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Subject: [gislist] "Distorted" Maps Should be Scaling to parameter of interest.
Date:  01/04/2006 03:35:01 PM
From:  DickBoyd .. aol.com




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Mara Kaminowitz has provided a link to a cartogram prepared at the University
of Michigan.
Thank you, Mara. There are several representations of the voting pattern
using electoral votes, percent of population, population and other factors as
scaling factors.

Message formatting may be lost in transmission. Dick

In a message dated 1/4/2006 1:08:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
mkaminow@gmail.com writes:
Here it is:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/

At the bottom there are links to the code and some more information.
It might not be directly applicable but the methods may be useful to
do something similiar to a traffic map, especially if the map is only
for presentation and doesn't have to be a functioning network.

Mara Kaminowitz

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