Populated places

General description

GeoDataset name: Populated places

This dataset is prepared from the 'browse' data set included with the Digital Chart of the World, and includes the area north of 50°N and from 0°E eastwards to 150°W. The data set is in scale 1:31 mill.

Technical description

Shapefile name: ppt31pnt.shp

Path: <NSR_DATA>\basecart\dcw_31

GeoDataset type: Shapefile with Point features.

Coordinate system: Latitude/longitude in decimal degrees

Label field: Ppptname

* Populated places

31 Points, 6 descriptive fields.

Fields: [<Name>] -- <Alias> (type of field)

[Ppt31dd_] -- "Ppt31dd_" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Ppt31dd_id] -- "Ppt31dd_id" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Pppttype] -- "City type" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Ppptname] -- "City Name" (String, max. 40 characters)

[X_coord] -- "Longitude" (Numeric, 3 decimals)

Longitude in decimal degrees

[Y_coord] -- "Latitude" (Numeric, 3 decimals)

Latitude in decimal degrees