XSLT Templates for Thematic Maps

Computer technologies are gaining ground in cartography. But support and implementation of the wide range of cartographic interpretation methods ranks among the weak points of most computer systems focused on geospatial data visualisation. This paper tries to fill this gap. It presents XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) templates and their control file designed for generating some types of thematic maps (e.g. different types of choropleth maps or diagram maps).