A new world atlas which concentrates on population rather than land mass has been published.
Researchers from the University of Sheffield created the online atlas of 200 maps that have been redrawn to show, at a glance, which cities are the largest, how all urban areas compare, and whether many or few people live in the countryside.
The images, which were created as part of a Leverhulme Trust project to remap the world and extend the Worldmapper project, have been created using population distribution data so viewers can understand how many people make up each nation.
The new world guides break with the 500-year tradition of conventional cartography which shows compass directions as straight lines.
Source: The Press Association (UK)
See Also: Access the New Maps using Worldmapper
We added a new series of maps which show grid-based cartograms showing each territory shape according to its population distribution. Those can be found at our new Country Cartograms. The territories can be selected via an interactive map or over a list of the new maps.
See Also: Worldmapper Home Page
Spend some time here, plenty of interesting and potentially useful resources.
From the “About” Worldmapper Page (Worth Reading)
This website contains 696 maps, with associated information and PDF ‘poster’ file. Each map relates to a particular subject. Click on the ‘Thumbnail Index’ which gives thumbnail previews of the maps, ‘Map Categories’ which is classified to see the choice, or a new option ‘A-Z Map Index’, and view a map and associated information. There is also a Site Map and Help page. The country cartograms contain 171 maps showing a population grid for each covered territory/region projected on a cartogram. More information on the country cartograms are explained on this info page.
