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Graham Jones is a land-use planner, technical author and consultant. He operates primarily in the field of leisure geography, but it is his love for all things map-related that led him into working with GIS. He uses GIS as part of his own project work for clients, as well as for other consultancies who require this service.

Traffic Accidents - again!!

12/2/2016

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Now this is interesting (to me at any rate). I've mentioned cartograms in a previous blog, and I've produced this to show how England and its regions are distorted if size of regions is scaled to population per traffic accident. The numbers on the map show the estimated population per each recorded traffic accident in each region.
Sorry for the quality of the grid lines, but have tried to minimise the file size- they do help to emphasise the distortion.

At this level the pockets of rural mayhem are obscured, and the Boris Bus and the Chelsea Tractor rule supreme!

​Acknowledgements here not just to Government open source data, but also to the creators of 'Scapetoad': a genius bit of free software.

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