Abstract
A continuous area cartogram is a transformed map in which the map regions are resized relative to the geographic distribution of a data set. It is expected to be an effective visualization tool for statistical data in the GIS era.
The construction of continuous area cartograms is an ill-posed problem, for it is impossible to decide the region's shape by its size. Although many solutions have been proposed, none of these are mathematically clear, user-friendly, or computable in short calculation times.
We propose a simple, practicable, and fast algorithm which solves these exiting problems in this paper.
