Vincent Borghi wrote: > Hello, > > The stack of bars you suggest is indeed a very good > visual representation that is OK for a lot of applications. > However, it seems inappropriate for other applications, > where more than a few items are to be shown > at a single location: imagine you have dozens of items at a location: > in this case, one bar per item would make a too high stack. > > Thus: it seems there is not a unique representation that would > be OK for all applications... > > PS: A variant of your suggestion could also be interesting: a variant > where the individual bars have a variable thickness so that the stacks > (the map markers) have always the same height... We can also specify a maximum height of the stacks, say, 100 pixels, and then scale everything relative to that and eliminate the gaps between the bars.
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