Presentation by Benjamin David Hennig for the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society of Cartographers, Manchester/UK, 9th September 2010. Read more at http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/?p=832

1. Benjamin D. Hennig, University of Sheffield
46th Annual Summer School of the Society of Cartographers, Manchester / UK, 9. September 2010

2. The World Population Atlas
http://www.worldpopulationatlas.org/

3. Gridded country cartograms:
A new geographic projection?

4. Creating a new projection
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5. Behind the Grid

6. Behind the Grid

7. From equal-area to equal-population

9. Extending the view: An equal-population planet

10. More than just another cartogram
Map source: IGU Megacity Task Force
http://www.megacities.uni-koeln.de/

11. A (Un)Happy Planet
Map source: New Economics Foundation
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/

12. The Earth at Night
Image Source: NASA

13. World Topography
Data Source: ESRI

14. • Questions? Comments?
Contact me at: b.hennig@worldmapper.org
• More maps and this presentation are on my research website:
http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/
Thanks for
your attention!
This work is funded by the Leverhulme Trust