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normal map

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normal map [′nȯr·məl ′map]
(mathematics)
A planar map in which no more than three regions meet any one point and no region completely encloses another. Also known as regular map.
(meteorology)


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Beck reduced the geographic chaos that the tube lines produced when mapped between the stations on a normal map, to an electrical switch system which equalised distances between stations, made interchanges clear and through graphic means alone made clearer which names referred to which stations.
If you were to look in detail at a very small area of the cartogram, it should look very similar to a normal map," he says.
You won't find Illesheim, Germany on a normal map, because it is such a small village.
 
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