Geographical Referencing Learning Resources 
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Learning Materials General Geo-Refer Resources
:: Social science data
Explains how different social science phenomena exist
at
spatial locations- Geographical object types
- Direct and indirect referencing
- The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP)
- Ecological fallacy
:: Statistical geography
- An explanation of Neighbourhood Statistics geography in
England
and Wales
- Understanding the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for
Statistics (NUTS)
- Using geographies from multiple time periods
:: Obtaining data
Data
Access:
UK academic || UK
public
sector || UK private sector || non-UK users
UKBORDERS - EDINA's online digital boundary service
- The National Statistics Postcode Directory (NSPD)
- GeoConvert - Mimas's online geography matching and
conversion
tool
:: Address referencing
:: Postcodes
- An overview of UK postcode system
- Correctly formatting UK postcodes
- Correctly formatting UK postcodes with Microsoft®
Excel®
- Getting grid coordinates from postcodes using Microsoft®
Access™
Georeferencing primary school data in Newham- Linking and aggregating postcoded data to Output Areas
using a
user-created postcode directory in Microsoft® Access™
- Linking and
Mapping: Postcoded school performance data
||
Postcoded longitudinal dietary survey data (case
study)
- Linking postcoded neighbourhood perception survey data
to
census, health and neighbourhood statistics geographies (case study)
:: Census geography
- An overview of UK census geography
- UK census data
- Census
2001: England || Wales || Scotland
|| Northern Ireland
- Census
1991: England || Wales || Scotland
|| Northern Ireland
- Census
1981: England || Wales || Scotland
- Census
1971: England || Wales || Scotland
- Joining and mapping census and boundary data in
ArcGIS®
- Mapping health and pharmaceutical expenditure and their
determinants across US states (case study)
:: Deprivation
- Deprivation indicators
- Townsend deprivation index
- Indices of
Deprivation: ID2004 || ID2007
- Mapping
deprivation
in: City of Bristol || Isle of Wight (case study)
- Retrieving ID2007 in SASPAC and Mapping IMD ranking
using
MapShore
- Linking school performance data with IMD data in Newham
using
Microsoft® Access™ and Mapping the results in MapShore
:: Health geography
- Example - QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework)
Information
- Linking and mapping out of hours calls to GPs in Devon,
England
(case study)
Mapping and Data Linkage Resources
:: Frequently-asked mapping concepts and GIS processes
- Accuracy and precision
- Map:
Scale | Projection
- ArcGIS®:
Defining a map projection || Connecting to a folder || Merging shapefiles
:: Matching lists together
- Concept overview of matching two or more data lists
together
- Matching two lists using Microsoft®
Access™
- Linking and aggregating postcoded data to a higher
geography
using Microsoft® Access™
- Using gazetteer files to rezone data in SASPAC
- Aggregating school data to LSOA using gazetteer files
in
SASPAC
:: Mapping point information
- Concept overview of mapping a set of points
- Mapping a set of
points
using: ArcGIS® || MapShore
- Mapping school location in Newham using MapShore
:: Joining attributes and boundaries
- Concept overview of joining attributes to boundary
data
- Joining attribute and boundary data for mapping
purposes in
ArcGIS®
- Importing user-defined variables to SASPAC
:: Creating a choropleth map
- Concept overview of creating a choropleth map
- Creating a
choropleth
map
in: ArcGIS® || SASPAC and MapShore
:: Spatial data linkage: Joining point data to polygons
- Concept overview of linking point data to a set of
polygons
- Joining point data to a set of polygons in
ArcGIS®
:: Spatial data linkage: Joining polygons to points
- Concept overview of linking polygon data to a set of
points
- Joining polygon data to a set of points in
ArcGIS®