The source code in this repository built the spatial data tools that you can explore at: https://mapineq.org/.
The Mapineq Project is an international collaboration that aims to link innovative and interdisplinary data sources to empower researchers, policy-makers, and the general public to better understand how location helps shape the opportunities and ultimate outcomes that you may experience throughout your life--and to chart a path towards reducing inequalities at every step. We think that putting data on the map and exploring spatial relationships among drivers of inequality is a key component of this work, and we want to share the exciting tools that we've been developing to make this a little bit easier. The Mapineq team believes strongly in the power of Free and Open Source Software and FAIR research principles, so we are giving away our source code here for free so that you can reproduce our work, modify our code as you like, share it with your friends and colleagues, cite us when you find these tools useful, and get involved with the Mapineq Project to help make it better. This open-access repository contains the source code for the Mapineq Link database, API, and interactive mapping dashboard that are available from https://mapineq.org/.
License
This repository is made available under the terms of a GNU General Public License v3. This means that you can use, modify, and redistribute the contents of this repository for any purpose, but you must apply the same license to modified materials to keep the code open-source, include the license with redistributed material, identify any modifications that you have made, and please cite us as your source.
Suggested Citation
Leasure DR, van Ruler N, de Jong S, Lassche R, Ao X, Lambert T, Schoof G, Mills MM. 2025. Mapineq Link: Spatial Data for Inequality Research, v1.0.0. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14609989. https://github.com/OxfordDemSci/Mapineq.
Acknowledgements
The MapIneq project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme (202061645) and the MapineqLink database and dashboard received additional support from the Leverhulme Trust (RC-2018-003) via the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. Code development was a joint effort between the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford and Geodienst at the University of Groningen.