Administrative Boundary Reorganization and the Mapping of Temporal Change

Type Conference Paper - 21st International Cartographic Conference (ICC)
Title Administrative Boundary Reorganization and the Mapping of Temporal Change
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2003
City Durban
Country/State South Africa
URL http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/392.pdf
Abstract
Administrative boundary reorganization poses a problem for cartographic analysis of social, demographic, and economic variables because data sets created before and after reorganization are incompatible. Weighting methods are often used to translate data between different boundary configurations, but these can introduce substantial error. An alternate method called "strategic amalgamation" can resolve the problem of data conversion while adding little or no error. Strategic amalgamation creates an entirely new set of upper level areal units based on combination of lower-level units, thus largely avoiding the need for weighting.

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