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MODERN MAPPING
Cartogram 2008
DIGITAL
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, SHEFFIELD, UK
WORLDMAPPER As statistical data on global issues becomes more complex
developments. A cartogram uses a single variable subject
and digital technologies generate increasingly innovative
that can be measured statistically, such as population or
and versatile mapping techniques, the cartogram has
immigration, which is then mapped on to land areas to
become one of the most important recent cartographical
convey an image of its proportional distribution.