From 6c367d33928b9f0ab9b079206c54ff0abaa443a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Kidwell Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:17:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updated readme --- README.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 29dd252..a5ea5ef 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,7 @@ -# uk_census_shapes_clipped -R Script used to clip UK census admin polygons to buildings layer from Ordnance Survey +# UK Census Polygons - Clipped! + +Choropleth visualisations of data can often end up visually misleading in that they colour in polygons which contain vast tracts of uninhabited land. A more accurate visual communication can be achieved by clipping administrative polygons to data on the presence of buildings, that is, only using choropleth shading for areas which are inhabited. + +It is time consuming to produce this data, so I have done so programatically and uploaded the resulting geopackage files to a public repository for easy re-use for reproducible research. + +The files in this repository are only the code used to produce those files. Separate licenses apply to that data etc. \ No newline at end of file