Chapter 6. Analyzing Map Data

Finding data is helpful, but sometimes you need to explore it or do basic manipulation before you're ready to use it in your own maps. This chapter will lead you through acquiring the tools and data for some sample projects. Some of this sample data will be used in examples in other chapters as well. The techniques shown here don't produce lovely maps by themselves, but they can save you immense frustration when you go to use data to create maps.