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World Digital Map Data - World Premium
Map data overview
Designed by professional cartographers, Collins Bartholomew World Premium is a seamless and up to date digital map of the World, backed by a comprehensive World Gazetteer. Sophisticated feature coding and impressive depth of content helps you to
- Create attractive and accurate print quality maps of anywhere in the World, 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 worldwide.
- Visualise global geography
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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 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 World Premium dataset, these include...
- High end cartographic production
- Reference mapping
- GIS
- World placename querying
- Web mapping
- Multimedia applications
Data Layers
| Layer | Layer Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AdmA | Administrative polygon layer | Polygons representing administrative areas. Includes admin division name and ISO/FIPS codes. |
| AdmL | Administrative linework layer | Administrative boundaries, mostly to 1st order internal admin divisions. Includes the coastline. |
| AirP | Airports point layer | Points representing international and regional airports. |
| ContA | Contour polygon layer | Polygons representing height bands for map layer colouring. Height bands in metres. |
| ContL | Contour linework layer | Contour lines. Heights are in metres. |
| DesA | Desert polygon layer | Polygons representing desert areas and lava flows |
| DistP | Distance point layer | Points representing road distance markers and road distances (in kilometres, except USA which is in miles). |
| DrtL | Drainage text linework layer | Cartographically-placed arcs showing river names. |
| HtsP | Heights point layer | Points representing features with height, e.g. mountain summits, volcanoes. |
| LnsL | Linear linework layer | Miscellaneous linear features, e.g. pipelines, walls, reefs |
| NpkA | National Park polygon layer | Polygons representing national parks. |
| NunA | Nunatak polygon layer | Polygons representing areas covered by nunataks. |
| ParkP | Park points layer | Points representing national parks, nature reserves or regional parks that are too small at mapping scale to show as polygons. |
| PtsP | Point features layer | Miscellaneous point features. |
| RdsL | Road linework layer | Roads, classified by status. |
| RdsP | Road point layer | Points representing features associated with roads. Road numbers are included on this layer to assist with their cartographic placement for map production purposes. |
| ResA | Reserve polygon layer | Polygons representing nature and ethnic reserves. Includes some regional parks in North America. |
| RfsL | Railways linework layer | Railways and ferry routes. |
| RfsP | Railway point layer | Points representing features associated with railways or ferries. |
| TwnP | Towns point layer | Towns, coded by status (administrative capital, national to 4th order) and by their population band. Each town is also attributed with the country and administrative division it falls within, if known. |
| TxtL | Text linework layer | Cartographically-placed arcs representing curved map text, e.g. area names, mountain ranges, water features. |
| TxtP | Text point layer | Cartographically-placed points representing map text, e.g. area names, mountain ranges, water features. |
| UrbA | Urban area polygon layer | Polygons representing urban areas. |
| WatA | Water polygon layer | Polygons representing water features, e.g. lakes. |
| WatAL | Water area linework layer | Outlines of polygons representing water features, e.g. lakes. |
| WatL | Water linework layer | Linear drainage features, e.g. rivers and canals. Glacier ‘form’ lines are included on this layer to enhance the cartographic representation of glaciers. Rivers are classified by tributary (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Other) and by closeness to the sea (A, B, C, D with A being at river mouth, D being at river source). Canals, aqueducts, and wadies are classified by importance (A, B or C). |
| WatP | Water point layer | Points associated with drainage features. |
Data Formats
The data we supply is in ESRI Shape format or MapInfo TAB format. If you require an alternative format then don't hesitate to contact us and we will endeavour to supply the format you require.
The Shape files for World Premium are 667Mbytes. The latest release date - September 2009
If you require further information on this or any of our other products and services, then please contact either our technical support group or our sales team.
Pricing
| Licence term | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year | 2 years (pa) | 3 years (pa) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-user | £1,031 | £1,650 | £2,750 | £1,792 | £1,375 |
| Multi-user 10 | £2,063 | £3,300 | £5,500 | £4,950 | £4,675 |
| Multi-user 50 | £2,578 | £4,125 | £6,875 | £6,188 | £5,844 |
| Multi-user 100 | £3,094 | £4,950 | £8,250 | £7,425 | £7,013 |
| Corporate (CALL – fees from) | £4,125 | £6,600 | £11,000 | £9,900 | £9,350 |
| Internet (CALL – fees from) | £1,031 | £1,650 | £2,750 | £2,475 | £2,338 |
- Single-user: Internal use only by 1 user. Unlimited internal business use hard copy dissemination. After the first year, single-user 1 year licences are discounted by 50%.
- Multi-user 10: Internal use only by up to 10 concurrent users either accessing the data from individual PCs or via an intranet. Unlimited internal business use hard copy dissemination.
- Multi-user 50: Internal use only by up to 50 users either accessing the data from individual PCs or via an intranet. Unlimited internal business use hard copy dissemination.
- Multi-user 100: Internal use only by up to 100 users either accessing the data from individual PCs or via an intranet. Unlimited internal business use hard copy dissemination.
- Corporate: Internal use by an unlimited number of users either accessing the data from individual PCs or via an intranet. Unlimited internal business use hard copy dissemination. External - unlimited use of data within free to access, public facing web applications.
- Internet: Use of data within free to access, public facing web applications. Data may reside and be accessed from a single internet server utilising a Unique Reference Locator (URL) domain address. Multi domain names may exist for the single internet server.
All fees above are subject to VAT where appropriate.
All fees include updates when available.
Minimum order value - £150 plus VAT.
Samples
Examples
Below are some examples of mapping created from the World premium dataset.
Sample mapping from the Collins Discovery Atlas
Sample mapping from the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World 11th Edition
