REPRESENTATION OF PREFECTURES CENSUS DATA ON WIND POWER BY CARTOGRAM

Abstract

In order to promote the use of renewable energy in Japan, the author showed the census data on wind power of prefectures in Japan as the cartogram maps in a representation method. The census data includes the wind power potential, the current capacity of wind turbine, the electrical demand, and so on. The representation method with cartogram is able to express as the difference between prefectures and is also characterized as deformed map size and shape from those in normal map. This presentation method is effective for making “visualization”, “easy understanding”, and “implementation”.