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World Populated Places, 1:10 million (2012)
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Content Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- World Populated Places, 1:10 million (2012)
- Originator
- Patterson, Tom
- Originator
- Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn
- Publisher
- North American Cartographic Information Society
- Publication Date
- 2012-11-08
- Edition
- 2.0.0
- Identifier
- http://purl.stanford.edu/pv686pw3407
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Natural Earth
- Other Citation Details
- These data were downloaded from the Natural Earth website (http://www.naturalearthdata.com) on June 15, 2014.
- Abstract
- This point shapefile depicts point symbols with name attributes for populated areas worldwide, including some capitals, major cities and town and smaller towns in sparsely inhabited regions. LandScan derived population estimates are provided for 90% of cities. The other 10% are often towns in sparsely inhabited areas. Populations fewer than 200 persons per square kilometer were removed from this layer and classified as rural. Population totals account for the "metropolitan" population rather than it's administrative boundary population. Regional significance was favored over population census in determining the selection of places. Scale rankings can be used to filter the number of towns that appear on a map. These data are represented at 1:10,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the Natural Earth Collection (v.2.0.0).
- Purpose
- Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10, 1:50 and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
- Scale Denominator
- 10000000
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2012-11-08T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -179.589979
- East
- 179.383304
- North
- 82.483323
- South
- -90
- ISO Topic Category
- society
- location
- Place Keyword
-
Earth (Planet)
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- geonames
- Theme Keyword
- Countries
- Cities and towns
- Metropolitan areas
-
Population statistics
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- lcsh
- Legal Constraints
- Use Restrictions
- otherRestrictions
- Other Restrictions
- All versions of Natural Earth raster and vector map data are in the public domain.
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- unknown
- Collection
- Collection Title
- Natural Earth
- URL
- http://purl.stanford.edu/qr604qw5282
- Originator
- Patterson, Tom
- Originator
- Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn
- Publisher
- North American Cartographic Information Society
- Publication Date
- 2012-11-08
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Kelso, N.V. and Patterson, T. (2012). World Populated Places, 1:10 million (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com.
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso
- Position Name
- Project manager
- nathaniel@naturalearthdata.com
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 4326
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 8.2.6
Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- Population estimates were derived from the LANDSCAN dataset maintained and distributed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These data were converted from raster to vector and pixels with fewer than 200 persons per square kilometer were removed from the dataset as they were classified as rural. Once urban pixels were selected, these pixels were aggregated into contiguous units. Concurrently Thiessen polygons were created based on the selected city points. The Thiessen polygons were used to intersect the contiguous city boundaries to produce bounded areas for the cities. As a result, our estimates capture a metropolitan and micropolitan populations per city regardless of administrative units.
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Distributor
- Stanford Geospatial Center
- Online Access
- http://purl.stanford.edu/pv686pw3407
- Protocol
- http
- Name
- ne_10m_populated_places.shp
- Function
- download
Content Information
- Feature Catalog Description
- Compliance Code
- false
- Language
- eng
- Included With Dataset
- true
- Feature Catalog Citation
- Title
- Feature Catalog for World Populated Places, 1:10 million (2012)
- Publication Date
- 2012-11-08
- Feature Catalog Identifier
- 310812f6-e367-41bb-92fa-8aa5771fbe1e
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- point
- Vector Object Count
- 7322
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- edu.stanford.purl:pv686pw3407
- Parent Identifier
- http://purl.stanford.edu/qr604qw5282.mods
- Dataset URI
- http://purl.stanford.edu/pv686pw3407
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2022-04-27
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8