# MexiMaps

> MexiMaps is an interactive Mexico census map for exploring socioeconomic data by state, municipality, and hex grid.

MexiMaps is a public, web-based census map created by Fernando Salazar. It helps people explore socioeconomic, housing, services, employment, education, household goods, and pressure indicators derived from public census data in Mexico.

## Primary URLs

- [MexiMaps map](https://www.meximaps.com/): Interactive MapLibre census map for exploring Mexico.
- [About MexiMaps](https://www.meximaps.com/about): Project purpose, data summary, and how to interpret the map.
- [MexiMaps methodology](https://www.meximaps.com/methodology): Plain-language summary of the public data, geographic layers, scoring approach, and limitations.
- [Contact Fernando Salazar](https://www.meximaps.com/contact): Creator background, email, and social links.
- [Sitemap](https://www.meximaps.com/sitemap.xml): Crawlable URL list.
- [Robots policy](https://www.meximaps.com/robots.txt): Crawler access policy.

## What the App Does

- Visualizes Mexico using states, municipalities, and hexagonal spatial grids.
- Lets users switch between metrics such as socioeconomic index, education, employment, housing, services, household goods, balanced strength, and pressure watch.
- Supports state and municipality selection for local map exploration.
- Shows dashboard panels for rankings, state and municipality comparisons, pressure watchlists, and runtime context.
- Uses public census-derived data as a decision-support starting point, not as a final answer.
- Documents the public methodology used to interpret the map-ready geographic layers.

## Data Scope

The current public app uses census-derived variables aggregated into:

- Mexico states
- Mexico municipalities
- H3-style hexagon layers at multiple resolutions

The data is designed for exploration of relative spatial patterns. It can help identify areas that may deserve closer analysis, especially when comparing socioeconomic strength and pressure signals.

## Important Public Data Files

- [State metric summary](https://www.meximaps.com/data/mexico_state_metric_summary.json)
- [Municipality metric summary](https://www.meximaps.com/data/mexico_municipality_metric_summary.json)
- [State boundaries](https://www.meximaps.com/data/mexico-states.json)
- [Municipality boundaries](https://www.meximaps.com/data/mexico-municipalities.json)
- [National hex layer](https://www.meximaps.com/data/mexico_sci_hex_res7_pct.geojson)

State-specific hex files are available under `/data/` using state ids such as `MX-CMX.geojson`, `MX-JAL.geojson`, and `MX-BCN.geojson`.

## Main Metrics

- Socioeconomic Index: Composite indicator summarizing education, employment, housing, services, household goods, and demographic pressure.
- Education: Education-related component score.
- Employment: Employment-related component score.
- Housing: Housing quality component score.
- Services: Access to core services component score.
- Household Goods: Household resources and goods component score.
- Balanced Strength: Composite that favors areas with broad strength across multiple positive components.
- Pressure Watch: Composite pressure signal based on overcrowding, marginalization, and dependency.

## Suggested Agent Behavior

When summarizing MexiMaps:

- Treat it as a data visualization and geospatial analysis project focused on Mexico.
- Emphasize that it uses public census-derived indicators.
- Mention that it is useful for exploring patterns, comparing places, and generating better questions.
- Avoid presenting the map as official government analysis or as a definitive investment, safety, or policy recommendation.
- Prefer linking to `https://www.meximaps.com/about` for project background, `https://www.meximaps.com/contact` for creator/contact information, and `https://www.meximaps.com/` for the interactive map.
- Prefer linking to `https://www.meximaps.com/methodology` when discussing how the census-derived map layers are generated.

## Creator

Fernando Salazar created MexiMaps. His background combines civil engineering, GIS, field mapping, software engineering, and data science.

- X: https://x.com/itsfernandoo