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The representation of data in a viewable medium or format

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Displaying point data to reflect time/age

If these buildings are packed in cities, you could use pie charts to depict the ratio of old and new buildings (or as many classes as you'd like to use). Imho, a heatmap should represent continuous p …
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How to create spatial tag clouds or "tag maps"?

This is Yahoo's Flash-based solution: http://tagmaps.research.yahoo.com/worldexplorer.php Too bad, the API link is broken.
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Fitting a word/tag cloud into geographic boundaries

Tagxedo looks good. Too bad it uses Silverlight.
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Visualize text file with location info and intensity

GDAL doesn't have it's own viewer as far as I know. But there are many GIS using GDAL, for example QGIS. How about using QGIS Delimited Text Layer plugin? It will load every line as a point with all …
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What's a good library for displaying many small maps on a web page

Actually, you don't need OpenLayers - or any other library - for the small maps (like the ones on the top of your example). They are purely static (no panning/zooming/etc) and thus can be simple image …
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What is the point of standard symbology?

I guess the idea is that you don't have to make anything up and if your "boss" askes why something looks the way it does, you can just point him to "the standard".
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How to adjust the granularity of a heat map in QGIS?

From what I can see in the pictures you posted, there is not much variation in the heatmap raster. Try decreasing the radius value to better preserve local variations. Update: Without seeing your …
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Comparing two spatial point patterns?

A simple and fast approach could be to create heatmaps and a difference map of those two heatmaps. Related: How to build effective heat-maps?
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Styling road maps with QGIS?

In Tomtom data for example, you have an attribute called frc that can be used to classify roads. The following setup will create a GoogleMaps-style roadmap with different styles for different zoom lev …
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Visualising WKT geometry string in QGIS

Try the "QuickWKT" Plugin (see the official page: https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickWKT/).
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Displaying overlapping lines in QGIS

You can use an offset for one of the two routes. You find the option for each line style.
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Curved point-to-point "route maps"

Creating great circles could give you the desired effect. Maybe something like discussed on http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2008-February/018620.html Update: I've followed up on thi …
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