This website is available to everyone. It is free, interactive and simple to use and we hope you will find it useful. We want you to be able to retrieve whatever you want quickly and get to where you want to go.
The Enfield Observatory gives you access to a wide range of information in our Facts & Stats section – including tables (datasets) and documents – and to maps in the Map Zone. We have organised information into nine data themes and there is a separate page for each of these themes containing selected highlights and links.
For visitors who are keen to use either Facts & Stats or the Map Zone, we would advise you to read our Quick Help guide first. There are also fuller User Guides to both sections – these will give you step-by-step instructions from beginner level to advanced. Visitors who are more familiar with Observatory style sites may find the tooltips useful – these appear when placing the cursor over buttons and icons.
To find information you can browse the 'Content Structure' which contains folders of items or you can use the 'Meta Search Engine' –- in which you can enter fixed choices as well as type in search words – then click Go to see what's available. You can download datasets or documents to your own computer or choose to open up other websites that we have made links to.
You should find that the functions within Facts & Stats are simple and easy to use. One key function is the ability to map datasets, like in an atlas. You can also sort datasets by columns of numbers and you can graph tables very quickly. Maps and graphs can be immediately copied and pasted into your own documents on your computer. The most powerful function is to query two or more datasets, running a calculation on columns from each and then mapping the result!
This section of the site enables you to explore a number of aspects by providing you with an on-screen map. You can, if you want to, simply look at, and extract, basic mapping of Enfield. However, the Zone also provides six 'tools' to:-
- Search for a location of interest to you and have the map zoom in and centre on that location – go to the Address Search box, enter some details then click Search. Alternatively, you can choose from a number of preset Points of Interest.
- Add 'Map Layers' of information, by choosing from a list
- Find out what any such added map feature is – click the i tool below the map and then click on the feature (Info Search)
- Find the closest places or facilities to set locations – use Find My Nearest – you choose the search distance. You can then find out more information from the search results.
- Load a 'thematic map' (such as can be produced by Facts & Stats) to see which parts of Enfield have high or low numbers on the given theme. These are in the Map Layers list.
Jargon
Unavoidably, there is a certain amount of jargon used throughout the site and its content. To help you we have produced the following:-
- Glossary
- Guide to concepts
- Guide to geographies
- Guide to Statistical Terms
-- all available to view/download from the User Guides page.
Registration
No registration is necessary but you may wish to register to obtain extra benefits – please see the Register page.
Copyright
Please observe the laws of copyright as applicable in the United Kingdom. Enfield Council, as the provider of the site on behalf of the Enfield Strategic Partnership, cannot be held liable for any unauthorised reproduction or misrepresentation subsequently made by visitors to this site. Copyright owners are noted for the material included in Facts & Stats - click the i button under an item in a list or at the end of a dataset title and scroll down the page that then appears to see the 'Rights Copyright' entry.