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London Borough Boundaries

Source: R/data-london_boroughs.R
london_boroughs.Rd

This dataset contains the coordinates of the boundaries of all 32 boroughs of the Greater London area.

Usage

london_boroughs

Format

A data frame with 45341 observations on the following 3 variables.

borough

Name of the borough.

x

The "easting" component of the coordinate, see details.

y

The "northing" component of the coordinate, see details.

Source

https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/ordnance-survey-code-point

Contains Ordinance Survey data released under the Open Government License, OGL v2.

Details

Map data was made available through the Ordnance Survey Open Data initiative. The data use the National Grid coordinate system, based upon eastings (x) and northings (y) instead of longitude and latitude.

The name variable covers all 32 boroughs in Greater London: Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster

See also

london_murders

Examples


library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

# Calculate number of murders by borough
london_murders_counts <- london_murders |>
  group_by(borough) |>
  add_tally()

london_murders_counts
#> # A tibble: 838 × 6
#> # Groups:   borough [32]
#>    forename             age date        year borough        n
#>    <fct>              <int> <date>     <int> <fct>      <int>
#>  1 Barrington Derrick    19 2006-01-02  2006 Hackney       42
#>  2 Aaron                 24 2006-01-02  2006 Lewisham      36
#>  3 Christopher           22 2006-01-03  2006 Hillingdon    21
#>  4 Thomas Philip         18 2006-01-04  2006 Camden        24
#>  5 Amanda                26 2006-01-04  2006 Camden        24
#>  6 Siva-Kumar            44 2006-01-05  2006 Brent         32
#>  7 Doreen                39 2006-01-08  2006 Croydon       38
#>  8 Matthew Roy           21 2006-01-09  2006 Lambeth       79
#>  9 Joan                  78 2006-01-09  2006 Enfield       31
#> 10 Monsur                27 2006-01-11  2006 Hackney       42
#> # ℹ 828 more rows
if (FALSE) {
# Add number of murders to geographic boundary data
london_boroughs_murders <- inner_join(london_boroughs, london_murders_counts, by = "borough")

# Map murders
ggplot(london_boroughs_murders) +
  geom_polygon(aes(x = x, y = y, group = borough, fill = n), colour = "white") +
  scale_fill_distiller(direction = 1) +
  labs(x = "Easting", y = "Northing", fill = "Number of murders")
}