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Gallery: Choropleth map + Map

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Benefits & pitfalls

Benefits & pitfalls: choropleth map

  • Shaded maps can emphasise large areas much more than small ones - for example highlighting rural areas over urban, if fixed population areas such as Super Output Areas are shown. Consider providing an alternate mode in which values are represented by circles, or values are scaled by the area size (ie showing density).

How to create your own

Create your own: choropleth map

  • Chloropleth maps can be created in a range of desktop GIS applications such as MapInfo and ArcGIS.

Rectangular choropleth cartogram of people with HIV

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A world-view cartogram for World's Aids Day. The size of a region indicates the number of people infected with HIV - each square being 10,000 people infected. The colour of a region indicates the rate of infection, in relation to the global average.
Average rating: 10 (3 votes)

Maps showing overlap between two indicators

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The three maps show Local Authorities with (1) high levels of BNP membership, (2) large non-white populations, and (3) both high levels of BNP membership and large non-white populations. The use of the blue, red and overlap purple colours make this a geographic "Venn diagram", allowing viewers to quickly identify areas with high levels on two separate datasets.
Average rating: 9 (2 votes)

Cartogram (distorted map) showing recorded crime counts

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The two maps both show levels of recorded crime across Leicestershire at Lower Super Output Area LSOA level (with darker red representing higher levels of crime). The map on the left shows the actual geography of the LSOA areas across the County. LSOA areas each contain roughly 1,500 residents - larger areas on this map therefore represent rural areas with lower-density population. The cartogram, or distorted, map on the right shows the same data at LSOA level, but represents each of the LSOAs as a fixed size hexagon. This avoids the problem of over-emphasising the more rural LSOAs, seen on the left. However, it becomes more difficult for users to understand which areas are which - so a numbered key is used to identify particular areas.
Average rating: 9.1 (7 votes)

Multipanel map

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This map presents information about the murder rate in the United States during 1976. It shows the rates in six intervals, relying on several smaller maps to do that.
Unrated
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Geographic cluster analysis

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This chart is designed to aid the interpretation of the results of a cluster analysis, a statistical technique used to discover the underlying structure of a set of observations. The data set contains dummy variables.
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Interactive cartogram

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Local Council election results 1974 to 2008.
Average rating: 4.5 (2 votes)

Flow map showing US and China imports and exports

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Flow map showing US and China imports and exports.
Average rating: 5.8 (9 votes)

Housing condition map

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1904 map showing housing conditions in Manchester and Salford.
Average rating: 8 (3 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Time change map

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Map of UK by parliamentary constituency showing percentage of population claiming JSA. Slider at bottom allows users to choose a time point.
Average rating: 9.5 (2 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Timeseries map

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Votes by state for all US presidential elections.
Average rating: 6 (1 votes)
Visual types:

map, table, choropleth map

Maptube Google map overlay

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IMD 2004 ranks for London.
Unrated
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Maptube Google map overlay

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Mood map showing sentiment about job security in East of England (as gathered from online BBC survey).
Average rating: 8 (1 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Compound map with selectable doughnut chart

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Breakdown by area of under-18 profiles on national DNA database.
Average rating: 4.5 (3 votes)

Layered map

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Dan Vicker's Output Area Classification (OAC) layered on top of Google map using Maptube.
Unrated
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Map with accompanying table identifying areas on the map with the high/low scores

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Map showing the ratio of overseas migrants to internal migrants across Local Authority Districts in England.
Unrated
Visual types:

map, table, choropleth map

Split screen map

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Vehicle offences in Wiltshire at LSOA level.
Unrated
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Thematic map including area and hinterland

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The Vulnerable Localities index mapped across Stafford district. Red indicates a high score, green indicates a low score. Districts are ordered by those with the highest number of output areas with a VLI score above 200.
Average rating: 9.5 (2 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Cartogram thematic map (where areas are sized according to their population)

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Proportion of people claiming benefits in English cities, 2003.
Average rating: 2 (1 votes)

Accessibility map

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Roads in a local area within 500m of a postcode containing one or more shops where food is reasonably priced and which sell more than 8 kinds of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Average rating: 6.8 (4 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Thematic map with areal photo background

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Density of ethnic minority groups in Leeds.
Average rating: 7 (2 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Zoom-in Map

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Map of deprivation with zoom-ins for key areas.
Average rating: 10 (1 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map

Interactive map with detailed description

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Interactive Map enabling users to identify services and rank areas by decile (thematic mapping). Map contains significant description of variables used.
Average rating: 4.8 (4 votes)

Map (multi layer): Ageing population

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Map showing population trends and change in the old age population. To compare both impacts of population growth and aging population.
Unrated

Funnel plot and map

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Geowise InstantAtlas showing funnel plot alongside area map, bar chart and legends.
Average rating: 7 (4 votes)

Layered map

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Map of London to OAC, from Maptube.
Average rating: 6.2 (5 votes)
Visual types:

map, choropleth map