Description - Collins

Derived from the same base as Premium, Lite is a simple digital map of the World/Europe in vector format containing boundaries, capital cities, country names and relief contours only. This simple digital World/Europe map helps you to

Produce simple World/Europe political or physical maps using your desktop mapping or GIS software.

Create World/Europe, Continental or Regional scale backdrop maps on which to overlay your own information.

Include simple World/Europe scale overview maps in your GIS or Internet Mapping application.

Benefits

Lite matches the high levels of accuracy, political rigour and vertical integrity found in Premium and Regular, while the clarity and simplicity of the structure and content make it exceptionally easy to deploy and use.

Layers

ADM - Administrative layer. Contains all international boundaries. Also contains the coastline. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named adm_p, adm_l.
CONT - Contours layer. Contains all land and sea contours. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named cont_p, cont_l.
TWN - Town layer. Contains capital cities of all countries. Comes supplied in vector format as a point file named twn_p.

World/Europe Regular Overview

Derived from the same underlying cartographic database as Premium but simpler in structure and content, Regular gives you a seamless and authoritative digital map of the World/Europe in vector format, optimised for use in interactive digital mapping applications. The simpler feature coding helps you to

Easily incorporate World/Europe data into your desktop mapping, GIS applications or Internet Mapping systems.

Create accurate and attractive maps, ideally suited for incorporation into digital applications.

Combine with your own geo-referenced data to create business or environmental applications.

Visualise global geography.

Benefits

Regular matches the high levels of accuracy, political rigour and vertical integrity found in Premium, while the simpler feature coding and content make it quicker to deploy and easier to use.

Layers

World/Europe Premium Overview

Designed by professional cartographers, Collins Bartholomew Premium is a seamless and up to date digital map of the World/Europe, backed by a comprehensive World/Europe Gazetteer. Sophisticated feature coding and impressive depth of content helps you to

Create attractive and accurate print quality maps of anywhere in the World/Europe, to your own specification.

Perform complex GIS analysis on a global scale, in conjunction with your own data if required.

Quickly locate places by name.

Visualise global geography

Benefits

Designed and maintained by the team behind the prestigious Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, the accuracy and authority of the content is second to none.

Complete cartographic feature coding gives you enormous flexibility when designing maps for display on screen or for output as printed maps. For example, over 30 different types of road are identified, while the coding for rivers models their relative importance both between and within drainage basins.

Boundaries are rigorously checked and verified in order to give an accurate picture of World/Europe political geography as it is today. First order internal administrative divisions are included for more than 120 countries, while the gazetteer adds even more first order qualifiers as well as including second order and physical island qualifiers for many entries.

The rich feature coding also supports complex GIS applications, where detailed knowledge of the earth’s surface is required.

Vertical integrity between content in different layers is maintained. For example, towns have roads going to them meaning that you can not only find a place, but how to get there as well.

Suitable uses

There are many possible uses of the Premium dataset, these include...

High end cartographic production

Reference mapping

GIS

Placename querying

Web mapping

Multimedia applications

Layers

ADM - Administrative layer. Contains all international boundaries, and where available, first order administrative boundaries. Also contains the coastline. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named adm_p and adm_l.
CONT - Contours layer. Contains all land and sea contours. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named cont_p, cont_l.
DES - Desert layer. Contains polygons and linework for sandy deserts and rocky deserts. Also contains data for lava flows. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named des_p and des_l.
DIST - Distance layer. Contains point data with attributes on road distances. Comes supplied in vector format as a point file named dist_l.
DRA - Drainage layer. Contains river and drainage network characteristics including permanent and impermanent features. All features coded in an exhaustive structure to allow the mapping of a river from source to confluence. Comes supplied in vector format as a linework file named dra_l.
DRT - Drainage text layer. Contains linework that is used to name drainage networks. Comes supplied in vector format as a linework file named drt_l.
HTS - Heights layer. Contains data for summits, mountain passes, volcanoes and spot depths. Comes supplied in vector format as a point file named hts_p.
LNS - Lines layer. Contains data used to describe linear features such as cease fire lines and walls. Comes supplied in vector format as a linework file named lns_l.
NPK - National parks layer. Contains polygons of national parks. The polygons are attributed with the national park's name. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named npk_p and npk_l.
PTS - Points layer. Contains point features that are too small to be drawn as polygons. Includes features such as road and rail tunnel entrances, road number symbols, oil and gas wells and oases. Comes supplied in vector format as a point file named pts_p.
RDS - Roads layer. Contains linework features that describe the road network. Comes supplied in vector format as a linework file named rds_l.
RES - Reserves layer. Contains polygons of reserves. The polygons are attributed with the reserve's name. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named res_p and res_l.
RFS - Rail and ferries layer. Contains linework features that describe the rail and ferry networks of the world/Europe. Comes supplied in vector format as a linework file named rfs_l.
RPK - Regional parks layer. Contains polygons of regional parks. The polygons are attributed with the regional park's name. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named rpk_p and rpk_l.
TWN - Town layer. Contains point locations of all town features. The point feature also holds information on its population band and the town's administrative status. The absolute population is also given if known. Comes supplied in vector format as a point file named twn_p.
TXT - Text layer. Contains point and linework data that are used to display named features that don't have a distinct coordinate location like mountain ranges or physical areas. Comes supplied in vector format as a point file and a linework file named txt_p and txt_l.
URB - Urban layer. Contains polygon features used to display built-up areas. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named urb_p and urb_l.
WAT - Water layer. Contains data used to display and describe water features. The polygons are attributed with the water feature's name, if known. This includes lakes (permanent and impermanent), marshes, wide rivers and lagoons. Comes supplied in vector format as a polygon file and a linework file named wat_p and wat_l.

World/Europe Locator Overview

Collins Bartholomew Locator is a comprehensive gazetteer of places. Each place has accurate lat/long coordinates with country, admin division and island locators also included. Alternative name forms and spelling variations further improve your ability to pinpoint exactly the place you are looking for. This gazetteer helps you to

Uniquely locate cities, towns, villages and physical features.

Discover which country, admin division and island places are located in.

Find out the administrative significance and population band for all settlements.

Get accurate coordinates for all places.

Benefits

Integrates easily with Collins Bartholomew vector data products through use of a shared unique id number

Complex feature coding for all places assigns each town an admin status and population range

Includes physical features, making searching for mountains, lakes, rivers etc easy.

All names are in local form, with English and other alternatives included to further ease searching.

Ideal for driving on-line geographical searches.

Data contents
Version 6 of the World Gazetteer contains 299,438 places, comprising 212,922 towns and 86,516 non-town features. Geographical extent is global.

Version 6 of the European Gazetteer contains 156,919 places, comprising 116,999 towns and 39,920 non-town features. The extent is Europe, covering the following countries: Albania, Andorra, Arquipélago da Madeira, Arquipélago dos Açores, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Channel Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, English Channel, Estonia, Europe, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Irish Sea, Islas Canarias, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Serbia and Montenegro and Russian Federation to 60 degrees east.

Fields Included:

Field Description Coverage Example1 Example2 Example3

Link id The unique identifier for the feature, links to other Collins Bartholomew data sets. All places 219437 679577 1053082

Map name The name that would generally be shown on a map, usually in local form. All places Köln Mount Domett Waipi`o Acres

Index name The name that would generally be used in an index, physical names are permuted. All places Köln Mount Domett Waipi`o Acres

Main alternative name The main alternative name. Generally these are English conventional names in common usage, in rare cases their may be more than one, separated by commas. 1262 towns
368 non-towns Cologne

Other alternative name Comma separated list of other alternative names. 8574 towns
4159 non-towns Colonia Agrippina Te Huruhuru

Country The country the place falls within. All places Germany United States of America New Zealand

Admin1 The first order admin division the place falls within. 207416 towns
36435 non-towns Nordrhein-Westfalen Hawaii

Admin2 The second order admin division the place falls within. 75688 towns
460 non-towns Honolulu County

Physical locator The physical locator for the place, normally an island name. 6121 towns
3854 non-towns South Island O`ahu

Feature class name The Collins Bartholomew feature classification in text format. Note that this assigns each town to a population band, and identifies its administrative significance. All places 2ND ORDER ADMIN CAPITAL 500,000 TO 1 MILLION SUMMIT TOWN 5000 TO 10,000 NOT ADMIN CAP

Feature class ID The ID of the Collins Bartholomew feature classification, links to other Collins Bartholomew data sets. All places 196490 203 196520

Descriptor The term which would normally be used to describe the place in an index. 0 towns
All non-towns MOUNTAIN

Population The (latest) population for the place. 25717 towns
1378 non-towns 956690 5304

Height The height of the place (in metres). 0 towns
12258 non-towns 1623

Latitude decimal Latitude coordinate in decimal form. All places 50.93362 -41.062 21.46766

Longitude decimal Longitude coordinate in decimal form. All places 6.95533 172.308 -158.01622

Latitude degree Latitude degree. All places 50 41 21

Latitude minute Latitude minutes. All places 56 4 28

Latitude hemi Latitude hemisphere, N or S. All places N S N

Longitude degree Longitude degrees. All places 6 172 158

Longitude minute Longitude minutes. All places 57 18 1

Longitude hemi Longitude hemisphere, E or W. All places E E W

World/Europe Scene Overview

Collins Bartholomew Scene is a global digital map in raster format, consistent in scale, content and specification across the whole World/Europe. It is available in either lat/long or Mercator projections. This raster map helps you to

Visualise the entire Earth in a consistent way.

Build applications which combines this World/Europe map with your own GIS data.

Benefits
Created by cartographers, Scene gives you a map of incredible accuracy and clarity. Optimised for use on-line, file size is minimised without compromising the quality of the image. Scene is fully geo-referenced allowing you to use it as backdrop for your own location based data sets.

Contents
World/Europe reference style mapping of the entire earth in a single consistent image. Available in a choice of projections, and in all the popular of raster data formats. These raster images are in either Geographic coordinates (longitude/latitude) or in Mercator projection.