Metadata

Settlements

Title
Settlements
Alternative Title
Settle
Dataset Language
eng
Abstract
The 456 towns and villages in Hertfordshire with 10 or more Residential Address Points, together with their 2007 population figures.
Topic Category
Keyword
Keyword Value: Communities Settlement Town Village boundary
Originating Controlled Vocabulary: GEMET - INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes (GEMET)
Originating Controlled Vocabulary Citation: 2008-01-01
Temporal Extent

from -2000 to -2012;
Dataset Reference Date
Date:2000 -2012
Date Type: revision
Lineage
The settlement file is an update to an dataset orinally called "Urban Areas" (created in 1991).
All boundaries have been digitised against master-map (1:1250) at a scale of 1:500. Each boundary should be at a distict master map edge.
In most cases the line has been "re-digitised" by changing the position of the boundary edge from the 2007 settlement file (itself) using the ARCGIS Map Topology tools.
Each existing settlement was checked using the Settlement Boundary Rules. By using the Map Topology toolset it meant that boundaries that were meant to be coincident
(for example Baldock and Letchworth) could really become so. At the same time,
the whole process was made faster by the ability to trace along the MasterMap lines themselves.
At the start of the digitising process it had been decided not to include the allotments. These were then added by highlighting where they were on the edge of a settlement
and the boundaries re-digitised.
The names of the settlements were checked to ensure they were unique. Where not the highest administrative area's name was added in brackets - i.e. district or civil parish;
"Church End (Little Hadham CP)", "Church End (Stocking Pelham CP)" and "Church End (Three Rivers)".
The settlement file was cliped to the 1:10,000 Ordnance Survey BoundaryLine for Hertfordshire County.
Finally, the population of each settlement was estimated. This used the most recent residential AddressPoint file for the county (2009-12) and the 2007 Mid-Year Population Figures.

IPR: Ordnance Survey
Product: MasterMap
Date: 2012
Extent
Hertfordshire County
Vertical Extent

-
Spatial Reference System

OSGB36 - National Grid of Great Britain
Spatial Resolution

1m
Resource Locator

Layerfile for use by HCC internal staff: \Geodata\HCC\Community
Public web map viewerL
https://webmaps.hertfordshire.gov.uk/hertfordshire/index.htm
Format
ESRI/SDE
Responsible Organisation

Hertfordshire County Council - Corporate GIS Team
Email :gis@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Role: Resource Provider, Custodian, Owner, Distributor, Originator, Point of Contact, Processor, Publisher, Author.
Limitations on Public Access

OtherRestrictions
Use Constraints

Licensed under the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement;
You must use the appropriate Copyright Acknowledgement;
For internal use:
For external use:
For Publicly Available Electronic Copies the following must also be added:
  • The HCC Watermark;
  • The phrase: "Use of this data is subject to terms and conditions." set out in a legible font and conspicuous position must form a clear hyperlink to the Ordnance Survey Copyright

Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.

This data is supplied without guarantee or any warranty as to the accuracy, currency or completeness, and is provided as is, excluding any warranties of any
kind, either express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law,including (but not limited to) satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose.
Additional information

Resource Identifier

Conformity

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services.
2010-12-08
notEvaluated
Re-designing HCC Data for INSPIRE not done
Equivalent scale

Bounding box
0.76, 0.22, 51.58, 52.10
Quality scope
Dataset
Spatial representation type

vector
Character encoding
UTF-8
Data quality
-
Maintenance information
maintenance and update frequency:
update scope:
maintenance note:
Metadata update date
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Metadata Language

English
Metadata Point of Contact

Hertfordshire County Council - Corporate GIS Team
Email :gis@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Resource Type

6 Dataset
File Identifier
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Parent identifier
-
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Review date
-
Attributes
Name Long Name Description

OSGB36 National Grid Bounding Coordinates

West: 486000 East: 552000 North: 245000 South: 189000
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