Download e-book for iPad: Rediscovering the World: Map Transformations of Human and by Benjamin Hennig

‘We desire new maps’ is the valuable declare made during this booklet. In a global more and more prompted by means of human motion and interplay, we nonetheless count seriously on mapping recommendations that have been invented to find unknown areas and discover our actual surroundings. even supposing the conventional notion of a map is presently being revived in electronic environments, the underlying mapping methods usually are not in a position to making the complexity of human-environment relationships totally understandable. ranging from how humans might be wear the map in new methods, this e-book outlines the improvement of a singular procedure that stretches a map in keeping with quantitative information, akin to inhabitants. the hot maps are referred to as gridded cartograms because the process is predicated on a grid onto which a density-equalising cartogram approach is utilized. The underlying grid guarantees the maintenance of a correct geographic connection with the true international. It permits the gridded cartograms for use as basemaps onto which different info might be mapped. this is applicable to any geographic info from the human and actual surroundings. As established during the examples offered during this e-book, the recent maps usually are not restricted to displaying inhabitants as a defining point for the transformation, yet can express any quantitative geospatial information, equivalent to wealth, rainfall, or perhaps the environmental stipulations of the oceans. the hot maps additionally paintings at numerous scales, from an international standpoint right down to the size of city environments. The gridded cartogram process is proposed as a brand new worldwide and native map projection that may be a workable and flexible substitute to different traditional map projections. The maps in accordance with this method open up quite a lot of power new functions to rediscover the various geographies of the area. they've got the aptitude to permit us to realize new views via specific cartographic depictions.