Development of the Mesh Data Analysis System

Area mesh statistics is a kind of small area statistics. The area mesh data of Japan can be created in a lot of way and many of them can be downloaded, for example, from the land's value information service which is provided by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan. We developed database of these area mesh data. By using mesh navigator software (Makita Naoki, 1997), which needs to run on ProAtlas2000 and Microsoft Access2000, we displayed the mesh data on the map. What visualized on the map is very convenient. For extending the advantages of area mesh data to spatial geographical statistics, we used PostgreSQL to develop a new database of mesh data. We also develop some programs in Delphi for the analysis of area mesh data, such as Histogram, Echelon analysis, and etc.