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The document presents findings from the 46th annual summer school of the Society of Cartographers, focusing on the World Population Atlas and innovative cartographic techniques such as gridded country cartograms for equal-population representation. It highlights various data sources and projects, including maps of megacities and happiness indexes, as well as key visual data from NASA and ESRI. The author, Benjamin D. Hennig, invites further interaction and provides links to additional resources on his research website.
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- 1. Benjamin D. Hennig,University of Sheffield 46th Annual Summer School of the Society of Cartographers, Manchester / UK, 9. September 2010
- 2. The World PopulationAtlas http://www.worldpopulationatlas.org/
- 3. Gridded country cartograms: Anew geographic projection?
- 4. Creating a newprojection 7
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- 7. From equal-area toequal-population
- 9. Extending the view:An equal-population planet
- 10. More than justanother cartogram Map source: IGU Megacity Task Force http://www.megacities.uni-koeln.de/
- 11. A (Un)Happy Planet Map source: New Economics Foundation http://www.happyplanetindex.org/
- 12. The Earth atNight Image Source: NASA
- 13. World Topography Data Source: ESRI
- 14. • Questions? Comments? Contact me at: [email protected] • More maps and this presentation are on my research website: http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/ Thanks for your attention! This work is funded by the Leverhulme Trust