[Geowanking] Election Maps / Population Cartogram

[Christian Willmes]

hi,

the algorithm for creating such maps is described here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/20/7499.abstract

The method is diffusion based. It uses density distribution of some
attribute in space (2d area) to compute this maps (value per area). I
don't think you can compute such maps from just distances between
points. You would have to interpolate it into space (2d area) before you
could use that algorithm I think.

I'm shure the most of you guys know already about this:
http://www.worldmapper.org/
But for the record here are some more of such maps. ;-)

regards
Christian

Dan Brickley schrieb:
> neuhausr at bitstream.net wrote:
>   
>> There's a opensource java program ScapeToad that does these sort of
>> transformations on shapefiles.  I've only played with it a little, but
>> it's pretty interesting.  <http://chorogram.choros.ch/scapetoad/>
>>     
>
> Could something like this produce a map of Europe distorted to take into 
> account ease/cost of travel between cities? (or has anyone else done 
> this somehow)
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
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