prism maps – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Mon, 21 Nov 2016 01:51:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg prism maps – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 3D Election Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/11/3d-election-maps/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 01:51:55 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3438 More]]> Mapping U.S. election results by county and state is a bit different than mapping results by electoral or congressional district, because counties and states don’t have (roughly) equal populations. Choropleth maps are often used to show the margin of victory, but to show the raw vote total, some election cartographers are going 3D.

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Max Galka of Metrocosm has created an interactive 3D map of county-level results (above) using his Blueshift tool. The resulting map, called a prism map, uses height to show the number of votes cast in each county.

Here’s a similar 3D interactive map, but using state-level rather than county-level data, by Sketchfab member f3cr204. [Maps on the Web]

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