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
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