Description: The Global Human Settlement Layer Urban Centres Database (GHS-UCDB) is the most complete database on cities to date, publicly released as an open and free dataset - GHS STAT UCDB2015MT GLOBE R2019A. The database represents the global status on Urban Centres in 2015 by offering cities location, their extent (surface, shape), and describing each city with a set of geographical, socio-economic and environmental attributes, many of them going back 25 or even 40 years in time. Urban Centres are defined in a consistent way across geographical locations and over time, applying the “Global Definition of Cities and Settlements” developed by the European Union to the Global Human Settlement Layer Built-up (GHS-BUILT) areas and Population (GHS-POP) grids. This report contains the description of the dimensions and the derived attributes that characterise the Urban Centres in the database. The document includes notes about methodology and sources. The GHS-UCDB contains information for more than 10,000 Urban Centres and it is the baseline data of the analytical results presented in the Atlas of the Human Planet.https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC115586/ghs_stat_ucdb2015mt_globe_r2019a_v1_0_web_1.pdfViews of this layer are used in web maps for the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.The following processes were performed by Esri: The layer was clipped to Scotland, fields were deleted and changed in the attribute table.
Description: This feature layer provides access to OpenStreetMap (OSM) point data of medical facilities for Europe, which is updated every 15 minutes with the latest edits. This hosted feature layer view is referencing a hosted feature layer of OSM point (node) data in ArcGIS Online that is updated with minutely diffs from the OSM planet file. This feature layer view includes amenity features defined as a query against the hosted feature layer where the amenity value is any of 'hospital', 'clinic', 'doctors', or 'pharmacy'.In OSM, amenities are useful and important facilities for visitors and residents, such as hospitals and clinics. These features are identified with an amenity tag. There are thousands of different tag values used in the OSM database. In this feature layer, unique symbols are used for the most common amenity tags used for medical facilities.Zoom in to large scales (e.g. Neighborhood level or 1:20k scale) to see the amenity features display. You can click on a feature to get the name of the amenity. The name of the amenity will display by default at very large scales (e.g. Building level of 1:2k scale). Labels can be turned off in your map if you prefer.The following processes were performed by Esri: The layer was clipped to Scotland, an attribute query was used to remove pharmacies, fields were changed and deleted in the attribute table.
Description: This feature layer provides access to OpenStreetMap (OSM) highways data for Europe, which is updated every 5 minutes with the latest edits. This hosted feature layer view is referencing a hosted feature layer of OSM line (way) data in ArcGIS Online that is updated with minutely diffs from the OSM planet file. This feature layer view includes highway features defined as a query against the hosted feature layer (i.e. highway is not blank).In OSM, a highway describes any kind of motorway, road, street or path. These features are identified with a highway tag. There are hundreds of different tag values for highway used in the OSM database. In this feature layer, unique symbols are used for several of the most popular highway types, while lesser used types are grouped in an "other" category.Zoom in to large scales (e.g. Streets level or 1:20k scale) to see the highway features display. You can click on a feature to get the name of the highway (if available). The name of the highway will display by default at large scales (e.g. Street level of 1:5k scale). Labels can be turned off in your map if you prefer.The following processes were performed by Esri: The layer was clipped to Scotland; an attribute query was used to remove all road_types other than motorway, trunk, primary, secondary, and tertiary; fields were deleted and changed in the attribute table.
Description: The Scottish Government (SG) Urban Rural Classification provides a consistent way of defining urban and rural areas across Scotland. The classification aids policy development and the understanding of issues facing urban, rural and remote communities. It is based upon two main criteria: (i) population as defined by National Records of Scotland (NRS), and (ii) accessibility based on drive time analysis to differentiate between accessible and remote areas in Scotland. The classification can be analysed in a two, three, six or eight fold form. The two-fold classification simply distinguishes between urban and rural areas through two categories, urban and rural, while the three-fold classification splits the rural category between accessible and remote. Most commonly used is the 6-fold classification which distinguishes between urban, rural, and remote areas through six categories. The 8-fold classification further distinguishes between remote and very remote regions. The Classification is normally updated on a biennial basis, with the current dataset reflective of the year 2020. Data for previous versions are available for download in ESRI Shapefile format.The following processes were performed by Esri: The simplify polygon tool was run to reduce the number of vertices, fields were deleted and changed in the attribute table.