Mapineq Link: Geospatial Dashboard and Database
Mapineq Link is an online interactive geospatial dashboard and database that improves existing resources by offering a unique and rich multiverse of data for multiple uses. It will allow policy-makers and journalists to visually explore regional inequalities and case studies to develop new policies and investigative insights. It offers researchers an interactive data dashboard to form hypotheses and visualise data and invites data scientists and programmers to unlock tools for further research via API (Application Programming Interface) access to our databases
By Melinda Mills & Douglas Leasure.
Mapineq Link is a rich open-access online interactive dashboard and database that contains diverse information that is geospatially patterned. Indicators have been initially gathered under four modules: (1) institutional policies, (2) environmental indicators, (3) real-world data, (4) demographic, socioeconomic, health and lifestyle.
Mapineq Link has both an online interactive dashboard and an API which allows: (1) researchers to query the database, (2) programmers and data scientists to retrieve data for specific geolocations or bespoke regions; (3) external web developers to easily integrate MapIneq data into their own interactive web applications; and (4) other users (e.g. the public) to view data and visualizations of a wide range of indicators. The MapIneq Link team is dedicated to FAIR principles.
Mapineq Link improves existing resources by: (1) harmonising and blending geospatial data from multiple sources, (2) including fine-grained geospatial indicators at multiple levels, (3) expanding coverage of to a multiverse of data types, (3) developing an API tool to allow data scientists to access geo-coded data to link to individual data and integrate into their own web applications.