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gpsbound: Routine for importing and verifying geographical information from a user provided shapefile

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  • Brophy, Tim

    (SALDRU, School of Economics, University of Cape Town)

  • Daniels, Reza Che

    (School of Economics, University of Cape Town)

  • Musundwa, Sibongile

    (SALDRU, School of Economics, University of Cape Town)

Abstract

Geographical coordinates such as Global Positioning System (GPS) latitude and longitude estimates form the foundation of many spatial statistical methods. gpsbound allows users to (1) import geographical information from the attribute table of a polygon shapefile based on the identified location of GPS coordinates in a Stata dataset, and (2) check that the GPS coordinates lie within the bounds of a polygon demarcated in the shapefile (e.g. enumerator areas, primary sampling units, suburb, city, country). One of the contributions of gpsbound is to allow users to work with spatial data in Stata without ever needing Geographical Information System (GIS) software.

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  • Brophy, Tim & Daniels, Reza Che & Musundwa, Sibongile, 2014. "gpsbound: Routine for importing and verifying geographical information from a user provided shapefile," SALDRU Working Papers 132, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
    • Handle: RePEc:ldr:wpaper:132
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    Keywords

    Stata ado; GPS coordinates; Bounding box; Point in polygon algorithm;
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    JEL classification:

    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques

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