Discussion: Marginally digressive: cartograms
in: Orienteering; Off-Course
May 9, 2008 6:21 PM
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Sorry that this is somewhat tangential to orienteering, although it does relate to maps, reality and travel, and since there are strangemaps fans and cartographers here...
A while ago I saw a cartogram of the USA that displayed 'distance' as a function of air travel time rather than miles. As you might imagine, it squashed the northeast US bunched up bits of California with it and ballooned out the midwest and Idaho. I want to use it in a talk I'm giving tomorrow (about dialect distances vs geogrphical amongst other things) but I can't find it anywhere. I thought I saw it on strangemaps.wordpress.com but looking through the archives didn't find it.
A further question: anyone know a (preferably free) program that'll do this sort of multidimensional cartographic scaling?
A while ago I saw a cartogram of the USA that displayed 'distance' as a function of air travel time rather than miles. As you might imagine, it squashed the northeast US bunched up bits of California with it and ballooned out the midwest and Idaho. I want to use it in a talk I'm giving tomorrow (about dialect distances vs geogrphical amongst other things) but I can't find it anywhere. I thought I saw it on strangemaps.wordpress.com but looking through the archives didn't find it.
A further question: anyone know a (preferably free) program that'll do this sort of multidimensional cartographic scaling?
May 9, 2008 6:53 PM
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bubo:
The website 'visualcomplexity.com' shows a few examples of similar maps:
Japan Travel Time
Czechoslovakia Air Route Map (1933)
USA Air Traffic
This may not be what you´re actually after, but keep looking :)
Japan Travel Time
Czechoslovakia Air Route Map (1933)
USA Air Traffic
This may not be what you´re actually after, but keep looking :)
May 9, 2008 6:56 PM
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bubo:
From the same source as above I just found this link:
Time Travel.
Just as an added piece of interest this webpage also offers quite a bit of material on orienteering (mostly in Swedish though).
...and more Travel Time Tube Map
Time Travel.
Just as an added piece of interest this webpage also offers quite a bit of material on orienteering (mostly in Swedish though).
...and more Travel Time Tube Map
May 9, 2008 7:08 PM
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bubo:
...there seems to be a lot of this going on in London with surroundings...
May 9, 2008 8:16 PM
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As a professional cartographer, trained geographer, and active orienteer, a line from the Princeton U link made me squirm: "The INA believes that geography is becoming increasingly irrelevant..."
Yowza.
Yowza.
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