[GRASS-user] V.extrude... confused

[Hamish]

David Sampson wrote:
> I want to make a 3d map of canada where each province is extruded
> base don certain values.  My provinces shape looked like it was being
> hassled so I thought ok, keep it simple.


Why merely hassle when you can seriously warp? A bit more radical than
the 3D bar chart thing are Cartograms:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram
  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
  http://www.worldmapper.org/
  http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=163
  http://pthbb.org/natural/footprint/
  http://mapresso.com/

for calmer ideas see also:
  http://industry.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/25/233215



Hamish



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