idea Cartograms required in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Cartograms required

AndrewHansford — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:16:52 GMT

Cartograms are something that appear to have been missing from ArcGIS for quite sometime. Cartograms are more of a Cartographic type application. I consider though that some of the changes to the ArcGIS suite have been more focused on Cartographic aspects. So i would quite like to see this ability come to ArcGIS 10.

Re: Cartograms required

TomGross — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:40:35 GMT

There is a Cartogram Geoprocessing Tool on ArcScripts. It will work on ArcGIS 9.3 and 9.3.1.

http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=15638

Re: Cartograms required

AndrewHansford — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:26:38 GMT

As a Script add in, it should come standard

Re: Cartograms required

JosephKerski — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:32:56 GMT

I wrote 2 blog entries about using Cartograms in ArcMap for teaching and research purposes:

First:
http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2009/10/16/exploring-data-using-cartograms-within-arcgis-desktop.aspx

and then, at the regional / state level:

http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2009/10/29/exploring-data-using-cartograms-within-arcgis-desktop-at-the-county-and-state-scale.aspx

--Joseph Kerski, Esri Education Team

Re: Cartograms required

Josef_Strobl — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:46:25 GMT

This request might or might not refer to the English language use of 'cartogram' .. which does not correspond to e.g. Karto(dia)gramm .. js

Re: Cartograms required

OrlandoRodriguez — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:05:46 GMT

ArcGIS really needs this functionality. There is a script from 2009 that creates cartograms and it kinda works sometimes.

Re: Cartograms required

TimoWidbom — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:17:02 GMT

Also non-contiguous cartograms (Dorling cartograms) are needed!

Re: Cartograms required

JJWise — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:36:35 GMT

Yes to cartograms.

Re: Cartograms required

JacobFougstrupNicolajsen — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 08:45:15 GMT

Yes please!

Re: Cartograms required

FourCornersMapping — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 15:29:49 GMT

Non-contiguous cartograms please! @JosephKerski do you by any chance have an update to your blog posts? I couldn't find them. Did you discuss non-contiguous cartograms, like Ken Fields' entry here?

Re: Cartograms required

JosephKerski — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:22:55 GMT

Hi @FourCornersMapping ! I am teaching a GIS institute workshop in the 4 Corners in June ! Still no update on cartograms in ArcGIS Pro but I will re-nudge. On the non contiguous cartograms, this is what I use for students to dig into in my courses: https://www.bouncymaps.com/#!/bouncymaps/world/-2102779804 They have some oddities but they are suitable with the amount of time I allot for them in my courses and they meet the goals I have.

For contiguous until we get the ArcGIS Pro capability I am using www.worldmapper.org

--Joseph K

Re: Cartograms required

FourCornersMapping — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:12:23 GMT

@JosephKerski bouncy maps is exactly what I'd like to do. I ended up fiddling with symbol representations in ArcMap and resizing individual polygons based on a ratio (Colorado River Basin allotments for the seven western states and Mexico) and then moving them around manually. This is almost exactly what I need, but is time-consuming and it is not possible to do it as a "batch" operation. I can import to Pro though, and it will work for now! For contiguous cartograms, I installed the cartogram geoprocessing tool for ArcMap and it works well.

Re: Cartograms required

AnneKearsley — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:42:15 GMT

With the census data being released soon in the UK, It would be really useful for there is to be a Cartogram tool both contiguous and not contiguous use in ArcGIS Pro. Otherwise we have to keep supporting Arc desktop until this visualisation becomes available.

Re: Cartograms required

Pappelbaum81 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:30:24 GMT

I'm certainly not the only one with this request:

Could anyone please update the CarolAPL "Cartogram geoprocessing tool"?

URL: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d348614c97264ae19b0311019a5f2276

I'm worried, (Anno 2023) this tool/script is still not working in ArcGIS Pro?!

As far as I've looked into, there is no other tool for the ArcGIS Toolbox (in ArcGIS Pro) to create anamorphic cartograms yet. 😞

best regards,
Stefan

Re: Cartograms required - Status changed to: In Product Plan

CraigWilliams — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:58 GMT

The Generate Contiguous Cartogram tool was added at ArcGIS Pro 3.5. There are a few other requests in this idea about non-contiguous and Dorling cartograms. We are collecting requirements on these.

See also this blog post Ken Field and Chris Wesson about the addition: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/marmite-maps-now-available-in-arcgis-pro