This book provides two conceptual frameworks for further investigation of map literacy and fills in a gap in map literacy studies, addressing the distinction between reference maps and thematic maps and the varying uses of quantitative map literacy (QML) within and between the two. The text offers two conceptual frameworks and uses specific map examples to explore this variability in map reading skills and knowledge, with the goal of informing educational pedagogy and practices within geography and related disciplines. The book will appeal to cartographers and geographers as a new perspective on a tool of communication they have long employed in their disciplines, and will also appeal to those involved in the educational pedagogy of information and data literacy as a way to conceptualize the development of curricula and teaching materials in the increasingly important arena of the interplay between quantitative data and map-based graphics.

Chapter 1-From Literacy to Map Literacy. Chapter 2-Map Literacy Studies. Chapter 3-Venn Model for Map Literacy. Chapter 4-Triangular Plot Approach. Chapter 5-Exploring Maps in the Triangular Plot. Chapter 6-Knowledge and Skills for Reading Reference maps. Chapter 7-Knowledge and Skills for Reading Thematic Maps. Chapter 8-Concluding Remarks.