The Andalusian Population Information System, new tool to know the areas of the territory linked to de population

Abstract

The Andalusian Population System (SIPOB) is a spatial database product that provides homogeneous, precise and coded information on the location of the population in the territory. The Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia (IECA) had already generated a reference base of the settlement system and the territorialization of the Nomenclature of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), so the SIPOB is developed on this starting information. An exhaustive process of review and updating of the available databases is undertaken, combining photointerpretation with data from multiple sources and, under a comprehensive view of the settlement, it is structured in a PostgreSQL/PosGIS database. The development of this data set maintains a double perspective, which combines the territorial variable with statistics, which allows it to generate a continuous and codified framework of the territory. The first results of SIPOB are already published on the IECA website, including a cartographic viewer, presenting itself as a new tool for the detailed analysis of the population of Andalusia and the possible variables that with it can be transferred to the territorial reality.