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Census State Boundary (500k Carto Boundary File), WI 2018
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Census State Boundary (500k Carto Boundary File), WI 2018
- Originator
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Publication Date
- 2020-05-11
- Edition
- 2018
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide
- Abstract
- This data represents State Boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau for Wisconsin in 2018. [The 2018 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of states for the purpose of data presentation.]
- Purpose
- This data is intended for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [These files were specifically created to support small-scale thematic mapping. To improve the appearance of shapes at small scales, areas are represented with fewer vertices than detailed TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Cartographic boundary files take up less disk space than their ungeneralized counterparts. Cartographic boundary files take less time to render on screen than TIGER/Line Shapefiles. You can join this file with table data downloaded from American FactFinder by using the AFFGEOID field in the cartographic boundary file. If detailed boundaries are required, please use the TIGER/Line Shapefiles instead of the generalized cartographic boundary files.]
- Supplemental Information
- This is an archived copy of the data held at UW-Madison.
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2020-05-11T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.888114
- East
- -86.805415
- North
- 47.080621
- South
- 42.491983
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Theme Keyword
-
Census districts
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- [The intended display scale for this file is 1:500,000. This file should not be displayed at scales larger than 1:500,000. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information is for visual display at appropriate small scales only. Cartographic boundary files should not be used for geographic analysis including area or perimeter calculation. Files should not be used for geocoding addresses. Files should not be used for determining precise geographic area relationships. ]
- Legal Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Although this data is being distributed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- unknown
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- U.S. Census Bureau
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 4269
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 9.7
Data Quality Information
- Absolute External Positional Accuracy
- Evaluation Method
- [Data are not accurate. Data are generalized representations of geographic boundaries at 1:500,000.]
- Result
- Unified Code of Units of Measure m Missing
- Completeness Commission
- Evaluation Method
- [The cartographic boundary files are generalized representations of extracts taken from the MAF/TIGER Database. Generalized boundary files are clipped to a simplified version of the U.S. outline. As a result, some off-shore areas may be excluded from the generalized files. Some small geographic areas, holes, or discontiguous parts of areas may not be included in generalized files if they are not visible at the target scale.]
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- [Spatial data were extracted from the MAF/TIGER database and processed through a U.S. Census Bureau batch generalization system.]
- Process Date
- 2019-05-01T00:00:00
- Process Step
- Description
- Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.
- Process Date
- 2020-04-27T00:00:00
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Distributor
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_CensusCBF_StateBoundary_2018.zip
- Protocol
- WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
- Name
- GeoData@Wisconsin
- Function
- download
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- composite
- Vector Object Count
- 1
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 3D2BFEC7-54CE-49F0-9B60-DF1FF1E5BBD8
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Arthur H. Robinson Map Library
- Position Name
- Metadata technician
- Delivery Point
- 550 N. Park Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53706
- Country
- US
- askmap@library.wisc.edu
- Phone
- (608) 262-1471
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2020-05-12
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8
