Intrigued by your question, I poked around. It look like it's called an area cartogram. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram
Searching yields some potential starting points for software: http://scapetoad.choros.ch/ http://indiemaps.com/blog/2008/03/free-cartograms/ Allan On May 20, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Miles Rose <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Miles Rose <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:36 PM Subject: I have an idea and need some help here To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> do you remember the million pixel web page? very smart, the developer sold each pixel for $1 and sold $1mm worth of advertising. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ I want to do a pixel map for a defined area and shape which will expand based on the number of companies who are located in specific parts of the map. for example, the company location, lat/long would put them in a specific location in a county and the more companies the larger the county would become. If you think of the steinberg New Yorker Map https://www.google.com/search?q=steinberg+new+yorker+map&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=HF6aUZ67FsHC4AObs4CgDg&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1047&bih=504#imgrc=HWKgEk3SnZFsMM%3A%3BrN7tvGp7mCmyMM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmappery.com%252Fmaps%252FA-View-of-World-from-9th-Avenue-Map.mediumthumb.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmappery.com%252FA-View-of-World-from-9th-Avenue-Map%3B444%3B600 has anyone done this? is there any code base? can someone on the list do it? any advice appreciated
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