Cartograms required

[AndrewHansford]

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.

[TomGross]

 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

[AndrewHansford]

As a Script add in, it should come standard

[JosephKerski]

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-...

and then, at the regional / state level:

http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2009/10/29/exploring-data-using-cartograms-within-...

--Joseph Kerski, Esri Education Team

[Josef_Strobl]

 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

[OrlandoRodriguez]

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

[TimoWidbom]

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

[JJWise]

Yes to cartograms.

[JacobFougstrupNicolajsen]

Yes please!

[FourCornersMapping]

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?

[JosephKerski]

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