[Openspace] GeoDa Map - NUTS-II level (EU-25)

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Roger Bivand wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Jorge Andraz wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>  I  am the one who placed that question sometime ago. Unfortunately I
>>  couldn´t get the maps from the sources I was referred to.
>>  I know that there is a software program of mapping design from which the
>>  maps are built.
>>  However I don´t know if it is necessary to use that software (whose name I
>>  do not know) or if Geoda is capable to built the maps.
>
> The extension on the 20M/data/NUTS_2003_20M.mdb found at the web link 
> suggests that it is a proprietary ESRI ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase, actually 
> an extended Access file, using Access tables in a special way to hold the 
> geometries.
>
> If you would like to convert it to a shapefile for GeoDa, you can either 
> convert it in ArcGIS, or download FWTools from www.gdal.org, and use the 
> ogr2ogr command line utility, or use another file format converter for GIS 
> vector data.
>
> Notice that GISCO probably doesn't know the difference between a personal 
> geodatabase and a shapefile, or at the least should revise its site to say 
> that they are now using a much less portable format than previously.

The download includes a metadata directory, and the file there describes 
the data as:

"Available format:

     Format name: ESRI Personal Geodatabase (only for 1:3m, 1:10m and 1:20m)
     Format version: ArcGIS V9.2"

which looks authoritative.

Roger

>
> Roger
>
>>
>>  Jorge
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philipp Mohl" <mohl at zew.de>
>>  To: <openspace at sal.uiuc.edu>
>>  Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:18 PM
>>  Subject: [Openspace] GeoDa Map - NUTS-II level (EU-25)
>> 
>> 
>> >   Hi,
>> > 
>> >   I want to use NUTS-II level data (including a map) with GeoDa but I
>> >   still do not know how to.
>> >   Recently, someone asked the same question. He was referred to the
>> >   following website:
>> > 
>> >   http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=2254,64099847,2254_64185160&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
>> > 
>> >   Unfortunately, I was not able to open it with GeoDa.
>> >   Moreover, I am interested in NUTS-II level data for the EU-25.
>> > 
>> >   Can anybody help me?
>> > 
>> >   Thank you very much.
>> >   Philipp
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
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Roger Bivand
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