posts tagged 'cartograms'

def CreateRubberSheetCartogram

Big ups to Eric Wolf, who recently released his Python script to generate continuous, “rubber sheet” cartograms. In this case, rather than the ever-so-popular Gastner-Newman diffusion-based method (2004), Wolf uses the Dougenik, Chrisman, and Niemeyer (1985) algorithm. Of the method, the authors initially wrote,

Cartograms are controversial in part because they are difficult to [...]

cartogram blog roundup

In addition to my discussion of my own modest efforts at programming cartograms, there’s been quite a bit of attention paid in the blogosphere to cartograms lately. My three faves below.
in making maps: diy cartography blog

Prof. John Krygier displays a true value-by-area cartogram older than any I’d seen prior. As I note in [...]