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Web Cartography
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Web Cartography

by Ian Muehlenhaus
December 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
262 pages
8h 5m
English
CRC Press
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148 Web Cartography: Map Design for Interactive and Mobile Devices
combinations found on Color Brewer (discussed and referenced in Chapter5),
never use hue to represent data on maps representing quantitative values.
Data Classification
Most choropleth maps classify data. Data classication is the process of ana-
lyzing the distribution of values in a dataset and grouping them based on
their location in a histogram. Each group is then assigned a color specica-
tion for representation on the map. Choropleth maps should typically have
between three and ve classes. In most cases, using more than ve classes
makes it nearly impossible for humans to ...
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