{"id":699,"date":"2010-02-22T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=699"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:48:36","slug":"how-to-make-gridded-cartograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Gridded cartogram tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/worldmapper\/yet-another-population-cartogram-creating-gridded-cartograms-using-arcgis-and-scapetoad\" target=\"_blank\">short slideshow<\/a> showing the basic steps that are needed to do your own gridded population cartograms (with a quite rough 1 degree grid &#8211; good for starting with this whole thing). Software needed for this simple click-through tutorial are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/arcgis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ArcGIS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chorogram.choros.ch\/scapetoad\/\" target=\"_blank\">ScapeToad<\/a>. If you want to go one step further, I&#8217;d recommend using the ArcScript <a href=\"http:\/\/arcscripts.esri.com\/details.asp?dbid=15638\" target=\"_blank\">Cartogram Geoprocessing Tool by Tom Gross<\/a>, even though this is not featured in this demo:<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/17234356\" width=\"597\" height=\"486\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">The tutorial was given in October 2009 to students of the Module GEO6016 Data, Visualisation and GIS in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sasi.group.shef.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSc in Social and Spatial Inequalities<\/a> at the University of Sheffield.<\/div>\n<p><em>The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. 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