Monday, April 11, 2011

Cartograms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cartlinearlarge.png

A cartogram is a thematic map type. The geometry of space of the these types of maps are distorted in order to help convey the information. This particular map is depicting popular votes in the 2004 US Presidential election. The size of the counties have been rescaled according their each individual population.

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