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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michael gurstein <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:16 AM Subject: [ciresearchers] FW: [OTT-GOSLING] Incredible 2011 Census Open Atlas Project (UK): 140, 000 maps in 4 days To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Newton Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:27 AM To: civicaccess discuss; GOSLING members in Ottawa; KADY O'MALLEY Subject: [OTT-GOSLING] Incredible 2011 Census Open Atlas Project (UK): 140, 000 maps in 4 days http://www.alex-singleton.com/2011-census-open-atlas-project/ This guy took UK Open Data and auto-generated, using R, a PDF atlas for each local authority district. 350 of them!! This is pretty amazing and a great and useful application of Open Government Data. "Because the data and boundaries are available under an open government licence, and that these data have been usefully placed online as direct downloads (data, boundaries), it makes it possible to create maps for England and Wales in a highly automated way. As such, since launch of the Output Area level data I have been busy writing (and then running – around 4 days!) a set of R code that would map every Key Statistics variable for all local authority districts. The code for doing this is fully reproducible, and I have dropped this on my Rpubs blog." So this dude produced 350 atlases, each with ~400 maps each! In 4 days this guy produced 350x400=140,000 maps! How much $$$, time and people does it take StatsCan to do the same thing? I formerly worked at the National Atlas of Canada (NRCan) working in digital map production, & I find this is pretty amazing! -Glen -- - http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/ - _______________________________________________ Ottawa-gosling mailing list [email protected] http://list.goslingcommunity.org/mailman/listinfo/ottawa-gosling To unsubscribe (subscribe) send an email to: [email protected] with the message unsub (sub) ciresearchers -- Communications & Technology Officer, Accountability Initiative <http://www.accountabilityindia.in/>, Centre for Policy Research <http://cprindia.org/> -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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