Hi,
I have thousands of records of longitude/latitude pairs in excel and would like to compare them against shapefiles to identify what area (United Kingdom local authorities) they sit in.
This is where the United Kingdom area perimiters are defined:
http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/...2015-full-clipped-boundaries-in-great-britain
The download button on that page has "Spreadsheet" (but I don't think the file has enough information to define the perimiters of areas??), "KML" (I don't know what this is) and "Shapefile".
After googling I think the best way forward is to pay a Python programmer to write code to check each longitude/latitude pair against the Shapefiles. Is there a simpler way?? And is there a way to use excel?
Many thanks for your help,
Poiu
I have thousands of records of longitude/latitude pairs in excel and would like to compare them against shapefiles to identify what area (United Kingdom local authorities) they sit in.
This is where the United Kingdom area perimiters are defined:
http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/...2015-full-clipped-boundaries-in-great-britain
The download button on that page has "Spreadsheet" (but I don't think the file has enough information to define the perimiters of areas??), "KML" (I don't know what this is) and "Shapefile".
After googling I think the best way forward is to pay a Python programmer to write code to check each longitude/latitude pair against the Shapefiles. Is there a simpler way?? And is there a way to use excel?
Many thanks for your help,
Poiu
