Automated boundary creation: Atomic small areas in Ireland

A. Stewart Fotheringham; Peter F. Foley; Martin Charlton

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78946-8_13

Automated boundary creation: Atomic small areas in Ireland

A. Stewart Fotheringham, Peter F. Foley, Martin Charlton

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Abstract

This paper describes the creation of a set of small-areas for the reporting of census data in the Republic of Ireland. The current areas used for reporting the results of the quinquennial population censuses are known as Electoral Divisions; they are large compared with similar reporting areas in Northern Ireland, they have widely varying populations and considerable internal social heterogeneity which makes them unsuitable for a wide variety of planning tasks. We describe an automated method of creating a suitable census geography which uses existing digital map and gazetteer data. We describe its structure and operation, validation and its application to nationwide. The areas have a prescribed minimum size, are designed to be consistently small, nest into the existing ED geography, cover the whole country, are constrained by natural boundaries, use streets as their unifying feature, and are reasonably homogenous.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The European Information Society
Subtitle of host publication	Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pages	241-259
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	9783540789451
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78946-8_13
State	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, AGILE 2008 - Girona, Spain Duration: May 5 2008 → May 8 2008

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Name	Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
ISSN (Print)	1863-2351

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Other	11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, AGILE 2008
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Girona
Period	5/5/08 → 5/8/08

Keywords

Census
Electoral divisions
Gazetteer
Spatial patterns

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Geography, Planning and Development
Earth-Surface Processes
Computers in Earth Sciences

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Automated boundary creation: Atomic small areas in Ireland. / Fotheringham, A. Stewart; Foley, Peter F.; Charlton, Martin.
The European Information Society: Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2008. p. 241-259 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Fotheringham, AS, Foley, PF & Charlton, M 2008, Automated boundary creation: Atomic small areas in Ireland. in The European Information Society: Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 241-259, 11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, AGILE 2008, Girona, Spain, 5/5/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78946-8_13

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