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A method of illustrating data so it can be viewed and understood.

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Is there a name for deformation-based maps?

This is called a distance cartogram. Some add-ons for ArcGIS have been produced to create area cartograms. Mark Newman provides free GIS-independent software to implement his area cartogram method. …
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What kinds of line segments/edges require high accuracy in a true surface-of-the-ellipsoid r...

The question concerns what kinds of curves deserve an implicitly exact representation rather than a discretized approximation. …
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