Thursday, April 22, 2010

Cartogram

A Cartogram is a cartographic technique that alters a map to enlarge or reduce certain zones based on the data. These distortions help to further along the point that the color shades may not be good enough alone for. The above map is of the percentages of threatened and endangered amphibians in the world.
http://amphibiaweb.org/amphibian/cartograms/

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