Glasgow Regions Mapped – Progress Update 1

You can read the initial post at: Mapping Glasgow Districts

We have had some great progress on the mapping so far. There have been 367 regions mapped to date. However, as mentioned in the original post, there are a huge number of regions in Glasgow so even with over 300 responses many regions have only one response and others are still unmapped. But in the hopes of encouraging some more responses I felt it would be nice to show what progress has been made to date.

Statistics so far:
Unique region names so far: 241

Most mapped regions:
City Centre – 10
Finnieston – 9
Merchant City – 9
Dennistoun – 8
Partick – 7
West End – 7
Garnethill – 6
Hyndland – 6
Woodlands – 5
Hillhead – 5
Mount Florida – 5

Regions so far. Click for PDF version.
map_so_far

We can see that there are still quite a few regions that have had the same number of responses with multiple region names.

We can look at what these responses have been, in an interactive map:


Full Screen.

We can see that the West End in general has been the target of a large number of responses, so we can drill in a little further:

west_end1

Extent of the west end:

West End

Individual regions:

Anderston

Anniesland

Blairdardie

Broomhill

Charing Cross

Dowanhill

Drumchapel

Finnieston

Firhill

Garrioch

Hillhead

Hyndland

Jordanhill

Kelvingrove Park

Knightswood

Maryhill

Not Partick

Park Circus

Partick

Partickhill

Scotstoun

Thornwood

West Maryhill

Whiteinch

Woodlands

Yoker

Yorkhill

A final note, there have been some creative responses as well, as expected. But the flagging system on the mapping page has worked incredibly well.

A huge thanks if you have responded.

Every Person in Scotland on the Map

Winner of the 2016 OS OpenData Award for Excellence in the use of OpenData from the British Cartographic Society.

Full size.

The mapping process creates a random point within a building shell inside of a postcode area, which is repeated for every person in a postcode. This is in contrast to a simpler process, which does not take into account buildings at all, working simply with postcode areas. This can be seen in my previous post: Population of Scotland Mapped

Inspired by:
The Guardian – Every person in England and Wales on a map by Chris Cross

Based on the 2011 Scottish Census population data.

Data from the National Records of Scotland.

Combined with the Ordnance Survey, Open Map product.

Rendered with: QGIS tile writer python script.