Urban units — Hautes-Pyrénées

The concept of urban unity is based on the continuity of the building and the number of inhabitants. It is called an urban unit a commune or a set of municipalities with a continuous built-up area (no cut of more than 200 meters between two buildings) that has at least 2,000 inhabitants. The municipalities which do not form part of the constitution of an urban unit are considered rural: municipalities without a continuous built-up area of 2000 inhabitants, and those of which less than half of the municipal population is in a continuous built-up area. __Origin__ Data source: INSEE D' after the file of urban units available for download as the website of l'INSEE. These thresholds, 200 meters for the continuity of the building and 2,000 inhabitants for the population of built-up areas, are the result of recommendations adopted at international level. In France, the calculation of the space between two constructions is carried out by l' analysis of databases on the building of the n°#x27; Institut Géographique National (IGN). It takes into account cuts in the urban fabric such as rivers d' water in #x27; absence of bridges, gravel, elevations. Since the 2010 split, some public spaces (cemeteries, stadiums, airfields, parking lots...), industrial or commercial land (factories, zones d' activities, shopping centres,...) have been treated as buildings with the 200-metre rule to connect inhabited construction areas, unlike previous divisions where these spaces were only cancelled in the calculation of distances between buildings. DATA QUALITY: Urban units are made up of; after the municipal boundaries of the BD-Topo ® — edition 2010, according to the 2007 Census of Population. Correspondence of the classification code of urban units: This code corresponds to the size of the urban unit: 0 — Rural 1 — Urban units of 2,000 to 4,999 inhabitants 2 — Urban units of 5,000 to 9,999 inhabitants 3 — Urban units of 10,000 to 19,999 inhabitants 4 — Urban units of 20,000 to 49,999 inhabitants 5 — Urban units of 50,000 to 99 999 inhabitants 6 — Urban units of 100,000 to 199 999 inhabitants 7 — Urban units from 200 000 to 1 999 999 inhabitants This population class, not provided in the latest version, was calculated by sum of the 2007 population data of the municipalities concerned. The previous version of urban units according to the 1999 Census of Population is retained (N_URBAINE_UNITE_ZSUP_065_1999.TAB). __Partner organisations__ DDT Hautes-Pyrénées __Links annexes__ * [XML metadata view](http://ogc.geo-ide.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/csw/all-dataset?REQUEST=GetRecordById&SERVICE=CSW&VERSION=2.0.2&RESULTTYPE=results&elementSetName=full&TYPENAMES=gmd:MD_Metadata&OUTPUTSCHEMA=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&ID=fr-120066022-jdd-2324be95-e5b3-4ba0-95c6-fb1066cb7378) * [default.asp](http://www.insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=zonages/unites_urbaines.htm) * [basic URL of wms/wfs services on the Internet](http://ogc.geo-ide.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/wxs?map=/opt/data/carto/geoide-catalogue/1.4/org_38072/d22eca51-fba9-4b27-98db-2dbdbf8d079e.internet.map) [See this page on geo.data.gouv.fr](https://geo.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/67903857e68898ad84dee40ae8cb70fd3e69ba80)