Morphing Romania and the Moldova Province

Authors

  • Micheline Cosinschi Faculté des Géosciences et de l’environnement, Institut de Géographie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Keywords:

Map, area cartogram, cartogram, anamorphic cartogram, cartographic transformation, thematic cartography, isodemographic map, Romania, Moldova.

Abstract

Morphing Romania and the Moldova Province gives a short insight of cartograms. Digital cartograms provide potential to move away from classical visualization of geographical data and benefit of new understanding of our world. They introduce a human vision instead of a planimetric one. By applying the Gastner-Newman algorithm for generating density-equalising cartograms to Romania and its Moldova province we can discuss the making of cartograms in general.

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Published

2012-08-04

Issue

Vol. 34 (2012)

Section

Articles