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| <p>In the lead up to the next General Election, this site aims to map data about UK constituencies on hex cartograms. We shall be creating themes and populating them with separate pages for each data aspect. That way it will be possible to link to individual maps and make sharing them easier. If you know of an existing open dataset (provided by constituency) that you think we should include, please <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Constituency%20dataset&body=URL:%20%0ATitle:%20%0ADescription:">get in touch</a>.</p> | ||
| <p>This site aims to map data about UK constituencies on hex cartograms. We have created themes and are populating them with separate pages for each data aspect. That way it is possible to link to individual maps and make sharing them easier. If you know of an existing open dataset (provided by constituency) that you think we should include, please <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Constituency%20dataset&body=URL:%20%0ATitle:%20%0ADescription:">get in touch</a>.</p> | ||
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| <h2>Hex maps</h2> | ||
| <p>At Open Innovations we have a bit of a reputation for hex maps (technically, cartograms). When it comes to showing data about constituencies - where every constituency should have an equal visual weight in a visualisation - <a href="https://open-innovations.org/blog/2017-05-08-mapping-election-with-hexes">we think hex maps do a better job</a> than geographic maps. Particularly, strictly geographic representations of constituencies biases the overall impression in favour of the much larger, rural constituencies and effectively hides geographically small inner city constituencies. Obviously there are trade-offs when you abstract the geography - individual constituencies can't necessarily preserve their real-life neighbours and so relative positions do get distorted - but we feel that getting the correct overall impression from a visualisation matters more.</p> | ||
| <p>Given the 2023 boundary reviews, this site will make use of two different maps depending on the data source. Where data is produced for the new constituencies, we shall use our <a href="https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/builder.html?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odileeds/hexmaps/gh-pages/maps/uk-constituencies-2023.hexjson">2023 Constituency hex layout</a>. Otherwise we shall still be using our <a href="https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/builder.html?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odileeds/hexmaps/gh-pages/maps/constituencies.hexjson">old constituency layout</a>.</p> | ||
| <p>Given the 2023 boundary reviews, this site will make use of two different maps depending on the data source. Where data is produced for the current constituencies, we shall use our <a href="https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/builder.html?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odileeds/hexmaps/gh-pages/maps/uk-constituencies-2023.hexjson">2024 Constituency hex layout</a>. Otherwise we shall still be using our <a href="https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/builder.html?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odileeds/hexmaps/gh-pages/maps/constituencies.hexjson">old constituency layout</a>.</p> | ||
| <p>Download the layouts as <a href="https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/hexjson">HexJSON</a> or pre-rendered SVG:</p> | ||
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| <li><a href="/assets/hexjson/constituencies.hexjson">UK constituency layout 2010 (HexJSON)</a></li> | ||
| <li><a href="/assets/svg/uk-constituencies-2010.svg">UK constituency layout 2010 (SVG)</a></li> | ||
| <li><a href="/assets/hexjson/uk-constituencies-2024.hexjson">UK constituency layout 2023 (HexJSON)</a> - there are currently no GSS IDs for Scotland or Northern Ireland</li> | ||
| <li><a href="/assets/svg/uk-constituencies-2024.svg">UK constituency layout 2023 (SVG)</a> - there are currently no GSS IDs for Scotland or Northern Ireland</li> | ||
| <li><a href="/assets/hexjson/uk-constituencies-2024.hexjson">UK constituency layout 2024 (HexJSON)</a></li> | ||
| <li><a href="/assets/svg/uk-constituencies-2024.svg">UK constituency layout 2024 (SVG)</a></li> | ||
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| <h2>Technical details</h2> | ||
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