Glossary

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3 results found in Cartography.

GIS (Geographic Information System, Geographic Information Systems)
A class of software systems — such as ArcGIS, QGIS, and open-source geospatial libraries — that capture, store, manipulate, analyze, and visualize geographic and spatial data by linking location coord…
Geovisualization (Geospatial visualization, Geographic visualization)
The use of interactive visual representations — choropleth maps, dot density maps, heat maps, flow maps, and related forms — to make geographic patterns, trends, and spatial relationships visible and …
Thematic Map (Statistical map)
A map designed to communicate a specific theme or statistical variable across a geographic region — population density, income, election results, climate, disease prevalence — rather than to depict ge…