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I have a shapefile of polygons which have an amount of population, I need to divide each of these polygons into small ones with nearly equal population. So I thought attributing points on each area inside each polygon and attributing a weight depending on its density.

After that I have to draw voronoi polygons based on the points drawn before and their weights to get these small areas that should be equally populated.

I tried to draw them in qgis but all I get is polygons with equal weights.

How to draw weighted voronoi polygons in QGIS?

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  • Related post (for Arcgis, but the answer might be useful anyway): How can I create weighted Thiessen polygons?
    – ArMoraer
    Commented May 6, 2016 at 10:25
  • @ArMoraer the thing is that I'm only using Ubuntu, I guess Arcgis isn't going to help here. I'll try with R maybe if I get somewhere I'll post it. thanks for the link Commented May 6, 2016 at 13:19
  • If you read the answer closely, you'll see that it doesn't really rely on Arcgis-specific tools. You can do the same thing in R, as you mentioned, or in QGIS (though it may require some scripting skills if you have a lot of input points).
    – ArMoraer
    Commented May 6, 2016 at 13:25

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Thanks to ArMoraer's suggestions I made a little python script based on PyQGIS and GDAL to generate a weighted voronoi diagram from a vector layer.

Here it is on github

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