Proportional Circle Map

http://www.neiu.edu/~nerobert/Cartography.htm


A proportional circle map is used to show different types of data by using a limited number of circles, each circle representting a different amount of the desired data. Proportional circle maps are very benefical in showing things like population, like in the map above taken in 1990 from the US Census they used proportional circle maps to show the amount of Native American Population in each state.

Choropleth map

http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/Geo204/Choro/Tom/

A choropleth map can be used to show many different types of data, it shows the different types of data by coloring or by pattern. They are widely used because of how user friendly they are, and are simple to read. Most choropleth maps are linked with showing characteristics of populations. This map above is showing the distribution of hispanic population in the counties of Florida.

Dot Distribution map

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw_fr/Members/ParticipantMap00.htm

Dot Distribution maps are used to show a location of a certain data over a geographic area. Dot distribution maps likely are a single dot located on a map that show a specific data point. The map above was used to show where feeder watchers were located across North America. Each dot represents the zip code of someone who signed up to participate in the feeder watcher program. So each single dot represents one persons home, but as the dots become more condensed it becomes clumped.

Propaganda map

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/texas/images/21993842/title/texans-map-united-states-fanart

A propaganda map has a very broad definition and is used to influence people a certain way. More or likely they give false information and to someone who doesn't know the facts will be mislead. Like if you were to show this map to someone who isn't a resident of the United States would believe that this is the actual size of Texas. Propaganda maps are very common in times of war and election periods. 

PLSS map

http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/boundaries/a_plss.html


PLSS or Public Land Survey System is used across the United States for the purpose of subdividing land. Used by the Federal government to divide up public lands by a rectangular system. By townships they are subdivided mostly by 6 mile sections. Now most of the PLSS is privated owned land because of the selling of land by the Federal government many years ago. 

Hypsometric map

http://www.reliefshading.com/colors/hypsometric.html

A hysometric map uses different colors, or shading to show change in elevation. Each different contour line is filled with a color and thats how hysometric maps are created. This is a hysometric map of the country France, you can see the border of Spain below, and the changing of color from the coast inland to the Alps. Much like a contour map but uses color so it can be more easily understood.

Cadastral map

http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/CadastralMapProject.html

A Cadastral Map is used to show the boundaries between land, land ownership, and the tenure for that land. They can show the individual value of the land, used mostly in rural communites. It is very useful still to this day and used in business, while correlating with records and registration.

Thematic map

http://soils.usda.gov/use/thematic/moist_regimes.html

A thematic map is used to show the different types of soil mositure across the United States. Thematic maps are used to show different data across a geographical area, large or small. Thematic maps differ from other maps because they only take into account basic data, like coastlines, boundaries and places. They stay detailed in the data that is presented but are not focused on other outlying data like landforms, and transportation.

Statistical map

http://seattlebubble.com/blog/2006/09/11/mapping-housing-market-health/


This is a statistical map, a statistical map is categorised as a map that displays statistics on top of land or over a land area. To compare places and the statistic to each other. In this map is it useful to show the difference in the income of the average gain/decline in income, compared state-by-state. Stats maps are very useful and can be used in a variety of ways to compare large or small statistics over large or small areas. 

Flow map

http://mundi.net/maps/maps_014/

This is a flow map because it maps the travel or "flow" of something across the globe. Flow maps are very useful in all aspects of todays modern world, because of the ability to track so many different variables that travel across countries borders. This specific flow map is showing telephone traffic in Europe. As you can see countries that talk on the phone more have thicker, bolder lines traveling between one another, while less telephone traffic has thinner, skinny lines between them.

Topographic map

http://geology.com/state-map/new-hampshire.shtml

This is a topographic map because it uses contour lines to show rise and fall in elevation. Contour lines can be used in a variety of ways, but mostly are seen in showing elevation differences. This is the state of New Hampshire, which as you can see in the northern middle part of the state there is the rise in elevation which is the White Mountain Range.

Black & White Aerial Photo

http://www.jaha.org/edu/flood/rebuild/img/panoramas/index.html

This is an example of a Black & White Aerial Photo graph of the city Johnstown. A black and white aerial photograph gives people the chance to look at something with there eyes as if they were looking at it from above. The photo being black and white may help them tell the difference between buildings and nature.

Cartogram

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/


This is an example of a cartogram, a cartogram map is used to show people different types of data they may be interested in. Cartograms show people the data of interest by enlarging or shrinking the country, depending on the correlation to the data of interest. This cartogram shows population distribution, as you can see the countries are distorted in size to show the relationship with how much of the worlds population they hold. 

Scatterplot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatter_plot

This is an example of a scatterplot, this scatter plot was created to show the eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser. Scatter plots must show the relationship between two different types of data, the y-axis is the time between eruptions and the x-axis is the duration of the eruptions.

Mental Map

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/mapsandsociety/slides/thematic/cartoons/index.html

This is the mental map drawn by a person which is there depiction of the world. This mental map satisfies many qualities needed to be called a mental map. To be a mental map it is generally remembered and created in the eye of the beholder, of creator of the mental map. It is accepted that no map is perfect, so mental maps cannot be perfect.