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World Urban Areas - Esri

World Urban Areas represents the major urban areas of the world as shaded polygons.

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Date ( Revision )
2015-04-08T00:00:00
Identifier
http://datacore.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/metadata/9fedb41a-7920-4491-a97a-5a1b847198e3
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose
The urban area polygons come from the source data used in DeLorme's cartographic data layers. They are primarily intended for general visual representation of urbanized areas and do not represent a complete set of all world populated places. All polygons are not revisited annually.
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Esri Data & Maps - Esri Data & Maps

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords ( Theme )
  • GRID core datasets
  • global
  • settlemement
  • agglomeration
  • city
  • mapping
Keywords ( Place )
  • World
Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
Geodata are redistributable without a Value-Added Software Application with proper metadata and source/copyright attribution to the respective data vendor(s): http://www.esri.com/~/media/Files/Pdfs/legal/pdfs/redist_rights_103.pdf?la=en
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000000
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Society
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
OnLine resource
grid_data_core:esri_urban_areas ( OGC:WMS )
OnLine resource
Data download (WFS - shape ZIP) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Data download (WFS - shape ZIP)

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

File identifier
9fedb41a-7920-4491-a97a-5a1b847198e3 XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-05-02T08:30:51
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
UNEP/GRID-Geneva - Andrea de Bono

 
 

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Keywords

GRID core datasets agglomeration city global mapping settlemement

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