

map
locator map
Simple map showing where the place discussed in the text lies.
carte de localisation
Carte simple qui situe le lieu dont parle le texte.
Classification
- map
- maps
- spatial
Attestation
- French term: Common usage, not attested by a source
- English definition: Koponen & Hildén, Data Visualization Handbook, Aalto, 2019
Scientific literature
OpenAlex: 70 papers since 1985, 23% in the last five years; mostly in Social Sciences, Energy, Arts and Humanities; Wikidata
Seminal references
Sources (10)
9 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book
- app.flourish.studio
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Data visualization handbook
- datawrapper.de↗
- Koponen & Hildén, Data Visualization Handbook, Aalto, 2019
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/locator-map.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. locator map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/locator-map.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-locator-map,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {locator map},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/locator-map.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.