Geospatial data on quality indicators and quality scores for parks in the city of Leipzig, Germany

This dataset provides indicators for 249 public green spaces (at least 0.25 ha) in the city of Leipzig, Germany, and total scores for natural elements, built elements (infrastructure) and context, as well as an total quality score on the individual park level representing the potential supply of recreational ecosystem services. The quality score is also depicted in regular hexagons of 0.25 square kilometers. All data is supplement to the original linked publication.

List of data and content

Parks_Indicators: vector files (*.shp, *.geojson), field description (*.csv)

Parks_Scores: vector files (*.shp, *.geojson), field description (*.csv)

Parks_Scores_RGB: raster file (*.tif), readme file (*.txt)

QualityScore_Hexagons: vector files (*.shp, *.geojson), readme file (*.txt)

Spatial reference
All data is projected in ETRS 1989 UTM Zone 33N (EPSG:25833)

Web-GIS
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Data sources and processing
For details on underlying data sources (e.g. availabilty, spatial resolution, time reference) and on data processing please refer to the linked publication, incl. Appendix 1

Acknowledgments
We thank Terra Concordia and the City of Leipzig for providing data. We greatly acknowledge OpenStreetMap and contributers for providing important parts of the data. This work was supported by the research project “Environmental‐Health Interactions in Cities (GreenEquityHEALTH) ‐ Challenges for Human Well‐Being under Global Changes” (project duration 2017–2022), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; no.01LN1705A).

Related publication
Kraemer, R., & Kabisch, N. (2021). Parks in context: Advancing citywide spatial quality assessments of urban green spaces using fine-scaled indicators. Ecology and Society, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12485-260245