Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 259)

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Creating Thematic and Other
Themed Maps
Thematic mapping is a powerful way to analyze and visualize your data. You give
graphic form to your data so that you can see it on a map. Patterns and trends
that are almost impossible to detect in lists of data reveal themselves clearly when
you use thematic shading to display the data on a map.
You can create thematic maps with MapInfo Professional using the following
methods: ranges of values, graduated symbols, dot density, individual values,
bar and pie charts and continuous grid. There are also several variations on and
options within these methods, such as bivariate thematic mapping and inflection
point, that give you even more ways to analyze your data.
For clarification of the uses of thematic maps in MapInfo Professional, see MapInfo
Professional in Action in the Help System.
The Help System also contains these related topics:
• Bivariate Thematic Mapping
• Working with 3D and Prism Maps
In this section:
• MapInfo Professional in Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .260
• Using Thematic Mapping to Analyze Information . . . . .260
• Creating a Thematic Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273
• Changing the Display Parameters of a Map . . . . . . . . .278
• Updating Columns using Thematic Mapping . . . . . . . . .280
• Working with Grid Surface Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .286