Land use data for Edinburgh

Abstract

The GMES Urban Atlas has produced land use data for large urban zones with more than 100 000 inhabitants. The GIS data can be downloaded along with a map for the urban area covered and a report with the metadata. The data here is only for Edinburgh, but data for other large urban areas can be downloaded at http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas and symbolised with the Layer File contained here. Please refer to the attached document for this information. The data has been reprojected from Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area to OSGB. Please note that it is stated in the attached document that the original coordinate system is UTM 30, however, this is not the case. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2012-04-17 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.