These maps are a national obsession, and they have a long history, but they’re also deeply flawed. You can see why in the map below, which shows the results from the 2012 election.

Fortunately, there’s a solution: the cartogram, where the area of spaces on a map is determined by a variable other than geographic area. In this case, it’s population: Make the most populous ...

A cartogram is a kind of map that distorts geographical areas based on some variable. The electoral map below shows states portrayed as squares sized by their number of electoral votes.

A cartogram of votes cast, state by state. By Nick McClellan Tuesday delivered President Barack Obama to the White House for a second term, but fewer voters turned out in this presidential ...

When most people need to get somewhere these days and if they aren't sure how to do that, they might turn to applications like Google Maps or HERE Maps to ...

Cartogram has reeled in more cash to help expand the use of its mapping technology.. The Seattle-area startup just raised another round of funding from investors like Cyanogen founder Steve Kondik ...

Every map makes compromises. The Mercator projection, which sacrifices accurate geography for nice, straight lines, is a classic example. Electoral cartograms, which visualize the political ...

‘Google Maps on steroids’: Cartogram raises $325K for indoor mapping platform. by Taylor Soper on August 24, 2015 at 10:59 am August 24, 2015 at 12:04 pm. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

Using a Dorling cartogram scaled by resident population size, neighbourhoods in the first decile now take up 41% of the map's area, and the larger, less deprived neighbourhoods (in light blue ...