SMT201 AY2019-20T1 EX1 Zang Yu

Part 1: Thematic Mapping

Distribution of public education institution by school types

Since the nature of the data is discrete, I have categorised the school layer into 4 categories based on the school types and different svg symbols. MP14 planning area layer was used as the background reference map to show the distribution of public education institutions across Singapore.

Road network system of Singapore

Based on the data from road section layer, we are unable distinguish major and minor roads. Therefore, I combined the road section layer with the national map line layer to gain new information about expressways and major roads. The remaining classified as minor roads. Lines with different colours and thickness were used to represent the different roads.

2014 Master Plan Landuse

In the original data, there are too many types of uses for land which made the map difficult for visualisation. Therefore, I reduce the number of categorises by merging lands with similar function together. For example, I have grouped Educational Institution, Place of Worship and Civic & Community Institution all under one category Civic & Community Institution. I used different colours to represent different types of landuse.

Part 2: Choropleth Mapping

Aged population (+65) in 2010

For this choropleth map, I used datasets from Singstat and data.gov.sg. In order to do a relational join between population attribute layer and MP14_SubZone GIS layer, I need a unique identifier between these two datasets. Both datasets contain fields about the subzone name but they were different forms. The subzone name in population attribute layer was capitalized only the first letter but in MP14_SubZone GIS layer it is all in capital letters. Therefore, I converted the subzone names all to capital letters using UPPER() function in excel before I imported it into QGIS. I also filtered out the aged population in year 2010. Next, I used GroupStats plugin to sum up the aged population by subzone and created the relational join between the two layers. I have used equal interval classification method as it provides a clear picture of the subzones with more aged population.

Aged population (+65) in 2018

Proportional of aged population in 2010

Proportional of aged population in 2018

Percentage change of aged population between 2010 and 2018