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Country borders and shorelines around the SAFE Project

<b>Description: </b><p>This dataset contains regional country boundaries around the SAFE project from two online sources.<br><br><b>Digital chart of the world</b> from <a href="https://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:Digital_Chart_of_the_World">https://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:Digital_Chart_of_the_World</a>.<br><br><b>A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (GSHHG)</b>. This is a large vector GIS database containing shorelines for seas and lakes and other vector data layers at a number of different resolutions. The full archive was downloaded from: &lt; href='http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/'&gt;http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/<br><br>Details of the file extraction and coverage can be found here: <a href="https://www.safeproject.net/dokuwiki/safe_gis/country_shoreline">https://www.safeproject.net/dokuwiki/safe_gis/country_shoreline</a>.</p><p><b>Project: </b>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <a href="https://www.safeproject.net/projects/project_view/1"><b>SAFE CORE DATA</b></a></p><p><b>XML metadata: </b>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available <a href="https://www.safeproject.net/datasets/xml_metadata?id=3492126">here</a></p><p><b>Files: </b>This dataset consists of 2 files: SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx, SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip</p><p><b>SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx</b></p><p>This file only contains metadata for the files below</p><p><b>SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip</b></p><p>Description: Contains three shapefiles of local country borders</p><p>This file contains 3 data tables:</p><ol><li><p></p><p><b>Feature properties</b> (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_DCW)</p><p>Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties</p><p>Number of fields: 13</p><p>Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).</p><p>Fields: </p><ul><li><b>ID</b>: Feature ID (Field type: id)</li><li><b>FIPS10_4</b>: FIPS country code (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>COUNTRY</b>: Country name (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>CONTCODE</b>: Continent code (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>CONT</b>: Continent name (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>F_CODE</b>: Geo code (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>F_CODE_DES</b>: Description of F code (Field type: comments)</li><li><b>OW_ABBREV</b>: OW country codes (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>ISO_A2</b>: Two letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>ISO_A3</b>: Three letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>VMAP_ID</b>: Base vector map source ids (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>FACTBK_CTY</b>: Factbook Country name (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>Fips2</b>: FIPS 2 character code (Field type: categorical)</li></ul><p></p></li><li><p></p><p><b>Feature properties</b> (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_f)</p><p>Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties</p><p>Number of fields: 6</p><p>Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).</p><p>Fields: </p><ul><li><b>id</b>: Feature ID (Field type: id)</li><li><b>level</b>: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)</li><li><b>source</b>: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>parent_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)</li><li><b>sibling_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)</li><li><b>area</b>: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)</li></ul><p></p></li><li><p></p><p><b>Feature properties</b> (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_i)</p><p>Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties</p><p>Number of fields: 6</p><p>Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).</p><p>Fields: </p><ul><li><b>id</b>: Feature ID (Field type: id)</li><li><b>level</b>: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)</li><li><b>source</b>: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)</li><li><b>parent_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)</li><li><b>sibling_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)</li><li><b>area</b>: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)</li></ul><p></p></li></ol><p><b>Date range: </b>2010-10-01 to 2019-10-01</p><p><b>Latitudinal extent: </b>-11.0049 to 21.1200</p><p><b>Longitudinal extent: </b>95.0000 to 141.0200</p>

ShareScore

36/100

Overall dataset sharing score

Score breakdown

These five areas show where the dataset supports — or may limit — practical reuse.

Stewardship
8
Harmonization
4
Access
16
Reuse readiness
8
Engagement
0

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