hi, the algorithm for creating such maps is described here: http://www.pnas.org/content/101/20/7499.abstract
The method is diffusion based. It uses density distribution of some attribute in space (2d area) to compute this maps (value per area). I don't think you can compute such maps from just distances between points. You would have to interpolate it into space (2d area) before you could use that algorithm I think. I'm shure the most of you guys know already about this: http://www.worldmapper.org/ But for the record here are some more of such maps. ;-) regards Christian Dan Brickley schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> There's a opensource java program ScapeToad that does these sort of >> transformations on shapefiles. I've only played with it a little, but >> it's pretty interesting. <http://chorogram.choros.ch/scapetoad/> >> > > Could something like this produce a map of Europe distorted to take into > account ease/cost of travel between cities? (or has anyone else done > this somehow) > > cheers, > > Dan > > -- > http://danbri.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
