论文标题
激发良好的实践来创建连续的区域制图图
Motivating Good Practices for the Creation of Contiguous Area Cartograms
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论文摘要
摄影图是地图，其中地区（例如国家或省份）区域与主题映射变量（例如人口或国内生产总值）成正比。如果制图将其保持在地理相邻区域连接，则称为连续。在过去的几年中，已经开发了几种网络工具来创建连续制图。但是，这些工具中的大多数不建议如何正确使用制图图。为了减轻这些缺点，我们试图通过我们最近开发的Web应用程序go-cart.io建立良好的实践。通过电子方式，可以帮助读者使用交互式图形。
Cartograms are maps in which the areas of regions (e.g., countries or provinces) are proportional to a thematic mapping variable (e.g., population or gross domestic product). A cartogram is called contiguous if it keeps geographically adjacent regions connected. Over the past few years, several web tools have been developed for the creation of contiguous cartograms. However, most of these tools do not advise how to use cartograms correctly. To mitigate these shortcomings, we attempt to establish good practices through our recently developed web application go-cart.io: (1) use cartograms to show numeric data that add up to an interpretable total, (2) present a cartogram alongside a conventional map that uses the same color scheme, (3) indicate whether the data for a region are missing, (4) include a legend so that readers can infer the magnitude of the mapping variable, (5) if a cartogram is presented electronically, assist readers with interactive graphics.
