[Geowanking] urban areas database

[Sean Gorman]

Uploaded the data to GeoCommons if folks need access in other formats

http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/11533
http://finder.geocommons.com/overlays/21323

Best
Sean

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On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:45 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Hugo Ahlenius <hugo.ahlenius at nordpil.com 
> > wrote:
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> In case it might be useful to anyone - I worked with some UN  
>> Population Division statistics recently, and in the process I  
>> geocoded all the urban areas in the stats. I thought I could  
>> release this enhanced database to the community, to give something  
>> back for all the great free resources that I use in my daily life.
>>
>> The data is here, and I have smacked a CC license on the database.
>
> Many thanks for your generosity, however, in order to make the data
> really usable by anyone anywhere in the world, please consider
> releasing the data under a public domain waiver such as PDDL, or
> better yet, CC0, especially since your data may have copyrightable
> elements. CC0 is the most appropriate waiver for such data. CC
> licenses are not appropriate for data, and are discouraged by CC
> itself.
>
>
>> It is available for download in various formats, and I also created  
>> an animation video clip, a kml-file and a nice looking map.
>>
>> The data contains a database of large urban areas for the whole  
>> world, 1950-2050.
>>
>> http://nordpil.com/go/resources/world-database-of-large-cities/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hugo
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Hugo Ahlenius
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
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