“Geovisualization integrates approaches from visualization in scientific computing (ViSC), cartography, image analysis, information visualization, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and geographic information systems (GISystems) to provide theory, methods, and tools for visual exploration, analysis, synthesis, and presentation of geospatial data”

—  Alan MacEachren

any data having geospatial referencing
Source: Research challenges in geovisualization (2001), p. 3

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