Cartogram creation
A cartogram is a variable scale map that preserves topological relations.
Cartograms can be used to visualize statistical data.
Example cartogram
The following example visualizes the distribution of epanet.de visitors:
Software to create cartograms
The ScapeToad software can be used to create cartograms.
It uses the diffusion-based Gastner/Newman algorithm.
ScapeToad is free software (open source) released under the terms of the GPL.
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