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Map OpenStreetMap 2015 global data layers Title from gis format documentation: OpenStreetMap data in layered GIS format / OpenStreetMap Shapefiles

[ 2015 Africa dataset ]

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About this Item

Title

  • OpenStreetMap 2015 global data layers

Other Title

  • Title from gis format documentation: OpenStreetMap data in layered GIS format
  • OpenStreetMap Shapefiles

Names

  • OpenStreetMap (Project), cartographer

Created / Published

  • Karlsruhe : Geofabrik GmbH, 2024.

Genre

  • World maps
  • Digital maps
  • Vector data
  • Geospatial data
  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  Data is structured into eight geographic regions: Africa, Antarctica, Australia-Oceania, Asia, Central America, Europe, North America, and South America.
  • -  Global data for 2015 is available in shapefile format, structured by geographic region and by theme. Due to the 2 GB file size restriction on shapefiles, some thematic data compressed files will contain multiple shapefiles.
  • -  Geospatial vector data layers exported from OpenStreetMap on 01/01/2015, processed by Geofabrik into shapefile formats.
  • -  "© OpenStreetMap contributors."

Medium

  • datasets

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3200

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024586115

Rights Advisory

  • OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF). The documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf

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Openstreetmap , Cartographer. OpenStreetMapglobal data layers. Karlsruhe: Geofabrik GmbH, 2015. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024586115/.

APA citation style:

Openstreetmap, C. (2015) OpenStreetMapglobal data layers. Karlsruhe: Geofabrik GmbH. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024586115/.

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Openstreetmap , Cartographer. OpenStreetMapglobal data layers. Karlsruhe: Geofabrik GmbH, 2015. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024586115/>.