Daily Archives: 8. Januar 2013

Building choropleth maps for European family names

For our project on the Luxembourgish family names, I recently created a server-side cartography tool with the possibility to map the proportion of a family name in a given region as a pie-chart. The advantage of this technique lies in the possibility to combine the relative frequency of more than one family name at the same time, allowing for the comparison of multiple regional structures on one map.