METAL POP

This repo contains a workflow to join population data centroids from SEDAC GPWv4 to global political boundaries such as Natural Earth Vector or GADM, enriched with band data scraped from Metal-Archives.

Requirements

Tools:

• Mapshaper
• GDAL
• Make
• wget
• Mapbox MTSCLI for tiling

Data:

• GPWv4 Centroids
• Vector data such as GADM or Natural Earth States and Provinces (default)

Usage

• make all: Run this command to process the point data, and join it to natural earth states and provinces using mapshaper
• make all_bands: same as make all but with the added step of joining band data and tiling the results using Mapbox Tiling Service
• make csv: Import regional GPW centroid CSV files and merge into one giant globalshapefile, using INSIDE_X and INSIDE_Y to create point geometries
• `make
• make get_natural_earth: download natural earth vector data