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LandScan 2014 Global Population Database Released by East View

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota--September 8, 2015--East View is pleased to announce our worldwide release of the LandScan 2014 Global Population Database.

LandScan is developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the United States Department of Defense.  Annually updated since the year 2000, this represents the 16th version of LandScan.

This award-winning database provides the ambient population distribution at a high resolution of one square kilometer covering all inhabited land mass on Earth.

For this new release, very special attention was given to Ukraine and the Middle East where ongoing conflict has presented significant challenges for calculating the population distribution values.

East View is the exclusive worldwide distributor of LandScan, fulfilling the population data needs of individual researchers, academic institutions, government agencies, humanitarian organizations and businesses around the world.

Notable improvements in this new release include:

ABOUT EAST VIEW COMPANIES

East View was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. East View is comprised of East View Information Services ( www.eastview.com), East View Geospatial ( www.geospatial.com) and East View Map Link ( www.maplink.com). East View maintains thousands of supplier/publisher relationships throughout the world for maps and geospatial data and Russian, Arabic and Chinese-produced social and hard science content. East View manages a data center, library and warehouse in Minneapolis where it hosts and stores dozens of foreign language databases, hundreds of thousands of maps and atlases and millions of geospatial, Russian, Chinese and Arabic metadata records. Uncommon Information. Extraordinary Places.