World Named Latitudes and Longitudes contains geographically significant lines of reference such as the equator, tropics, Arctic and Antarctic circles, prime meridian, and international date line. It also contains their names and values as attributes.
Purpose
Dataset was developed for use by GIS software in global or continental scale applications.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date
Time Instant
1999
Bounding Box
West
-180.000000
East
180.000000
North
90.000000
South
-90.000000
ISO Topic Category
location
Theme Keyword
latitude
longitude
graticule
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
none
Place Keyword
Temporal Keyword
Access Restrictions
Data is licensed to Harvard University affiliates only. Copyright ESRI, Inc.
Use Restrictions
All uses of the dataset must be attributed to ESRI.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
None planned
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
ESRI, Inc
City
Redlands
State
CA
Country
USA
Credit
Environmental Research Systems Institute, Redlands, CA
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 (Build 1381) Service Pack 5; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.0.642
Collection
Originator
ESRI, Inc
Publication Date
1999
Title
ESRI Data and Maps
Edition
1
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Data Quality Information
Attribute Accuracy Report
Attribute accuracy report not available
Logical Consistency Report
Logical consistency test descriptions not available
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
Positional accuracy report not available
Lineage
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
String
Point and Vector Object Count
54
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000001
Longitude Resolution
0.000001
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1927
Ellipsoid Name
Clarke 1866
Semi-major Axis
6378206.400000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
294.978698
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
geogrid
Attributes
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
NAME
The name of the latitude or longitude line.
Definition Source
ESRI
VALUE
The degree value and direction of the grid line in decimal degrees
Definition Source
ESRI
FID
Internal Feature ID
Definition Source
ESRI
Distribution Information
Format Name
SHP
Distributor
Harvard University Libraries
Online Access
geodesy.harvard.edu
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20010618
Metadata Review Date
none
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Geodesy Project
Contact Address
Address
Harvard University Libraries
City
Cambridge
State or Province
MA
Postal Code
02138
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
495-3724
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
