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March 2012: Volume 17 Issue 1
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Thematic Mapper application added to UKBORDERS
A choropleth map created within Thematic Mapper following the upload of a public dataset provided by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.
A new application is now available to all registered users of the ESRC-funded UKBORDERS service.
The UKBORDERS Thematic Mapper application can be used to create a shaded choropleth map from area-based statistics uploaded in a CSV file.
The Thematic Mapper application includes the following features:
- Create choropleth maps from CSV files containing supported geographic identifiers
- Real-time data upload, editing and styling
- Wizard based data upload
- Polygon geometries provided by the UKBORDERS database
- Modern, responsive application with contextual help
- Ordnance Survey base maps from Digimap OpenStream
- Export choropleth maps as PNG image and PDF document
- Export choropleth map data as a Shapefile with style information in an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) file
A short step-by-step tutorial demonstrating the use of Thematic Mapper with this dataset is available for download as a PDF document (957 Kb).
Academic access to the UKBORDERS service is free via an Individual Registration system.