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Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art<\/a> is an exhibition showing “80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day”. The free exhibition still goes until 19 September 2010 at the The British Library in London.<\/p>\n

The following map has been shown by Danny Dorling in one of the accompanying events<\/a>. The lecture Changing perspectives: mapping global injustice by changing the view?<\/em> introduced a series of maps using the gridded cartogram technique<\/a>, some of which were shown to a wider audience for the first time. This map is a reprojection of the world according to the population distribution based on an equally distributed grid. The grid size in this map equals a 0.25\u00b0 raster on a conventional map and a composite satellite raster image of the world has been transformed accordingly, so that the map reflects the population distribution in relation to the landscapes on which people are living:<\/p>\n

\"Composite<\/a>
\n(click for larger view)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n


\nAll maps that were presented in the talk are shown on Slideshare<\/a> (see below), and the full lecture can also be watched as a Flash-based video presentation:<\/p>\n

\"Changing<\/a>
\n(click to open presentation)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThe content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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