Harris, Richard and Charlton, Martin and Brunsdon, Chris and Manley, David (2017) Balancing visibility and distortion: Remapping the results of the 2015 UK General Election. Environment and Planning A, 49 (9). pp. 1945-1947. ISSN 1472-3409

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Abstract

A perennial problem when mapping demographic, social and other area-based data is that rural areas usually are of greater physical size than their urban counterparts. The consequence is that the places with fewest people dominate the map space, whereas those with the most are rendered small and illegible. A classic example is what happens if the results of the UK election are mapped, in this case for the 2015 election. As the left side of Figure 1 reveals, the outcomes for London visually are unintelligible.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Mapping; United Kingdom; Election results; 2015;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
Item ID:	11377
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17708439
Depositing User:	Martin Charlton
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2019 17:13
Journal or Publication Title:	Environment and Planning A
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	https://journals.sagepub.com
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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