Geographic Perspectives

The Python script is attached to this message. To run it:

1. unzip into an empty directory
2. copy your shapefile (all the bits) into the directory where pyCartogram.py lives
3. from the command-line, enter something like this:

python pyCartogram.py inshpfile.shp outshpfile.shp FIELDNAME 5

This generates a contiguous cartogram from inshpfile.shp based on the value in field 'FIELDNAME' after five iterations and saves it as outshpfile.shp.