A thematic map is based on a geographic foundation of standard maps, emphasizing specific natural elements or socio-economic phenomena within the mapped area. The content consists of two components: thematic content and geographic base. The former highlights natural elements or socio-economic phenomena with their characteristics, while the latter provides spatial positioning and geographic context using standard map elements. This map type features detailed representation of thematic elements, with selective display of relevant geographic base elements according to the theme. Thematic maps represent the most active and rapidly developing field in cartography, continuously evolving with diverse types and extensive applications across all domains of human society.

SuperMap provides powerful thematic mapping capabilities with user-friendly operations to create vivid, high-quality thematic maps. It supports creation of unique value thematic maps, graduated color thematic maps, label thematic maps, statistical thematic maps, graduated symbol thematic maps, dot density thematic maps, custom thematic maps, grid unique value maps, and grid graduated color maps. These thematic expressions have wide practical applications.

For basic concepts including thematic variables, thematic items, thematic map layers, and thematic map display, as well as applicable scenarios for various thematic map types, see Thematic Map.

Create Thematic Map

Create thematic maps through new templates or preconfigured thematic map templates.

Edit Thematic Map

supports editing of unique value thematic maps, graduated color thematic maps, and custom thematic maps, allowing direct modification of geometries in existing thematic maps without requiring source data editing and recreation.

Save Thematic Map as Dataset

Export thematic maps as CAD or text datasets while preserving their style configurations.

Unique Value Thematic Map

This map categorizes features with identical attribute field values, assigning distinct rendering styles (colors/symbols) to each category. Effective for emphasizing categorical differences (e.g., soil types, land use maps, four-color maps) but not quantitative information.

Graduated Color Thematic Map

Features are classified into ranges based on thematic values, with each range assigned a color style. Ideal for visualizing quantitative regional characteristics like sales figures, household income, GDP, or ratios such as population density.

Label Thematic Map

Primarily used for annotating features using text/numeric fields from layer properties. Common applications include labeling placenames, road names, river widths, and contour elevations.

Statistical Thematic Map

Represents feature attributes through statistical charts, supporting multi-variable analysis. Effective for comparing distribution patterns and trends of natural/socio-economic phenomena (e.g., multi-year crop yields, GDP, population across regions).

Graduated Symbol Thematic Map

Maps attribute values to proportionally scaled point symbols, where larger symbols indicate higher values. Commonly used for quantitative data visualization like regional crop production, GDP, and population.

Dot Density Thematic Map

Represents attribute values through dot density, with higher feature values showing denser dot distributions. Suitable for visualizing quantitative distributions such as grain output, GDP, and population density.

Custom Thematic Map

Creates customized maps using numeric fields linked to style IDs in symbol libraries, enabling flexible data representation.

Grid Unique Value Map

Classifies raster cells with identical values into categories, each displayed with a unique color.

Grid Graduated Color Map

Divides raster cell values into ranges, with each range represented by a distinct color.