GIS. Data bases. Eastern and Northern Europe

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GIS data base of Eastern and Northern Europe 1 : 1 000 000

In 1998 “Jana Seta Map Publishers” begun to develop detailed GIS data bases on territories of Eastern and Northern Europe. For many of remarkable cartographic and GIS companies Eastern Europe is a problematic region, therefore data and maped situation has lost its topicality.

During several years “Jana Seta Map Publishers” improved Eastern and Northern Europe data bases, developing precise and urgent GIS data sets on accordant territories. It was done using the latest cartographic issues, satellite images and statistics. Data base contains all necessary basic data layers, and also some unique and specific layers. Eastern and Northern Europe data bases hold information on confidential populated places and other unique data, unavailable until now. Geographical names of populated places and other objects are given in the original languages, as well as their alternative names. The structure of data base allows to improve it in accordance with requirements of client by adding new data layers or changing attributive information. Eastern and Northern Europe GIS data bases were used to develop Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and Finland maps.

Description

Data format:
ESRI Arc View shapefiles (*. shp + *.dbf, + *.shx), ESRI ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase (*.mdb)

Mathematical parameters:
Projection: Geographic; reference ellipsoid: GRS-1980; units: decimal degrees.

Degree of detailed elaboration:
The degree of detalization of the layers correspond to scale 1: 1 000 000.

List of data layers:
Populated places
Urban areas
Roads
Railroads
Hydrography
Administrative and territorial division
Ports
Airports
National parks and nature reservations
Swamps, salt marshes, sand areas
Hypsography
Coastal features
Historical and natural areas
Significant cultural and natural objects
Walls

Description of data layers:

POPULATED PLACES

Layer: Populated places (>19 300 objects: >600 alternative place names) (points)

name of the populated place without diacritical marks;

name of the populated place in the original language or in latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the populated place without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the populated place in the original language or in latin transcription with diacritical marks;

rank of the populated place depending on population (13 classes);

administrative rank of the populated place;

type of the populated place (rural settlement, township, city, city);

ICA0-3 state code of the populated place.
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Layer: Urban areas (polygons)

the built-up areas are given only for the populated places with population over 100,000 inhabitants in agglomeration.
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Layer: Roads (total length: >770 000 km; >70 000 objects) (lines)

road class (motorway, main road, main road in urban area, unpaved main road, general road, general road in urban area, unpaved general road, important road, important road in urban area, unpaved important road, other road, other road in urban area, unpaved other road).
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Layer: Railroads (total length: >165 000 km; >5000 objects) (lines)

railroad class (main railroad, other railroad).
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Layer: Polygons of the hydrographic network (>9500 objects; >1700 names; >100 alternative names) (polygons)

name of the water body without diacritical marks;

name of the water body in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the water body without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the water body in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

class of the water body (perennial inland water body, nonperennial inland water body, glacier);

type of the water body (freshwater, saltwater).

Layer: Lines of the hydrographic network (total length of lines: >650 000 km;>5500 unique river names; >300 unique alternative river names) (lines)

name of the waterflow without diacritical marks;

name of the waterflow in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the waterflow without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the waterflow in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of line (waterflow, inland water body shoreline, glacial limit);

status of line (perennial, nonperennial, defined, undefined or fluctuating);

class of the waterflow width (6 classes, depending on according width of line on printed map).

Layer: Names of the hydrographic features (>300 names) (points)

name of the object without diacritical marks;

name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of the object (sea, channel, strait, gulf, bay etc.).
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL DIVISION

Layer: Administrative territorial boundaries, coastline (total length: > 230 000 km) (lines)

type of line (coastline, undefined or fluctuating coastline, state boundary, boundary of 1st order administrative unit, boundary of 2nd order administrative unit);

line segment status (accordance to lines of hydrographic network).

Layer: Administrative territorial units (>2000 polygons; >500 names) (polygons)

name of the administrative territorial unit without diacritical marks;

name of the administrative territorial unit in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the administrative territorial unit without diacritical marks;

name of the administrative territorial unit in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of the administrative territorial unit;

state of the administrative territorial unit.
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Layer: Ports (> 350 objects) (points)
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Layer: Airports (> 530 objects) (points)

airport class (international airport, other airport).
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NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVATIONS

Layer: National parks and nature reservations (polygons)

name of the object without diacritical marks;

name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of the object (nature reservation, national park).

Layer: Boundaries of the national parks and nature reservations (total length: >35 000 km) (lines)

line segment status (accordance to lines of hydrographic network).
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SWAMPS, SALT MARSHES, SAND AREAS

Layer: Swamps, salt marshes, sand areas (> 4900 polygons, > 40 names) (polygons)

name of the object without diacritical marks;

name of the object in the original language or in latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object in the original language or in latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of the object (swamp, salt marsh, sad area).
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Layer: Hypsography points (>1500 objects: >900 names) (points)

name of hypsography point without diacritical marks;

name of hypsography point in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of hypsography point without diacritical marks;

alternative name of hypsography point in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of hypsography point (hypsography point with name, hypsography point without name, mountain-pass, depth point);

elevation of hypsography point (meters above (under) sea level).

Layer: Names of the orographic units (>420 names) (lines)

name of the orographic unit without diacritical marks;

name of the orographic unit in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the orographic unit without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the orographic unit in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

rank of the orographic unit (5 classes);

type of the orographic unit (mountains, plains).
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COASTAL FEATURES

Layer: Coastal features (>850 names) (points)

name of the object without diacritical marks;

name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of the object (peninsula, cape, island, group of islands, archipelago etc.).
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HISTORICAL AND NATURAL AREAS

Layer: Names of the historical and natural areas (>170 names) (lines)

name of the object without diacritical marks;

name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of the object (natural area, historical area).
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SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL AND NATURAL OBJECTS

Layer: Significant cultural and natural objects (>30 objects) (points)

name of the object without diacritical marks;

name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object without diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

type of the object (natural object, cultural object).
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Layer: Walls (>10 objects) (lines)

name of the object without diacritical marks;

name of the object in the original language or in Latin transcription with diacritical marks;

alternative name of the object without diacritical marks;

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