Interactive Cartograms: Home

Introduction:

Many different approaches exist that propose feasible ways how to generate cartograms:

• Daniel Keim:
  • Efficient Cartogram Generation
• Donald H. House, Christopher J. Kocmoud:
  • Constraint-Based Continuous Cartogram Overview
  • Constraint-Based Continuous Cartogram Method
• Michael T. Gastner:
  • Diffusion-Based Method for Producing Density-Equalizing Maps
• Waldo R. Tobler:
  • Pseudo-Cartograms

The Interactive Cartogram-project has set its goal to provide a basic framework for creating and processing Cartograms of different shape file formats and with different Cartogram algorithms. With the implementation of faster, iterativ creation algorithms user interaction should be made possible so that a time series from one Cartogram to another can be displayed on-the-fly.