map / carte - Visualization Vocabulary

Wikidata image: map — L. Magado (Dessinateur des travaux hydrauliques du port de Brest) (Public domain); Wikimedia Commons; item Q4006

map

Construction in which “the correspondences in the plane are established between the elements of a geographic component arranged in the observed geographic order” (Bertin, translated).

carte

Construction dont « les correspondances dans le plan s'établissent entre les éléments d'une composante géographique disposés suivant l'ordre géographique observé ».

Définition de Bertin : la carte est un réseau dont l'ordre est imposé par la géographie.

Classification

map
maps
spatial

Attestation and synonyms

French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps

carte géographique; French Wikipedia ↗

Scientific literature

Wikidata

R packages

R ggplot2::geom_sf(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations)

Sources (90)

873 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 16 books

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Cite this entry

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

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

BibTeX

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

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