Thematic maps
- Ptolemaic graticule Claudius Ptolemy · 90-150
- Relief shading (hill shading) Gradual; theorised by Eduard Imhof · 1500s-1900s
- Eclipse path map Edmond Halley · 1715
- Bathymetric contour chart Nicolaas Samuel Cruquius · 1729
- Chorochromatic map Gradual; term associated with Erwin Raisz · 1741-1938
- Buache contour map Philippe Buache · 1752
- Du Carla theoretical contour map Marcellin du Carla-Boniface · 1782
- Hachures Johann Georg Lehmann · 1799
- Hypsometric tints Franz von Hauslab (first coloured contours); Bartholomew (popularised) · 1820s-1800s
- Dupin's figurative map (first choropleth) Charles Dupin · 1826
- Dot density map Armand Joseph Frère de Montizon · 1830
- Scrope classed density map George Julius Poulett Scrope · 1833
- Harness proportional-symbol and flow maps Henry D. Harness · 1837
- Physical atlas Heinrich Berghaus · 1838
- Ethnographic map James Cowles Prichard and Alexander Keith Johnston · 1843
- Minard flow map Charles Joseph Minard · 1845-1869
- Pie charts on a map Charles Joseph Minard · 1858
- Tissot indicatrix Nicolas Auguste Tissot · 1859
- Levasseur area cartogram Pierre Émile Levasseur · 1868-1875
- Electoral map Leon Montigny · 1870
- Population contour (isopleth) map Louis-Leger Vauthier · 1874
- Isogloss dialect map Georg Wenker; Jules Gilliéron · 1876+
- Isochronic passage chart Francis Galton · 1881
- Radial anamorphosis of travel time Ministère des Travaux Publics (Album de statistique graphique, directed by Émile Cheysson) · 1888
- Bivariate map Jacques Bertillon · 1896
- Mechanical teaching map James Ives · 1896
- Apportionment cartogram US House apportionment publications · 1911
- Dasymetric map Benjamin Semyonov-Tian-Shansky (term); John Kirtland Wright (Western practice) · 1911-1936
- Karsten population-projection cartogram Karl G. Karsten · 1923
- Concentric-occupation symbol with over/under chronology Charles O. Paullin (Carnegie Institution of Washington and American Geographical Society of New York) · 1932
- Rectangular statistical cartogram Erwin Raisz · 1934
- Orange-peel (gore) map Brinton (naming); globe-making practice · 1939
- Statistical relief map American statistical practice; described by Brinton · 1939
- Dymaxion map and folding globe Richard Buckminster Fuller · 1943
- Illuminated (Tanaka) contours Kitirô Tanaka · 1950
- Gould-White mental map Peter Gould and Rodney White · 1974