Sunday, May 06, 2007

Metal Mapping: The First Metal Cartogram?

I give you... in the name of procrastination and, of course, metal... what I might wager to say is the first (ever?) metal cartogram. For your viewing pleasure...
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Each country is distorted so that its relative area is proportional to the number of metal bands registered to it on Encylopedia Metallum. Created using Adrian Herzog's excellent mediocre Mapresso cartogram applet.

What is a cartogram?

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