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SDD’s popular online PopGIS applications now have additional functionality. The thirteen country databases can be accessed from outside PopGIS via a Table Joining Service (TJS). PopGIS allows for TJS services to be consumed as well as served up to be consumed by other applications. A simple QGIS plugin has been developed to allow users to select an indicator which is stored in one of the PopGIS applications and then map the indicator directly within QGIS.
Download PopGIS TJS plugin for QGIS here (includes instructions and documentation) or via the QGIS Plugin Reposity as shown in third image below.
The SPC Statistics for Development Division (SDD) has been working on a manual to assist anyone wishing to perform census and survey mapping, and analysis with QGIS. QGIS is a free and open-source GIS package which is widely used at SPC for both internal GIS work and also training and technical assistance in the region.
You can download the QGIS program here.
As a result of the DFAT Pacific Statistics Assessment and the Internal SDD review, SDD is endeavoring to provide an improved user experience, with better access to data for all users of our websites – SDD/PRISM/NMDI.
This collaborative project between SPC and Worldfish has been initiated in direct response to many requests SDD recieved for coastal population figures. These requests were coming primarily from food security and disaster management applications, but this type of data is also useful to many others.
This StoryMap has been setup to disseminate the results.
As part of this initial project, we have endeavoured to estimate populations 1km, 5km and 10km from the coast. These distances are fairly arbitrary and represent those living on the coast, those who are within walking distance of the coast and then those who are possibly too far to walk to the coast (10km).
