map
tile map
also: grid map, equalised cartogramSchematic map where each unit occupies an equal-size cell.
Classification
- map
- maps › cartograms
- spatial; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
- the name evokes: building
Scientific literature
OpenAlex: 194 papers since 2008, 30% in the last five years; mostly in Social Sciences, Computer Science, Environmental Science
Seminal references
R packages
- R
ggplot2::geom_tile(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations) - R
geofacet::facet_geo(); GitHub 353 stars; last commit 2026-01
Sources (10)
85 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
- app.flourish.studio
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- The big book of dashboards: visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualizing with text
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/tile-map.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. tile map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/tile-map.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-tile-map,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {tile map},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/tile-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.