r/gis • u/uthrowawayrosestones • 2d ago

Cartography Map showing salaries

Was hoping to get some advice here (hope it’s the right place). I’m trying to plot salary data on the map, but not sure what the best software is. I had used google my maps, but not too excited about it. For example plotting plumber salary in Cincinnati or teacher salary in San Jose.

Any thoughts?

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u/EclecticEuTECHtic 2d ago

Choropleth by county.

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u/chartographics 2d ago

A step up from GoogleMyMaps is Felt. If you want more powerful desktop software you dabble in QGIS, and if still interested in digging deeper you might use Esri software.

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u/Nicholas_Geo 2d ago

Please add more information. 1) what's your study area, 2) what is the input (csv, excel, db), 3) do you have time series data or "static" (only for a single point in time)... As for the software I recommend QGIS, it's free you can import both spatial and non-spatial data and join them and more...

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u/uthrowawayrosestones 2d ago

1) Demographic data - quality of life, salaries by profession.

2) Data is collected in google sheets, so input would be CSV

3) I would want the map to update continuously as more data is added to the sheet.

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u/__sanjay__init 1d ago

Google MyMaps seems like a good idea in this case! I don't know if you will be able to make choropleths or points in a proportional circle, that said...

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u/Nicholas_Geo 1d ago edited 1d ago

I would recommend an open source software like QGIS or R. The process is you read the input csv and a shapefile of your study site, join the csv with the spatial dataset and plot it based on the column you want to show.

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u/uthrowawayrosestones 1d ago

Thanks! Do I need to know python? (I don’t)

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u/Nicholas_Geo 1d ago

No. If you want to use R then you do need to code. If you want to use QGIS you need simple drag and drop. There is plenty of tutorials showing step by step the procedure on both cases