Table 1 The attributes and descriptions associated with the first two items in the data record.

From: A crowdsourced global data set for validating built-up surface layers

Attribute

Description

SubmissionID

Unique ID of the submission

PointID

Unique ID of the grid from 1 to 50000

UserID

Unique ID of the user

Timestamp

Date and time at which the validation was made

X_Centroid

The longitude of the centroid of the 8 × 8 grid

Y_Centroid

The latitude of the centroid of the 8 × 8 grid

BingImageDate

Date of the Microsoft Bing image

GoogleImageDate

Date of the Google Maps image

*ControlPoint

Yes

No

Legend

Change

LegendItemID

4080 = Yes

4081 = No

4082 = Not sure

LegendItemName

Yes

No

Not sure

Null (if skipped)

*QualityofChange

100 = agreement with majority (if non-control point) or the control/includes not sure as majority (and yes/no answers)

50 = majority was split between change and no-change (if non-control point)

0 = no agreement with the majority (if non-control point) or the control

Null = not applicable if a non-built-up area or skipped

BuiltupCells

The number of cells that are built-up (from 0 to 64) or null if skipped

NonBuiltupCells

The number of cells that are not built-up (from 0 to 64) or null if skipped

DoNotKnowCells

The number of cells that are marked as ‘I don’t know’ (from 0 to 64) or null if skipped

SkipReason

0 = not skipped

1 = skipped because no Google imagery, low resolution or clouds

2 = skipped because too difficult

*QualityofAnswer

100 = agreement with majority (if non-control point) or the control over built-up/non-built-up

50 = majority was split between built-up/non-built up

0 = no agreement with majority (if non-control point) or the control over built-up/non-built-up

Null = skipped

Comment

Text-based comment about the location if present or null (as this was optional)

  1. Attributes marked with an asterisk apply only to the first item (Geo-WikiBuilt-upCentroidsAll.csv).