Fwd: EU shape file for Geoda
Julia Koschinsky
From: Codruta Mare <csa...@yahoo.com>
Date: 2009/8/19
Subject: EU shape file for Geoda
To: geoda...@asu.edu
Good day!
My name is Codruta Mare and I am a Romanian Phd candidate studying in
Gorizia, Italy, at the International University Institure for European
Studies.
I am interested in issues regarding the European Union and I would
like to make a spatial econometric analysis of the macroeconomic
parameters at the union's level. I have recently started to learn how
to use Geoda, but, unfortunately, I found only the map of EU-25 at
NUTSII level.
Could you help me in any way to find the shapefile of the EU-27 at
country level?
Thank you very much for your time!
Best regards,
Codruta Mare
Cluj-Napoca, Romania/ Gorizia, Italy
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Julia Koschinsky, Ph.D.
Research Director
Arizona State University
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
URL: http://geodacenter.asu.edu
Email: julia.ko...@asu.edu
Roger Bivand
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Codruta Mare <csa...@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2009/8/19
> Subject: EU shape file for Geoda
> To: geoda...@asu.edu
>
>
> Good day!
> My name is Codruta Mare and I am a Romanian Phd candidate studying in
> Gorizia, Italy, at the International University Institure for European
> Studies.
>
> I am interested in issues regarding the European Union and I would
> like to make a spatial econometric analysis of the macroeconomic
> parameters at the union's level. I have recently started to learn how
> to use Geoda, but, unfortunately, I found only the map of EU-25 at
> NUTSII level.
> Could you help me in any way to find the shapefile of the EU-27 at
> country level?
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/GISCO/geodatafiles/NUTS_03M_2006_SH.zip
should do, or something less detailed than this one, see:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco/popups/references/Administrative units and Statistical units1
(yes, there are spaces in the URL which will get line-broken)
Note that the file includes multiple NUTS layers, I think 0 (whole
country), 1, 2, and 3. You'll need a GIS or other software (for example R)
to get just the NUTS2 regions (this is R, writing a shapefile of the
subset):
library(rgdal)
eu <- readOGR(".", "NUTS_RG_03M_2006")
names(eu)
ro <- eu[grep("^RO", as.character(eu$NUTS_ID)),]
plot(ro, axes=TRUE)
ro$NUTS_ID
ro_nuts2 <- ro[nchar(as.character(ro$NUTS_ID)) == 4,]
summary(ro_nuts2)
plot(ro_nuts2, axes=TRUE)
writeOGR(ro_nuts2, ".", "ro_nuts2", driver="ESRI Shapefile")
yielding a map that looks like the one in:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/atlas/romania/factsheets/pdf/fact_ro_en.pdf
Since your question could also be for a map of EU27 by country, then I'd
go for:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/GISCO/geodatafiles/NUTS_20M_2006_SH.zip
eu20 <- readOGR("shape/data", "NUTS_RG_20M_2006")
table(nchar(as.character(eu20$NUTS_ID)))
eu20_0 <- eu20[nchar(as.character(eu20$NUTS_ID)) == 2,]
plot(eu20_0, axes=TRUE)
eu20_0$NUTS_ID
not_27 <- c("IS", "NO", "LI", "CH", "HR", "MK", "TR")
eu20_27 <- eu20_0[!(as.character(eu20_0$NUTS_ID) %in% not_27),]
summary(eu20_27)
plot(eu20_27, axes=TRUE)
writeOGR(eu20_27, ".", "eu20_27", driver="ESRI Shapefile")
Watch the French overseas territories, they make the plot seem
counter-intuitive, although they are really in the EU!
Hope this helps,
Roger
>
> Thank you very much for your time!
> Best regards,
> Codruta Mare
> Cluj-Napoca, Romania/ Gorizia, Italy
>
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Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger....@nhh.no