Axis Maps (Andy, Ben, Dave, Mark, and I) just released indiemapper, a sweet browser-based thematic and reference mapping application.
For some more indie maps, check out our gallery. To try it out, just head over to indiemapper.com: you can sign up for a free 30 day trial without entering a credit card; after your trial, [...]
Classification is commonplace in thematic cartography. In choropleth mapping, classification is the norm. This was not always so. The first choropleth map (created by Baron Charles Dupin in 1826) was unclassed.
According to Arthur Robinson, in his Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography:
So far as we now know, the [...]