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Cartogram Maker

Is there an easy-to-use Cartogram-creating program that Wikipedians can use to create maps without complicated fair use issues? There are certainly some cartogram generators online, but none apparently easy enough for me to use. (I'm dumb by the way.) --- Rogsheng (talk) 07:13, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just started using [[1]], it took me about 4 hours to get from a list of countries and weights to distorted maps. I admit it is not exactly the easy to use but its not bad. (I'm not to sharp either.) Seo01 (talk) 14:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is ScapeToad.--78.48.41.130 (talk) 15:48, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

How about including Borden D. Dent in the bibliography? --131.155.68.6 13:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Different Example?

How about using one of these cartograms for the US election instead?. They're generated by a different algorithm, and appear to be visually more understandable. The currently displayed image isn't bad, but it somewhat looks like it's filled with bubbles.

Because there's no explicitly open license? --Belg4mit 19:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology

The claim that "cartogram" does not refer to any statisitical map seems highly suspect. Webster's 7th says,

 a map showing statistics geographically

, which could be taken either way. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 gives the slightly more definitive:

 A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.

Finally, no less than Mark Monmonier ^[1] uses the term to refer to maps which are geometrically distorted for the sake of the message, calling the specific form espoused here an area cartogram. I suspect that in using such strong wording the original author was trying to distinguish between choropleths and cartograms. Any thoughts before I take a chainsaw to this entry? --Belg4mit 19:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After revisting the entry I can see what they're trying to say, but it still needs to be much clearer. --Belg4mit 19:09, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Monmonier, M. (1991). How to Lie with Maps. pp. 16—17

a map showing how many blow jons you can get in one day.

[1] Monmonier, M. (1991). How to Lie with Maps. pp. 16—17

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