Further development
A number of development areas and limitations regarding Nordic Service Analysis has been identified, which may be of interest to users and stakeholders.
A selection of further development areas that the Nordic Service Analysis project has shown is listed below:
- Data collection/updating will require large resources due to:
- Different legal rules, formats and projections regarding population data in the different countries must be taken into account.
- Collection of service points will probably require contact with a number of suppliers.
- Unification of attributes to obtain comparable data between countries will be required.
- Other legal aspects must be taken into account.
- Different legal rules, formats and projections regarding population data in the different countries must be taken into account.
- Linguistic adaptations will be required.
- The correct target groups must be found and requirements from these needs to be taken care of.
- Support/administration/education is needed.
Some known limitations:
- Only two service types are loaded into the database: groceries and fuels. Service points that have been coordinated outside the municipal layer are not included, especially in coastal areas.
- The population of some municipalities in Norway could not be included due to changed municipal codes.
- The entire map is in the geographical date Sweref 99 TM (EPSG 3006).