New free gis database: World database of large urban areas, 1950-2050

Available for download - a new georeferenced database of large urban areas 1950-2050 with historic estimates and projections of population figures. The data for the world's largest cities is available as maps, for Google Earth, in an animation video and as GIS download.Nordpil is happy to share data that we prepared for a project earlier in 2009. Using the data request service provided by the UN Population Division, we have assembled and georeferenced the data from the World Urbanization Prospects, 2007 revision. This database represents the historic, current and future estimates and