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

map

tile map

also: grid map, equalised cartogram

Schematic map where each unit occupies an equal-size cell.

carte en tuiles

aussi : carte grille, cartogramme égalisé

Carte schématique où chaque unité occupe une case de même taille.

Classification

map
maps › cartograms
spatial; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
the name evokes: building

Attestation

French term: Financial Times Visual Vocabulary, French version ↗

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 194 papers since 2008, 30% in the last five years; mostly in Social Sciences, Computer Science, Environmental Science

Seminal references

first known use (1902) Balogh & Proff (1902). A népfajok Magyarországon; The art of insight: how great visualization designers think

R packages

R ggplot2::geom_tile(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations) Une tuile par région sur une grille de positions.
R geofacet::facet_geo(); GitHub 353 stars; last commit 2026-01

Sources (12)

85 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books

Show the 12 sources

Cite this entry

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

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. tile map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/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/term/tile-map.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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