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ESRI Data Maps 2004 : U.S. National Atlas Cities

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Identification Information
Citation
Originator
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Originator
Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
Publication Date
20040301
Title
ESRI Data Maps 2004 : U.S. National Atlas Cities
Edition
2004
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Series Information
Series Name
ESRI Data Maps
Issue Identification
2004
Publication Information
Publication Place
Redlands, California, USA
Publisher
ESRI
Other Citation Details
Location: ESRI data maps 2004 \usa
Online Linkage
https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-esri04uscities-dtl
Abstract
U.S. National Atlas Cities represents cities and towns in the United States, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Purpose
U.S. National Atlas Cities provides information about the locations, names, and populations of cities and towns for conducting geographic analysis on national and large regional scales.
Supplemental Information
Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:2,000,000.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date: 1972-2000, 1998; ground condition: 1990
Bounding Box
West
-174.198764
East
178.874600
North
71.290064
South
17.711709
Theme Keyword
Cities and towns
Human settlements
Population Statistics
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
ISO Topic Category
location
society
Theme Keyword
point
cities
towns
populated places
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Place Keyword
United States
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands of the United States
Place Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Temporal Keyword
1972-2000
1998
1990
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
Access granted to Licensee only.
Use Restrictions
The data are provided under the Harvard University Site License. These data must be used in compliance with the Site License. This means that the data are only available for Harvard Affiliates for use on Harvard owned computers. The data are provided by multiple, third party data vendors under license to ESRI for inclusion on ESRI Data Maps for use with ESRI software. Each data vendor has its own data licensing policies and may grant varying redistribution rights to end users. Please consult the redistribution rights below for this data set provided on ESRI Data Maps. As used herein, "Geodata" shall mean any digital data set consisting of geographic data coordinates and associated attributes. The redistribution rights for this data set: Public domain data from U.S. government is freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. The terms and conditions below apply to all the data sets provided on ESRI Data Maps. Proprietary Rights and Copyright: Licensee acknowledges that the Data and Related Materials contain proprietary and confidential property of ESRI and its licensor(s). The Data and Related Materials are owned by ESRI and its licensor(s) and are protected by United States copyright laws and applicable international copyright treaties and/or conventions. Limited Warranty and Disclaimer: ESRI warrants that the media upon which the Data and Related Materials are provided will be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and service for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of receipt. THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE LIMITED WARRANTY, AND THE LICENSEE EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE DATA CONTAINS SOME NONCONFORMITIES, DEFECTS, OR ERRORS. ESRI DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE DATA WILL MEET LICENSEE'S NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS; THAT THE USE OF THE DATA WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED; OR THAT ALL NONCONFORMITIES, DEFECTS, OR ERRORS CAN OR WILL BE CORRECTED. ESRI IS NOT INVITING RELIANCE ON THIS DATA, AND THE LICENSEE SHOULD ALWAYS VERIFY ACTUAL DATA. EXCEPT FOR THE LIMITED WARRANTY SET FORTH ABOVE, THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Exclusive Remedy and Limitation of Liability: The entire liability of ESRI or its licensor(s) and Licensee's exclusive remedy shall be to terminate the Agreement upon Licensee returning the Data and Related Materials to ESRI with a copy of Licensee's invoice/receipt and ESRI returning the license fees paid to Licensee. IN NO EVENT SHALL ESRI AND/OR ITS LICENSOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOST PROFITS, LOST SALES, OR BUSINESS EXPENDITURES, INVESTMENTS, OR COMMITMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH ANY BUSINESS; LOSS OF ANY GOODWILL; OR FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR USE OF THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS, HOWEVER CAUSED, ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ESRI OR ITS LICENSOR(S) HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY EXCLUSIVE REMEDY. Third Party Beneficiary: ESRI's licensor(s) has (have) authorized ESRI to (sub)distribute and (sub)license its (their) data as incorporated into the Data and Related Materials. As an intended third party beneficiary to this Agreement, the ESRI licensor(s) is (are) entitled to directly enforce, in its own name, the rights and obligations undertaken by the Licensee and to seek all legal and equitable remedies as are afforded to ESRI. In the event that the data vendor(s) has (have) granted the end user permission to redistribute the Geodata, please use proper proprietary or copyright attribution for the various data vendor(s), and provide the associated metadata file(s) with the Geodata. In compliance with FGDC metadata standards, ESRI has attempted to practice proper metadata methodologies by providing any data source information, descriptions, and file names to assist in this effort.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Matches software update releases
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
ESRI
Delivery Point
380 New York Street
City
Redlands
State
California
Postal Code
92373-8100
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
909-793-2853
Contact Facsimile Telephone
909-793-5953
Contact Electronic Mail Address
info@esri.com
Hours of Service
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800
Data Quality Information
Logical Consistency Report
No duplicate features are present. The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format in ArcSDE. This verifies and validates the geometry.
Completeness Report
After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
The geospatial part of this data set was originally extracted from the USGS 1:2,000,000-scale Digital Line Graphs (DLG) - Manmade Features. The horizontal positional accuracy is about 2 kilometers.
Lineage
Source
Originator
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publication Date
20001106
Title
Cities and Towns of the United States
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Publication Information
Publication Place
Reston, Virginia, USA
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Other Citation Details
The data set was downloaded from the web site in August 2002.
Online Linkage
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
Source Scale Denominator
2000000
Type of Source Media
online
Source Temporal Extent
Time Period Information
Multiple Dates/Times
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1972-2000
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1998
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1990
Source Currentness Reference
publication date: 1972-2000, 1998: ground condition: 1990
Contribution
Attribute and geospatial data
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
Entity point
Point and Vector Object Count
35301
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000009
Longitude Resolution
0.000009
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name
Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257222
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
ESRI04USCITIES_DTL
Entity Type Definition
The points represent cities and towns in the United States, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Entity Type Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
Attributes
OBJECTID
Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
Definition Source
ESRI
FEATURE
The population range of the city or town, and level of government of the city or town.
Population - Less than 10,000; 10,000 to 49,999; 50,000 to 99,999; 100,000 to 249,999; 250,000 to 499,999; 500,000 to 999,999; 1,000,000 to 9,999,999. Level of government: County Seat; State Capital; State Capital County Seat; National Capital.
The listing of population ranges and levels of government.
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
NAME
The name of the city or town. (Geographic Names Information SystemUnited States Geological Survey)
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
ST_ABBREV
The two-letter abbreviation for the state. (Federal Information Processing Standards 5-2National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Definition Source
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
FIPS
The combined state and county FIPS code (five-digit number). The combined code uniquely identifies the county in which the city or town is located. (Federal Information Processing StandardsNational Institute of Standards and Technology)
Definition Source
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
PLACE_FIPS
The FIPS code (five-digit number) for named populated places (city or town). (Federal Information Processing Standards PUB 55-DC3National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Definition Source
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
POP_98
The 1998 estimated population of the city or town. (A 1990 population value may be available for places where the 1998 estimated population value is unknown.)
0
The population is unknown.
(Numbers for the features.)
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
SHAPE
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
STATUS
The status of the city or town.
National Capital
City is the national capital.
State Capital
City is a state capital.
State Capital County Seat
City is a state capital county seat.
County Seat
City is a county seat.
Definition Source
ESRI
Distribution Information
Format Name
SHAPE
Distributor
Harvard University Library
Online Access
http://hgl.harvard.edu
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20060911
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Harvard Geospatial Library
Contact Position
Geospatial Resources Cataloger
Contact Address
Address
Office For Information Systems
Address
1280 Massachusetts Avenue
City
Cambridge
State or Province
MA
Postal Code
02138
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
617-495-2417
Contact Facsimile Telephone
617-496-0440
Contact Electronic Mail Address
hgl_ref@hulmail.harvard.edu
Hours of Service
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST-USA
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Extensions
Online Linkage
http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
Profile Name
ESRI Metadata Profile
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