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Re: st: Aggregating spatial units
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Aggregating spatial units
Date
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:45:57 -0500
Perhaps using the polygon option within -spmap-?
Using the ancillary files from -spmap-, the example below will create
a map of five 5 aggregate regions:
use "Italy-RegionsCoordinates.dta",clear
xtile group = _ID, n(5)
save foo,replace
use "Italy-RegionsData.dta", clear
spmap using "Italy-RegionsCoordinates.dta", id(id) ///
polygon(data("foo") by(group) fcolor(Reds) oc(Reds) )
rm foo.dta
Scott
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Gindo Tampubolon
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear good folks,
>
> Is there a way of aggregating lower scale spatial units into higher ones [say Output Areas into Authority Districts in Britain or perhaps zip codes into counties in the US]? I have Output Areas boundary file in ESRI Shapefiles format and a look-up table from Output Areas to Authority Districts.
> With -shp2dta- and -spmap- I've been able to play around maps, but only with the scale given by the boundary files producer. Perhaps what I'm looking for is something like unionSpatialPolygons {maptools} in R. Just in case, my excuse for asking is: the rest of the analysis is in Stata.
>
> Many thanks and have a good weekend,
>
> Gindo
> Cambridge, MA
>
>
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