Hi dassouki, > Can the following map types be done with QGIS or any other software: > > http://www.worldmapper.org/countrycartograms/cartograms/world.jpg : > Distorted map based on field values The above is actually an area-cartogram, and yes using the cartogram creator plugin (should be working, if not, let me know).
> http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/carbonatlas.pdf > : Cartogram Possibly using the diagram overlay (and some post-processing in inkscape or other vector graphics package)? > http://www.girardin.org/fabien/blog/wp-content/_images_maps_peopleonthemove_groot.jpg > : Separated polygons No, but have a look at R for this type of thing. It would probably be relatively simple, you should just have to figure out how to scale the individual features (lot's of cartogram algorithms out there for this type of application). Carson -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth, http://www.carsonfarmer.com/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
