Data catalog

[antagomir]

Data catalogue: should this be maintained as part of the package; which data sets to include? Broad coverage, or selective?

[antagomir]

To start with, let us focus on the following data in the overall functionality

• data.stat.fi municipality data and derivative levels (derivative levels such as ERVA districts will be just added as vignette aggregation examples at first; wrappers later as needed)
• Postal code regions PAAVO
• MML (Paituli): with and without coastal lines
• generic getters for any standard format data
• population grid
• population register Consider VRK:n rakennusten osoitetiedot ja äänestysalueet -data #13

Later:

• election districts Add election districts #12 (not available country-wide atm, though; therefore inclusion to geofi is problematic)
• vaalipiirit Add vaalipiirit #7 (can be obtained by aggregation, see Add municipal regions #4 )
• sairaanhoitopiirit Add sairaanhoitpiirit #6 (can be obtained by aggregation, see Add municipal regions #4 )

Link or incorporate other possible (open) data resources/catalogs:

• gisdata collected by @teelmo
• Finnish Geospatial Research and Education Hub: http://www.geoportti.fi/data/find-and-get-data/

[antagomir]

It would be helpful for package development if the available key data resources (many listed above), and decisions to include/exclude in geofi, where clearly listed, perhaps with brief explanation if the seemingly important data set (election districts?) is excluded. We could add these in the Rmd vignette or in a Wiki. I might have slight preference to vignette.

[teelmo]

In Yle's result service for the 2019 elections they obtained the election districts for the whole country:

• https://vaalit.yle.fi/ev2019/fi/regions/1/municipalities/91
• https://vaalit.yle.fi/ev2019/fi/regions/13/municipalities/698

[muuankarski]

Where were they obtained from? Are polling district (äänestysalueet) (outside major towns) available as open data?

[teelmo]

Ask [email protected]. He might know.