Comments on: 1911 Cartogram: “Apportionment Map”

By: More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938 « Making Maps: DIY Cartography

More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938 « Making Maps: DIY Cartography — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:45:01 +0000

[...] scales geographic areas to some value other than geographic area. In two previous blog posts, 1911 Cartogram: “Apportionment Map” and 1923 Patented Cartogram, a few old-school cartograms were resurrected from musty old [...]

By: 1923 Patented Cartogram « Making Maps: DIY Cartography

1923 Patented Cartogram « Making Maps: DIY Cartography — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:20:11 +0000

[...] was published in his book Charts and Graphs (1923) and patented in 1925. As with the 1911 “Apportioinment Map” noted in an earlier post, the term “cartogram” was not used by Karsten to describe this [...]

By: indiemaps.com/blog » Early cartograms

indiemaps.com/blog » Early cartograms — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:40:35 +0000

[...] John Krygier dug this one up — perhaps the first American cartogram, and an interesting example of the [...]

By: Sara Fabrikant

Sara Fabrikant — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:09:19 +0000

Hi John

Zachary is correct, Levasseur is definitively earlier than Bailey.
Here is a graphic example of Levasseur’s work

http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~sara/pub/levasseur_cartogram.jpg

Figure is taken from:

Funkhouser, H.G. (1937). Osiris, Vol. 3, on page 35, and described on p. 355. According to Funkhouser, the cartogram is from a geography text book by Levasseur titled:

La France, avec ses Colonies. Contenant 174 cartes, coupes et figures explicatives insérées dans le texte, Paris, 1868, 1875.

(France and its colonies, including 174 maps, illustrations and figures…)

Moreover, probably H. Haak and H. Wiechel (1903) is also earlier than Bailey! As I have written here:
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sara/html/research/pubs/fabrikant_cagis03.pdf

By: indiemaps.com/blog » cartogram blog roundup

indiemaps.com/blog » cartogram blog roundup — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:05:26 +0000

[...] John Krygier displays a true value-by-area cartogram older than any I’d seen prior. As I note in a comment on [...]

By: John Krygier

John Krygier — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:07:36 +0000

I’ve not seen any “value-by-area” cartograms earlier than the 1911 “apportionment” map in this posting. The term was certainly used earlier, but it seems to have referred to a much broader category of maps, as the other examples in the posting, and ubikcan’s comments attest.

The “Grundy’s Map” is in the Tobler article linked to the posting.

If anyone has an earlier example, maybe someone with access to European sources, do let me know.

By: Zachary Johnson

Zachary Johnson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:49:43 +0000

Very interesting! Most scholars I’ve read track the earliest true value-by-area cartograms to either Levasseur (in the late 19th C.) or Hans Wiechel (in the 1900s). The former, though, appear to just be diagrammatic maps, and the latter aren’t reprinted anywhere that I can find. I was convinced, after reading Tobler’s “Thirty Five Years of Computer Cartograms”, that the prize for first cartogram went to “Grundy’s Map of the United States” from 1929 (published in the Washington Post at the time, and reprinted by Tobler). But this precedes it by almost 20 years!

I’m curious, have you (or anybody) seen earlier examples of true value-by-area cartograms?

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Electoral Map Daily Compass: NASCAR Dads for Hillary « The Electoral Map — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:09:03 +0000

[...] history of cartograms, which is the process of skewing geographic areas to fit data sets. [Making Maps, h/t The Map [...]

By: ubikcan

ubikcan — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:18:31 +0000

Early writers (1910s-1930s) on thematic maps such as J.K. Wright often reserved the word “cartogram” for maps that were more chart or icon-like (as in the Bowman example you provide). They seemed to feel that they weren’t quite full or real maps.

By: tsinn

tsinn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:15:30 +0000

Great posts. I like your use of historical maps, showing the way cartography has stayed consistent or evolved as we have moved almost exclusively to using computers for mapmaking.

-Tim-
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