NODES_FILE#

CSV file that contains the data about the nodes of the region. It contains four columns called x y, inhabitants and inhabitantsIncreasing. The x and y columns contain the x-coordinate and y-coordinate of the node, respectively. The inhabitants column provides the normalized number of inhabitants (i.e., the column-sum is equal to 1). The inhabitantsIncreasing column is simply the cumulative sum of the inhabitants column. The table illustrates an example.

Example NODES_FILE.#

postal code

x

y

inhabitants

inhabitantsIncreasing

1

100000.00

200000.00

0.10

0.10

2

100100.00

200100.00

0.50

0.60

3

100200.00

200200.00

0.40

1.00