Dorling Danny, Barford Anna, Newman Mark
Sheffield University, UK.
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2006 Sep-Oct;12(5):757-64. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.202.
This paper describes the Worldmapper Project, which makes use of novel visualization techniques to represent a broad variety of social and economic data about the countries of the world. The goal of the project is to use the map projections known as cartograms to depict comparisons and relations between different territories, and its execution raises many interesting design challenges that were not all apparent at the outset. We discuss the approaches taken towards these challenges, some of which may have considerably broad application. We conclude by commenting on the positive initial response to the worldmapper images published on the web, which we believe is due, at least in part, to the particular effectiveness of the cartogram as a tool for communicating quantitative geographic data.
本文介绍了“世界映射器计划”，该计划利用新颖的可视化技术来呈现有关世界各国的广泛社会和经济数据。该项目的目标是使用被称为变形地图的地图投影来描绘不同地区之间的比较和关系，其实施引发了许多有趣的设计挑战，这些挑战在一开始并非都显而易见。我们讨论了应对这些挑战所采取的方法，其中一些方法可能具有相当广泛的应用。最后，我们对在网络上发布的世界映射器图像所获得的积极初步反响进行了评论，我们认为这至少部分归功于变形地图作为一种传达定量地理数据工具的特殊有效性。
