map
maps › area maps
spatial

Attestation

English definition: Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd ed., 2001

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 12 421 papers since 1897, 34% in the last five years; mostly in Environmental Science, Social Sciences, Computer Science; Wikidata

Seminal references

first known use (1782) Crome (1782). Producten-Karte von Europa; Friendly & Denis 2001

R packages

R tmap::tm_polygons(); GitHub 908 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (765 citations)
R mapsf::mf_map(); GitHub 249 stars; last commit 2026-10

Sources (26)

277 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 9 books

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/thematic-map.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. thematic map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/thematic-map.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-thematic-map,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {thematic map},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/thematic-map.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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