⊿ Point. {R} Glossary. ◢ Keyword: M. ▰ Sources. 〓 Books [B] ◥ University. {q} PhD. {tr} Training. {R} L' Review. [B] PhD. ⚫ USA. ↂ EndNote. {R} L' Review. ☢️ Skimming. ☢️ Scanning. ☝️ Machi (2016) Mapping. Mapping. Mapping is creating graphic representations of information using spatial relationships within the graphic to represent some relationships within the data. The common and original practice of mapping is the scaled portrayal of geographical features, that is, cartography. In the contemporary sense of data visualization, it includes metaphorical extensions of geographical map conventions and literacies to other kinds of data, as well as innovative ways of visualizing data not clearly related to the geographical archetype. In popular vernacular, mapping can just mean organizing or systematizing information.
Geography and cartography[edit] In maps, aspects of the image are analogs for values in the information being presented. Contemporary maps of non-geographical data sets make use of and extend the familiar ways of organizing information in geographical maps to other kinds of data not necessarily concerned with spacial relationships per se. Information science and data visualization[edit]