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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
13. User Scalable Graduated Circles with Google Maps
Author : Douglas Paziak
Published in: Online Maps with APIs and WebServices
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
The circle has long been a useful symbol for displaying quantitative data. Determining the proper size for the circles has remained a problem. If the circles are too small, differences in size are not readily apparent and a pattern is not evident. If the circles are too big, the overlap between the symbols will be excessive or too much of the map will be covered. A method is proposed here that allows the user to interactively adjust both the size and the opacity of the circle shading. The online version of the map, with all relevant code, is available at: http://maps.unomaha.edu/GoogleMapGallery/GradCircles/circles.htm