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

map

wind map

Map showing wind direction and strength through oriented or animated strokes.

carte des vents

Carte figurant la direction et la force du vent par des traits orientés ou animés.

Classification

map
maps › flow maps
spatial, flow
the name evokes: nature

Attestation

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

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 536 papers since 1977, 19% in the last five years; mostly in Energy, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science

Seminal references

first known use (1686) Halley (1686). An historical account of the trade winds, and monsoons. Philosophical Transactions (260 citations); Andrews 2017, Friendly & Denis 2001

R packages

R metR::geom_streamline(); GitHub 158 stars; last commit 2026-10

Sources (9)

37 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books

Cite this entry

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

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

BibTeX

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

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