Monday, April 8, 2013

Proportional Circle Map

http://leistiar.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/proportional-symbols-map-adobe-illustrator/
This map, from an educational cartography site, is an example of a proportional circle map. The study of US oil consumption is represented here in circles of various size. The smaller the circle the less amount of barrels of oil per year the people of that state consumed. This type of map makes it easy to understand which states consume the most oil just by noting and comparing the size of the circles representing them. 

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