Wikipedia's Absurdist Taxonomy of Map Types

Procrastination has led me to consult the page for “Map” in Wikipedia. Of the many things that are problematical about the contents of this page, it includes various lists of “types of maps.” Taken together they seem to manifest the same principles as those governing Borges’s famed taxonomy of animals in his imagined “Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge” (which of course has its own Wikipedia page). For those unaware of Borges’s wonderfully absurd classification, the types of animals are:

those belonging to the Emperor / embalmed ones / trained ones / suckling pigs / sirens / fabled ones / stray dogs / those included in this classification / those that tremble as if they were mad / innumerable ones / those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush / et cetera / those that have just broken the vase / those that from afar look like flies

The taxonomy of maps offered by Wikipedia is as follows (with glosses):

8 Map types

8.1 Electronic maps
8.2 Climatic maps
8.3 Non-geographical spatial maps
8.4 Topological maps
8.5 General-purpose maps
8.6 List of map types [i.e., titles of other pages in Wikipedia]

Aeronautical chart
Atlas
Cadastral map
Climatic map
Geologic map
Nautical map
Physical map
Political map
Relief map
Resource map
Star map
Street map
Thematic map
Topographic map
Weather map
World map
Cultural map [no page exists]
Technical map (Infrastructure map) [no page exists]

10 See also

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City map
Compass rose
Contour map
Estate map
Fantasy map
Floor plan
Geologic map
Hypsometric tints
Map design
Orthophotomap—A map created from orthophotography
Pictorial maps
Plat
Road atlas
Transit map
Page layout (cartography)

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