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Europe Urbanized Areas, 2008
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- Originator
- ESRI
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Title
- Europe Urbanized Areas, 2008
- Edition
- 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ESRI Data Maps
- Issue Identification
- 2008 World, Europe, United States, Canada, and Mexico
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/esri_2008_europe_urban.zip
- Abstract
- Europe Urbanized Areas is a polygon theme representing the urbanized areas of Europe. Attribute information includes the name, country, type and size of urban area. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data Maps collection.
- Purpose
- Europe Urbanized Areas provides a base map layer of urbanized areas for Europe.
- Supplemental Information
- Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:100,000.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2006
- Bounding Box
- West
- -25.676900
- East
- 64.117300
- North
- 78.229800
- South
- 27.903700
- Theme Keyword
- polygon
- urban
- urban areas
- cities
- Towns
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- society
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- Europe
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2006
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For current Columbia affiliates only.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Annually
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- ESRI
- Delivery Point
- 380 New York Street
- City
- Redlands
- State
- California
- Postal Code
- 92373-8100
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 909-793-2853
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 909-793-5953
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- info@esri.com
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.2.1350
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format using either ESRI SDC Data Development Kit Professional 2 (DDKP2) or tools in ArcGIS. The SDC data set is then loaded into ArcSDE to verify and validate the geometry.
- Completeness Report
- After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- The positional accuracy is unknown.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- AND International Publishers N.V. (AND Products B.V.)
- Publication Date
- 2006
- Title
- AND Global Road Data
- Edition
- 2006H2-V1.0
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- AND Global Road Data
- Issue Identification
- 2006H2-V1.0
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Publisher
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- Other Citation Details
- Level: Europe (Level 2)
- Online Linkage
- http://www.and.com
- Source Scale Denominator
- 250000
- Type of Source Media
- DVD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2006
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Attribute and geospatial data
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 9911
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257224
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- urban
- Entity Type Definition
- The polygons represent the urbanized areas of Europe.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- ESRI
- Attributes
- ObjectID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- NAME
- The name of the urbanized area. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- NATION
- The code for the country in which the urbanized area is located.
- 7
- Russian Federation
- 30
- Greece
- 31
- Netherlands
- 32
- Belgium
- 33
- France
- 34
- Spain
- 36
- Hungary
- 39
- Italy
- 40
- Romania
- 41
- Switzerland
- 43
- Austria
- 44
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- 45
- Denmark
- 46
- Sweden
- 47
- Norway
- 48
- Poland
- 49
- Germany
- 90
- Turkey
- 247
- Aland Islands
- 298
- Faeroe Islands
- 350
- Gibraltar
- 351
- Portugal
- 352
- Luxembourg
- 353
- Ireland
- 354
- Iceland
- 355
- Albania
- 356
- Malta
- 357
- Cyprus
- 358
- Finland
- 359
- Bulgaria
- 370
- Lithuania
- 371
- Latvia
- 372
- Estonia
- 373
- Republic of Moldova
- 374
- Armenia
- 375
- Belarus
- 376
- Andorra
- 377
- Monaco
- 378
- San Marino
- 380
- Ukraine
- 381
- Serbia and Montenegro
- 385
- Croatia
- 386
- Slovenia
- 387
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 389
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- 390
- Vatican
- 420
- Czech Republic
- 421
- Slovakia
- 423
- Liechtenstein
- 744
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
- 830
- Channel Islands
- 833
- Isle of Man
- 994
- Azerbaijan
- 995
- Georgia
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- CNTRYNAME
- The name of the country in which the urbanized area is located. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- TYPE
- The type of urbanized area.
- City
- The type of the urbanized area is city.
- Metropolis
- The type of the urbanized area is metropolis.
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- SQKM
- The area of the urbanized area in square kilometers. (Calculated areas for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SDC
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090709
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212) 854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998