Types of thematic maps

You are encouraged to read the article 7 Types of Thematic Maps by Abdishakur Hassan, and also to study the presentation entitled Types Of Thematic Maps (available at the Course Materials) to get an idea on the different types of thematic maps, especially univariate ones.

More details can be obtained from the following online articles:

1. Choropleth maps,
2. Proportional symbols, and
3. Dot density maps

which are available from Cartography Guide by Axis Maps, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Mutlivariate thematic maps consititute a more advanced topic in thematic mapping (read the article Univariate Maps Versus Multivariate Maps), nontheless, you can find some interesting articles again from Cartography guide on different multivariatw thematic map types such as:

1. Bivariate Choropleth
2. Bivariate Proportional Symbols
3. Bivariate Cartograms
4. Value-By-Alpha Maps