14 Spatial data sources
14.1 Council’s spatial data
The Council’s spatial data is hosted by ESRI’s ArcGIS web GIS tools.
Portal (ArcGIS Enterprise) is Council-wide:
ArcGIS Online (AGOL) is the public facing equivalent of Portal:
Unlike R, ArcGIS is not open source and incurs a financial cost. Portal and AGOL require login credentials for both licensing and data protection purposes. The exception, is some public data on AGOL, for example the Council’s open data site:
14.2 External spatial data
Data that’s publically available or available via a license to the Council.
14.2.1 Open Geography Portal
More specific to the UK, is spatial data from ONS and Ordnance Survey. There are some notes on accessing this data in the chapter on Public Data Sources under Open Geography Portal and OS Data Hub.
ONS have produced some Geography for Statistics Training materials that are a good place to start.
14.2.4 LSOApop R package
The goal of LSOApop is to make population estimates for Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) and their Indecies of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) easily available in R.
nhs-r-community.github.io/LSOApop
TODO
14.2.5 Living Atlas
ESRI’s Living Atlas has a lot of content, but I’ve yet to properly explore or use it (TODO).