DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3485121
title: The SAFE Gazetteer

description: <b>Description: </b>These files contain the gazetteer used to record distinct, repeated sampling sites across the SAFE Project, including locations in the experimental landscape, the converted landscape surrounding SAFE and forest reserves and protected areas. <br><br>The data files include a geojson file containing the sampling locations and their associated metadata and a CSV file containing recognized aliases for official gazetteer locations. The data in the csv alias file is deliberately not included in this metadata spreadsheet as the data is primarily used in this CSV format by data checking and other processes. The GIS geometries in the geojson file (using WGS84 coordinates) are taken from a wide range of original GIS files collected from researchers at SAFE: the source files are indicated in the geometry metadata and most will also be available in the SAFE Zenodo community. The files also include the R code used to collate the geometry data from the various source files and create the geojson and aliases files.<b>Project: </b>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <b>SAFE CORE DATA</b><b>XML metadata: </b>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here<b>Files: </b>This dataset consists of 4 files: SAFE_Gazetteer_metadata.xlsx, gazetteer.geojson, Gazetteer_alias.csv, Gazetteer_sf.R<b>SAFE_Gazetteer_metadata.xlsx</b>This file only contains metadata for the files below<b>gazetteer.geojson</b>Description: A geojson file containing officially recognised SAFE Project sampling locations, along with basic metadata.This file contains 1 data tables:<b>SAFE Gazetteer</b> (described in worksheet gazetteer.geojson)Description: This worksheet describes the feature data associated with the geometries in the Gazeetteer.geojson file.Number of fields: 15Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).Fields: <b>location</b>: The primary ID code used for this location (Field type: id)<b>type</b>: Broad categories describing the different sampling types and campaigns that have been included in the gazetteer (Field type: categorical)<b>plot_size</b>: Intended geometry area for area based sampling locations. (Field type: categorical)<b>display_order</b>: Integer value used to control plotting order in displaying gazetteer data (Field type: numeric)<b>parent</b>: ID of parent location, for locations nested within larger sampling areas (Field type: categorical)<b>region</b>: Broad sampling regions within the SAFE Project (Field type: categorical)<b>fractal_order</b>: Fractal nesting level for core SAFE sampling sites (Field type: numeric)<b>transect_order</b>: Position along sampling point transect within blocks (Field type: numeric)<b>centroid_x</b>: Longitudinal centroid of feature geometry, not defined for linear geometries (Field type: numeric)<b>centroid_y</b>: Latitudinal centroid of feature geometry, not defined for linear geometries (Field type: numeric)<b>source</b>: Name of of original GIS source file containing geometry data (Field type: categorical)<b>bbox_xmin</b>: Geographic bound of geometry (Field type: numeric)<b>bbox_ymin</b>: Geographic bound of geometry (Field type: numeric)<b>bbox_xmax</b>: Geographic bound of geometry (Field type: numeric)<b>bbox_ymax</b>: Geographic bound of geometry (Field type: numeric)<b>Gazetteer_alias.csv</b>Description: A CSV file containing pairs of official location names and accepted aliases, with an additional column showing where a location in an published dataset has been accepted as a gazeteer locationThis file contains 1 data tables:<b>SAFE Gazetteer location aliases</b> (described in worksheet Gazetteer_alias.csv)Description: This file contains pairs of known aliases for locations and the matching official location ID.Number of fields: 3Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).Fields: <b>zenodo_record_id</b>: A Zenodo Record ID number, used to retrospectively show where new sites in an existing dataset have been incorporated under a given official location name (Field type: id)<b>location</b>: An official SAFE gazetteer location name (Field type: id)<b>alias</b>: A commonly used alternative alias for the location (Field type: id)<b>Gazetteer_sf.R</b>Description: The R file used to generate the two gazetteer files from the source files. The source files are not included in this record as they are published under separate records.<b>Date range: </b>2010-10-01 to 2019-10-01<b>Latitudinal extent: </b>4.4121 to 4.9618<b>Longitudinal extent: </b>116.9471 to 117.9959