GIS4Schools data

Dataset for the practice lectures of the GIS4Schools project.

The dataset refers to the geographic area between North-West Italy (Lombardy and Piedmont) and South Switzerland (Ticino Canton), including Maggiore, Como and Lugano lakes. Geographic data projection is the WGS84 UTM32 North (EPSG:32632). The dataset consists of a GeoPackage file (containing both vector and raster layers) and two QGIS layer style files (.qml) with the raster layers symbology (vector layers symbology is stored directly in the GeoPackage). 

• GIS4Schools_GeoPackage.gpkg, containing the following layers:
  • Lakes: Vector layer that represents the main lakes in the area of interest;
  • Land_Cover: Raster layer that represents the land cover classes defined within Corine Land Cover 2018;
  • Municipalities_OSM: Vector layer that defines the municipalities' boundaries within the area of interest;
  • Population: Table containing the number of inhabitants of the municipalities around the lakes.
  • River_network: Vector layer that represents the main river network within the area of interest;
  • Temperature_distribution: Raster layer that represents the temperature distribution of the lakes;
  • Temperature: Vector layer representing the temperature distribution of the lakes.
• Land_Cover_style.qml: Symbology of the raster Land_Cover.
• Temperature_distribution_style.qml: Symbology of the raster Temperature_distribution.

Data are derived from different sources. Sources and licenses are summarized in the following.

• Lakes: vector layer derived from:
  • Lombardy Geoportal (Open Data Regione Lombardia – Lago 10000 CT10; license: CC BY - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode),
  • Piedmont Geoportal (Geoportale Regione Piemonte – Idrografia 1:100.000 – Laghi – Storico; license: CC BY - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.it),
  • opendata.swiss (Carta base generalizzata per la rappresentazione di dati idrologici; license: open use, must provide the source - https://opendata.swiss/it/terms-of-use#terms_by).
• Land_Cover: raster layer derived from Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - European Environment Agency (Corine Land Cover 2018; license: full, open and free access as established by the Copernicus data and information policy Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013 - http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32013R1159).
• Municipalities_OSM: vector layer derived from OpenStreetMap (license: Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) - https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/).
• River_network: vector layer derived from:
  • Lombardy Geoportal (Geoportale Regione Lombardia – Reticolo Idrografico Regionale Unificato; license: IODL 2.0).
  • Piedmont Geoportal (Geoportale Regione Piemonte – ARPA Piemonte: Reticolo idrografico Direttiva Quadro Acque WFD 60/2000/CE - license: CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/it/legalcode)
  • opendata.swiss (Carta base generalizzata per la rappresentazione di dati idrologici; license: open use, must provide the source - https://opendata.swiss/it/terms-of-use#terms_by)
• Temperature_distribution: raster layer derived from the processing of Landsat-8 satellite imagery