Question: Software for Cartograms?

S. P. Low from the University of Singapore, looking for software to make cartograms, writes:

We are working on a project that attempts to track the global construction market using cartograms, such as those rectangular cartograms used by the World Bank’s where size of a variable (say population) dictates the size of the rectangle for a country. We came across your fantastic website, searched the archive but couldn’t find an answer to our question. Would you be able to advise if there is such a software available which we can purchase for this purpose?

See previous entries: Cartograms from Worldmapper; Cartograms and Map Distortions; Electoral Maps Made Proportional; Even More U.S. Presidential Election Maps; U.S. Elections Results Cartogram.

Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 6:59 AM
Categories: Cartography, Questions, Software

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You might want to try the links on my posting “Cartograms Again” (http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/02/cartograms-again.html). They may (or may) be worthwhile. I tried using it and found that it works as long as the original polygons/shapes are simple enough.

Paul | 04/27/2006 at 8:20 AM | #

See also Paul’s entry, Make Your Own Cartogram, which looks at MAPresso, a free Java applet for making cartograms. His take: “All in all, an interesting tool made for the technical person. This is not a very user-friendly applet.”

[TypeKey Profile Page] Jonathan Crowe | 05/07/2006 at 8:13 AM | #

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