Anyone know anything about population mapping tools?
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On the internet it's easy to find tools where you enter an address and a radius and it tells you how many people live within that radius.
I'm looking for one that handles multiple addresses - imagine answering the question "what percentage of the population lives within X miles of a specialized care center". I can't do it individually for each address because there will be considerable double counting of population if I do.
Anyone know anything about this?
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Your question reminded me of SAS. My recollection is that they were kind of a pioneer in this area back in the 70s.
I worked with their mapping products in the early 80s, 40 years ago now.
I haven't dealt with their software for decades, but apparently they still exist.
https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/grmapref/n16f03njg5ix6zn1hr7mhou3ccrt.htm
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It sounds like a GIS kind of solution to me, honestly. The problem is getting the data sets, no?
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It sounds like a GIS kind of solution to me, honestly. The problem is getting the data sets, no?
@Aqua-Letifer No, the census bureau publishes them.
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@Aqua-Letifer No, the census bureau publishes them.
@jon-nyc said in Anyone know anything about population mapping tools?:
@Aqua-Letifer No, the census bureau publishes them.
Well, like I said, taking various geo data sheets and mapping their overlaps and relationships is basically what GIS was designed for. But I don't know of any premade tool for this in particular, sorry.
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Not a solution but I came across this article: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/12/how-far-americans-live-from-the-closest-hospital-differs-by-community-type/
Note the methodology used was a GIS solution: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FT_18.12.10_DIstanceHospitals_Methodology.pdf
Depending on how many care centers you're talking about, you could create manual boundaries on a map, but that isn't scalable if you're talking amount care centers nationwide. Your best bet, other than finding a multi-address tool, is to find existing research similar to the article above.
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No for my foundation. We have approved care centers around the country (Mayo Clinic is one) and we maintain a list of them on our website.
I want to expand it, and the metric I want to use to expand the network is the % of the country that lives within (say) 100 miles of a center. A tool like this will help me measure progress and select recruiting targets.
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