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Ivory Coast mobile phone population cartogram

by administrator | Dec 29, 2015 | News

A blog post on population mapping using anonymised mobile phone data from individual call records by Orange in the country of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). See blog post for more information.Read article

Statistics Finland making use of open source web-mapping software

by administrator | Dec 11, 2015 | News

Latest Positio magazine introduces Oskari. Oskari is an open source web-mapping software project started by the National Land Survey of Finland. Oskari is now developed by a growing community of developers from governmental organizations as well as from private...Read article

EFGS2015 – European Forum for Geography and Statistics 2015 Conference Vienna, Austria, 10 – 12 November 2015

by administrator | Nov 20, 2015 | News

The European Forum for Geography and Statistics (EFGS) held the 8th Conference on the integration of geography and statistics from 10-12 November 2015 in Vienna, Austria. This conference was hosted by Statistics Austria with the support from Eurostat and in...Read article

NFGS 2015 Conference program and presentations

by administrator | Sep 11, 2015 | News

All submitted presentations data and documents from NFGS Conference (Stockholm, Sweden) you can find here.Read article

Using grid data in order to relate Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Dementia Incidence in Northern Sweden.

by administrator | Aug 13, 2015 | News

Interesting way of using 50 x 50 m grid for study of exposure to ambient air pollution. “Exposure to ambient air pollution is suspected to cause cognitive effects, but a prospective cohort is needed to study exposure to air pollution at the home address and the...Read article