[mapserver-users] Mapserver & Cartograms

[Christian Kaiser]

Sorry for the late answer.

We did release today a new Java application for cartogram creation 
(<http://chorogram.choros.ch/scapetoad>). I think the main problem for 
an implementation in an online MapServer application will be the 
computation time needed to create the cartogram. Technically, it should 
be possible to find a solution using one of the known algorithms. But 
you will have to handle a computation process which can take several 
minutes...

Christian




schwarzr at grid.unep.ch wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> do you know of anybody or any mechanism to implement some cartogram 
> functionality into mapserver? You'll perhaps know the worldmapper site - nice 
> examples. We've developed a couple of other ones for a specific project; and 
> I thought about using an exisiting mapserver site to draw these kind of 
> cartograms dynamically. That would be really cool...
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> Stef
>
>
>
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