CartoGrammar

CartoGrammar的主要目的是提供易于使用（和可重复使用）的工具，用于生成和展示定制的自定义制图。其目的是通过建立在现有技术基础上，提供一套工具，使地图输出的生成、展示、可见性和长期管理变得容易实现。地图作为社会科学家的一种可视化和分析工具，具有广泛的吸引力和广泛的适用性。它们本身具有内在的优点，因为追求替代，更有效的算法证明。几十年来，它们一直是人类地理学家的中流砥柱（Tobler 2004）。然而，它们在广泛的社会科学学科中的应用仍然没有得到充分的利用，它们可以被视为《双城之战》和“地理学家专用”的工具。这是不幸的，有些自相矛盾的，因为它们越来越受主流欢迎，例如，在国家新闻报道和制作各种比较和分析广泛吸引力的期刊和流行网站（如worldmapper.org）中使用它们。部分原因是制作地图仍然需要昂贵的计算费用，而且用于制作地图的可用软件工具既不广为人知，无论是在功能上还是在操作环境上都是标准化的。所有这些都阻碍了社会科学学科的广泛采用（以及更广泛的社会接受度-尽管如所指出的，这些类型的可视化正变得越来越受欢迎-例如参见Guardians 2010选举结果交互式制图[http：//www.tagan.co.uk/politics/interactive/2010/apr/05/general-election-map-swingometer]或governmner赞助的dataviz站点[http：Tobler（2004年）对过去35年来地图的创建和使用方面的发展进行了有益的总结，包括早期参考的“下一波”的发展和生产的制图，如Gastner-Newman“密度均衡”算法，这将部署在服务建议here.in摘要，我们将建立：* 一个简单易用的网络服务和API，以制作用户自行制作的定制地图;* 一个利用该API提供机制的网站，以制作、储存和管理用户制作的地图;* 后端计算和存储能力，将消除制图制作的障碍，并允许其持久化和社区共享;* 一个“剪切和粘贴”风格JavaScript小部件，新手可以轻松部署，以在任何网站中提供自定义制图生成设施 * 制图用户和倡导者的跨学科社会科学社区。

The primary purpose of CartoGrammar is to provide readily usable (and reusable) tools for the generation and showcasing of bespoke custom cartograms. The aim is to deliver, by building on prior-art, a suite of tools that will make the generation, showcasing, visibility and long term curation of cartogram outputs readily achievable. Cartograms have broad appeal and wide applicability as both a visualistaion and an analytical tool for social scientists. They have intrinsic merit in their own right as the pursuit of alternative, more efficient algorithms testify. They have been a mainstay of human geographers for several decades (Tobler 2004). Yet their adoption across the broad range of social science disciplines remains under-exploited and they can be perceived as arcane and a 'geographers only' tool. This is unfortunate and somewhat paradoxical given their increasing mainstream popularity e.g. witnessed by their use in national press coverage and in the production of various comparative and analytical broad appeal Atlases and popular websites such as worldmapper.org.In part this is because cartograms remain computationally expensive to create and that the available software tools for their production are neither well known, standardised in a functionality nor in operating environment. All of this conspires to act as a barrier to wider adoption across a range of social science disciplines (and societal acceptance more broadly - although as noted, these types of visualisations are becoming increasingly popular - see for example the Guardians 2010 election results interactive cartogram [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2010/apr/05/general-election-map-swingometer] or the governmner sponsored dataviz site [http://www.improving-visualisation.org/] ), to which they have relevance.Tobler (2004), provides a useful summary of the developments in the creation and use of cartograms over the last thirty-five years, including an early reference to the 'next wave' in the development and production of cartograms such as the Gastner-Newman 'density equalising' algortihm which will be deployed in the service proposed here.in summary, we will build:* a simple, easy to use web service and API for the production of user generated bespoke custom cartograms;* a web site which will exploit that API to provide a mechanism for the production, storage and curation of user generated cartograms;* a backend compute and storage capacity that will remove the barriers to cartogram production and allow for their persistence and community sharing;* a 'cut & paste' style Javascript widget that novices can readily deploy to provide the custom cartogram generation facility into any web site* a cross-discipline social science community of cartogram users and advocates.