Andy Woodruff  · Cartographer | Blog

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Why are choropleth Mercator maps bad? Because we said so.

12 April 2013 tagged choropleth, map projections, mercator with 2 comments

The other day I was speaking to a non-map person about the problems with choropleth mapping on the Mercator projection and went looking for a link to something that could explain it more clearly than my bumbling self. It became a familiar exercise, because I’ve done this before: there’s hardly anything out there on the […]