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Major benefits from computer‐assisted collection mapping to support the census of canada
Author(s) -
Yan Joel,
Chinnappa Kaveri,
Molnar Rennie,
Tallon Pamela
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
canadian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1708-945X
pISSN - 0319-5724
DOI - 10.2307/3315225.o
Subject(s) - census , geography , library science , cartography , computer science , regional science , population , demography , sociology
Abstract Census taking requires large numbers of maps to ensure that every part of the country is assigned for enumeration purposes, and that no area is counted more than once. There has been a major increase in the degree of automation in the cartographic support of census operations. After several years of planning and development, 1200 census tract collection maps, comprising approximately one‐sixth of the census enumeration areas in Canada, were produced with computer assistance for the 1986 Census of Canada. This paper highlights the approach successfully used at Statistics Canada to convert urban census enumeration area map production from a traditional manual drafting operation to a largely automated system, and summarizes the benefits of this conversion. It also describes one of the algorithms used for automatically placing text on the maps.