Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Contiguous Cartograms

 

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/types.html

In a contiguous cartogram, topology is maintained but this causes great distortion in shape. This leads to the single most difficult problem in creating cartograms. The cartographer must make the objects the appropriate size to represent the attribute value, but must also maintain the shape of objects.

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