Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The thematic cartography appeared successively to topographic cartography. It developed from the demand for specificmaps to meet the new requirements on account of systematization of the branches of emancipated studies with thedivision of scientific work in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This article rescues in brief notes, someextremely relevant methods and techniques for the development of thematic cartography, as well as the cartographicproduction field as an academic discipline dissemination of geographical knowledge. Although in essence the wholemap has a theme, the so-called thematic cartography has specific methods and theories, which have been incorporatedcartography in order to ensure the production of knowledge on the transmission of nominal, ordinal and numericalinformation. The proposal discussed in this study, reinforces the idea that as language the maps are combined with thehistorical practice and may reveal different worldviews.
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4313197224