{"id":1788030,"date":"2019-11-01T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788030"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:41:15","slug":"mapping-the-canadian-election-results-technical-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/mapping-the-canadian-election-results-technical-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Canadian Election Results: Technical Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bothered by the widespread use of Web Mercator<\/a> by Canadian news outlets to show last week\u2019s election results, Kenneth Field has posted an article<\/a> that aims to address the problem. Static maps of Canada tend to use a conic projection like the Albers or the Lambert, and that\u2019s the case for print election maps as well. Online interactive maps, on the other hand, use off-the-shelf tools that use Web Mercator, which results in the sparsely populated territories looking even more enormous. But that doesn\u2019t have to be the case, says Ken, who shows us, with a few examples, how use ArcGIS Pro to create interactive maps using a conical projection.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mark Gargul writes in response to Ken\u2019s critique<\/a> of his cartogram of the election results<\/a>. Mark describes himself as an amateur and readily admits that other cartograms are \u201cclearly more aesthetically pleasing. On the other hand, I was going for something different with my cartogram\u2014specifically, to try to preserve riding-adjacency as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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@kennethfield<\/a>
… On the other hand, what I was going for was preserving, to the extent possible, riding adjacency. If Markham-Stouffville shared a border with Markham-Unionville on a real map, I wanted that border on the cartogram. Hence, the ugliness.<\/p>\n

— Mark Gargul (@GargulMark) October 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n