What is TURF?

Can be used for a variety of spatial analysis tasks

  • Aggregation
    • Putting things together
  • Geometric measurements
    • Measure size, area, distances, etc.
  • Geometric transformation
    • Merge, simplify, buffer, etc.
  • Interpolation
    • Creates buckets that can be used to interpolate
  • Spatial Joins
  • And a whole bunch of other convenient features

Turf is most powerful when these tools are used in combination

For example:

  • Create hex bins
  • Aggregate point values into hex bins
  • Classify hex bins
  • Color hex bins