[Qgis-user] Distorted Maps

[Carson Farmer]

Hi dassouki,

> Can the following map types be done with QGIS or any other software:
>
> http://www.worldmapper.org/countrycartograms/cartograms/world.jpg :
> Distorted map based on field values
The above is actually an area-cartogram, and yes using the cartogram
creator plugin (should be working, if not, let me know).

> http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/carbonatlas.pdf
> : Cartogram
Possibly using the diagram overlay (and some post-processing in
inkscape or other vector graphics package)?

> http://www.girardin.org/fabien/blog/wp-content/_images_maps_peopleonthemove_groot.jpg
> : Separated polygons
No, but have a look at R for this type of thing.
It would probably be relatively simple, you should just have to figure
out how to scale the individual features (lot's of cartogram
algorithms out there for this type of application).

Carson

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Carson J. Q. Farmer
ISSP Doctoral Fellow
National Centre for Geocomputation
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
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