Star plots

Below is an image of a Star plots map that compares reservoir levels.  This map type is useful for illustrating multivariate data in a single five point illustration.



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Similarity matrix

Below is an image of a Similarity matrix that compares furniture types.  This type of map is useful for illustrating the likeness between identical data elements.



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Stem and leaf plot

Below is an image of a Stem and leaf plot map.  This map type is useful for summarizing data points and the shape of a distribution.



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Box plot

Below is an image of a box plot map that illustrates the building density against urban atlas codes.  This map type is useful for illustrating and comparing data-sets between two or more variables.


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Histogram

Below is an image of a Histogram map of the United States that illustrates the hours delays in traffic per year.  These map types are useful for illustrating changing data-sets with the use of color shading over a particular frequency or time period.



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Triangular plot

Below is an image of a Triangular plot map that illustrates the different types of gravel on the ocean floor.  These map types are useful for illustrating the differences in values between three specific data-types.




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Windrose

Below is an image of a Windrose map over the area of Massachusetts near Boston that illustrates wind speeds.  This map type is useful for illustrating the wind speeds over a specific area and time period.



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Climograph

Below is an image of a Climograph map of the climate types across the world.  These map types are useful for illustrating climate features such as temperature and precipitation in a particular region or country.  



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Population profile

Below is an image of a Population profile map of the change in resident population for the United States from 1990 to 2000.  These map types are useful for illustrating census data over a period of time.

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Scatterplot

Below is an image of a Scatterplot map of the city of Pittsburgh, PA showing geographic density and diversity.  These map types are useful for illustrating the relation between two or more data-sets.



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Index value plot

Below is an image of an Index Value plot map of the losses and gains of IBM, Microsoft, and the S&P 500.  These map types are useful for illustrating changing values over a period of time.



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Bilateral graph

Below is an image of a Bilateral graph map of the assistance for HIV/AIDs in multiple countries during the year 2002.  These map types are useful for illustrating multiple data-sets through the use of bar and line graphs.



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Nominal area choropleth map

Below is an image of a Nominal area choropleth map of the Hispanic population in the United States.  This map type is useful for illustrating smaller data-sets which are typically illustrated through the use of different color shades.



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Unstandardized choropleth maps

Below is an image of an Unstandardized choropleth map of the Indian and Chinese population in the United States.  This map type is useful for illustrating the differences between variables that are not necessarily averaged.

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Standardized choropleth maps

Below is an image of a Standardized choropleth map of crime rates in the United States vs the Election results of 2004.  This map type is useful for illustrating averaged data over a particular region or land mass.



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Univariate choropleth maps

Below is an image of an Univariate Choropleth Map of the presidential election between Obama and McCain.  This map is useful for illustrating only one type of variable on a single map.



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Bivariate choropleth maps

Below is an image of a Bivariate choropleth map of the states with crop farms and those without farms.  These map types are useful for illustrating two variables in the same map type.





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Unclassed choropleth maps

Below is an image of an Unclassed choropleth map of the United States that depicts whether or not some human lives are worth more than others based upon state.  These map types are useful in illustrating variables that are not statistically averaged.



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Classed choropleth maps

Below is an image of a Classed choropleth map that illustrates the Cancer Rates in the United States.  This map type is useful for illustrating statistical data such as income and disease rates over a specific region or country.



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Range graded proportional circle map

Below is an image of Range graded proportional circle map of the Hispanic population in the United States. These map types are useful for illustrating a a specific value such as population with the use of proportional sized circles that are placed on a map in regards to distance.



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Continuously variable proportional circle map

Below is an image of a Continuously variable proportional circle map of the foreign-born groups in the United States.   These map types are useful for illustrating multiple values within the same map type by the use of different sized circles.



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DOQQ Maps

Below is an image of an DOQQ map over the state of Louisiana.  This map type is useful for illustrating equal areas of land regions by following the lines of latitude and longitude based upon a scaled grid.



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DEM

Below is an image of an DEM map over the west coast of the United States.  This map type is useful for illustrating a 3D representation of a land's elevation through digital representation.



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DLG Map

Below is an image of an DLG map of a region of Wyoming.  These map types are useful for illustrating digital line graphs of land boundaries, waterways, and other man made features such as roadways and railways.



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DRG Map

Below is an image of an DRG map of the Sequoia River.  These map types are useful for illustrating paper maps that have been uploaded to a computer system for digital viewing.

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Isopleths

Below is an image of an Isopleths map that illustrates the annual wet deposition of the east coast in the United States. These map types are useful for illustrating equal areas of some type of geographic or weather condition.



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Isopach

Below is an image of an Isopach map of Rio Blanco Tephra deposit.  These map types are useful for illustrating equal thicknesses of land and other geological objects such as rock layers.



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Isohyets

Below is an image of an Isohyets map of mean rainfall.  These map types are useful for connecting equal points of rainfall over a particular region.



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Isotachs

Below is an image of an Isotachs map of the geopotential height and temperature in the United States.  This map type is useful for illustrating equal wind speed points.



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Isobars

Below is an image of an Isobars map which illustrates the equal pressures of the United States during the spring of 2000.  These map types are useful for illustrating equal points on a map in particular with atmospheric conditions such as temperature.


 

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LIDAR Map

Below is an image of a LIDAR map of a cliff and beach.  These map types are useful for illustrating shorelines and calculating total distances by the use of light detection and ranging.



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Doppler radar

Below is an image of a Doppler radar map over Louisville, KY.  These map types are useful for illustrating the movement and patterns of weather conditions such as rain, wind, and other storm types.



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Black & white aerial photo

Below is an image of a Black & white aerial photo of Harrisburg, PA.  These map types are useful for illustrating land areas and regions for real-estate purposes.



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Infrared aerial photo

Below is an image of an Infrared aerial photo map of the snake river flood plain.  These map types are useful for illustrating land destruction such as mines and the impact to the quality of water sources.



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Cartographic animations

Below is an image of a Cartographic animation which illustrates an animated representation of a storm system over a period of time.  These map types are useful for displaying severe weather conditions and other atmospheric situations.



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Statistical map

Below is an image of a statistical map which illustrates the differences in metropolitan and micropolitan populations in the United States.  These map types are useful for illustrating variances between populations and demographics.



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Cartogram Map

Below is an image of a cartogram map which illustrates the 2012 electoral votes between democrats (Obama) and republicans (Mitt Romney).  This map type is useful for illustrating a region relative to their population or other factors such as political preference.



http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sgao/images/cartogramUSelection_SongGao.jpg

Flow Map

Below is an image of a flow map which shows the movement of information from one location to another.  In the map below, we can view the wine export route from France



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Isoline Map

Below is an image of an Isoline Map which illustrates the amount of carbon monoxide per square kilometer in the UK.  This type of map joins points of the same value and illustrates density by the use of color intensity.



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Proportional circle map

Below is an image of a Proportional circle map which illustrates the value of data found in a particular area.  The map below illustrates the population of each state based upon the size of the circle.



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Choropleth maps

Below is an image of a Choropleth map which illustrates the population of individuals who are living in poverty.  These map types are useful in displaying the average number of variables such as populations in specific area.



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Dot distribution map

Below is an image of a dot distribution map which illustrates the public libraries in the United States by the use of colored dots.  The number of dots grouped together represent the number of variables (in this case libraries) in a specific area.


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Propaganda maps

Below is an image of Propaganda Map which illustrates the specific views of group or individual and is meant to persuade viewers.  In addition, these types of maps are meant to invoke emotion and some type of feeling.



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Hypsometric Map

Below is an image of a Hypsometric Map that illustrates the elevation of land masses and terrains by the use of a color scale.



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PLSS maps

Below is a picture of a PLSS Map.  These types of maps illustrate the boundaries the public domain lands.  In particular the land areas in the United States.



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Cadastral Map

Below is a picture of a Cadastral Map which illustrates the ownership of a particular land mass.  These types of maps are useful for illustrating individual land plots and the ownership boundaries.



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Thematic Map

Below is a picture of a Thematic Map that illustrates a specific value or data as it pertains to a particular land mass.  A Thematic Map is useful in displaying items such as populations and other census data.  Below we can see the number of new businesses by shaded color to represent new businesses by the thousands in the year 1999.

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Topographic Map

Below is an image of a Topographic Map which shows the shape of an area as well as the elevation and terrain.  Topographic Maps are useful because they accurately show the natural and man made features of a land mass.

http://www.geomart.com/images/digital/drg/drgplain.jpg

Planimetric Map

Below is picture of a Planimetric Map which illustrates only parallel features of a land mass without any detail about the terrain.  These types of maps are useful because they typically show areas within an actual scale of distance and size.  As a result, they are widely used by engineers and military personnel.

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Mental Map

Below is a picture of a Mental Map which gives an individual interpretation of the sizes and distances of land masses.  This Mental Map below illustrates the land area sizes, oceans, and general shapes of each continent.  Mental Maps are helpful in creating a general understanding of areas.

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