A Cartogram is Worth a Thousand Maps: The Multi-faced Image of Our Earth

Renato Casagrandi ()
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Renato Casagrandi: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

A chapter in The Visual Language of Technique, 2015, pp 115-118 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Process-dependent representations of our Planet have the power of clarifying us immediately what is going on and where it is happening. The use of cartograms instead of traditional colored maps makes evident that unevenness is the law, rather than the exception, in many important issues for humans and other species.

Keywords: Suitable Land; Chinese Word; Sharp Border; Clump Distribution; Mercator Projection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05326-4_13

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