Data sources (all based on open data)

1_world_countries.gpkg - Natural Earth - https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

2_world_countries_shapefile.zip - Natural Earth - https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

3_world_cities.csv - simplemaps World Cities Database (CC BY 4.0) - https://simplemaps.com/data/world-cities

4_world_bank_population_data_1960-2019.xlsx - The World Bank - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL

5_GB_places_gpkg - Ordnance Survey - https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open

6_gb_small_area_population_points_2019.gpkg - Office for National Statistics - https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/ and National Records of Scotland - https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates

7_GB_motorways.gpkg - Ordnance Survey - https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open (I extracted this layer from the OS Open Roads product)

8_UK_LAD_with_population.gpkg - Office for National Statistics - https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/ and ONS Geography Portal - https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/

atlas_1_world_borders.gpkg - Natural Earth - https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (I edited this a bit)

atlas_2_world_cities_natranks.gpkg - simplemaps World Cities Database (CC BY 4.0) - https://simplemaps.com/data/world-cities (I converted their csv to a GeoPackage and added in a new field showing the population rank of urban areas within countries)

atlas_3_world_lakes.gpkg - Natural Earth - https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (I edited this a bit - e.g. merging some adjacent features)

atlas_4_world_countries_data_ATLAS.gpkg - from Natural Earth and World Bank data (this is the version for creating a QGIS Atlas - i.e. it is not the master file, it has some areas missing, such as Greenland)

atlas_5_world_countries_data_MASTER.gpkg - from Natural Earth and World Bank data (this is the master layer, from which dataset 12 was created)


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