Tim Warr’s Blog

A cool new book, The Atlas of the Real World by Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford (published by Thames & Hudson), has a whole new series of cartograms.  Although using cartograms for representing demographic (and other) information is nothing new, the visual impact and qulaity of these are awesome.  I would love to know what software and processes they are using (I am assuming it is automated).

More info is on the CR Blog and Mark Easton’s Blog.

Thanks to Nick Wade for finding this.

Update

I have now noticed that these are done by http://www.worldmapper.org, using “Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps“.