r/Glasgow Tools

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Author	Lyracs
Comment	Boy this is so interesting! Thanks for sharing this! I would 100% listen to that podcast. I saw that for the 1999 and 2003 election, the council was using wards with names that correspond to many of the neighborhood names. They divided the city into 79 wards instead of the 23 we have today. (SRC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wards_of_Glasgow) Unfortunately, the city has no shapefile for these old ward boundaries. I guess for the purpose of my map I will have to digitise over these old boundaries. They won't reflect the true historic neighborhoods and some neighborhoods are still missing, but I reckon it is the closest I'll get to it for now.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/k61fq5/working_on_a_map_of_glasgow_districts_and_was/geixlym/
Created	Thu 3rd Dec 2020 8:44pm
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Boy this is so interesting! Thanks for sharing this! I would 100% listen to that podcast.

I saw that for the 1999 and 2003 election, the council was using wards with names that correspond to many of the neighborhood names. They divided the city into 79 wards instead of the 23 we have today. (SRC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wards_of_Glasgow)

Unfortunately, the city has no shapefile for these old ward boundaries. I guess for the purpose of my map I will have to digitise over these old boundaries. They won't reflect the true historic neighborhoods and some neighborhoods are still missing, but I reckon it is the closest I'll get to it for now.