(mainly for internal documentation)

Generation of Neighbourhood Files for Dorling Cartograms and Generalization Filtering

Step 1: ArcInfo-AML (ArcInfo required)

shp2fil.aml

Input: ArcInfo-Shapefile with an ID-Item; output: 3 text files for the subsequent processing step.

Step 2: Excel-Macro (MS Excel required)

shp2fil.xls

The content of the 4 files from step 1 were pasted into the three sheets "aat", "pat", "reg" and "nam". The macro creates the .fil data in the sheet "fil".

NB: For the .wgt file: use e.g. population data.