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U.S. ZIP Code Points
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Geographic Data Technology, Inc. (GDT)
- Originator
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Originator
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
- Publication Date
- 20001101
- Title
- U.S. ZIP Code Points
- Edition
- 2000
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ESRI Data Maps
- Issue Identification
- 2000
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
- Other Citation Details
- Location: ESRI Data Maps 2000 (CD 2) \usa
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-esriuszip-usa
- Abstract
- U.S. ZIP Code Points represents five-digit ZIP Code areas as points by placing the location using delivery based centroids and those ZIP Codes that have few or no street delivery locations or are assigned to a single organization such as a business which has street delivery.
- Purpose
- U.S. ZIP Code Points provides the post office name, types, and area for each ZIP Code location in the United States.
- Supplemental Information
- Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:100,000.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 199911
- Bounding Box
- West
- -177.967284
- East
- -66.988293
- North
- 70.621625
- South
- 19.081071
- ISO Topic Category
- location
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword
- point
- zip codes
- locations
- five-digit zip codes
- post offices
- enclosing zip codes
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- 1999
- 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 Afiliates 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 CD-ROMs for use with ESRI(r) 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 CD-ROMs. 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: Redistribution rights are granted by the data vendor for hard-copy renditions or static, electronic map images (e.g. .gif, .jpeg, etc.) that are plotted, printed, or publicly displayed with proper metadata and source/copyright attribution to the respective data vendor(s). Geodata is redistributable with a Value-Added Software Application developed by ESRI Business Partners on a royalty-free basis with proper metadata and source/copyright attribution to the respective data vendor(s). The terms and conditions below apply to all the data sets provided on the ESRI Data Maps CD-ROMs. 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
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (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
- Credit
- United States Postal Service
- Native Data Set Environment
- Windows NT Version 5.0 (Build 2195) ; ESRI ArcInfo 8.1.0.515
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- No duplicate features are present. The shapefile is exported using Avenue request ExportClean. This request verifies and enforces the correctness of shapes.
- 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 extracted from many sources. Most locations are based on 1990 Census Version TIGER/Line(tm) files (CD-ROM edition), processed to improve their accuracy, then placed as points based on the actual distribution of residential deliveries within each ZIP code polygon. Residential Post Office ZIP Codes (with RPO_flag R) are placed at the actual location of the post office. Other ZIP Code points include Post Office box ZIP Codes and Unique ZIP Codes (single site, building or organization). Due to the different sources and methods used, the horizontal accuracy is unknown.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- Geographic Data Technology, Inc.
- Publication Date
- 200001
- Title
- Dynamap/2000 v10.0
- Edition
- Version 10.0
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- Dynamap/2000(r)
- Issue Identification
- v10.0
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
- Publisher
- Geographic Data Technology, Inc
- Source Scale Denominator
- 100000
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 199911
- Source Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- 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
- 41717
- 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 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
- zip_usa
- Entity Type Definition
- The points represent areas where mail is delivered (from a city block or two to a whole rural town), Residential Post Office locations, Post Office box ZIP Codes, and unique ZIP Codes (single site, building or organization) within United States.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- Geographic Data Technology, Inc.
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- ZIP
- The five-digit number used by the postal service to identify a location where mail is delivered. (USPS National 5-Digit ZIP and Post Office DirectoryUnited States Postal Service)
- Definition Source
- United States Postal Service
- ENC_ZIP
- The five-digit ZIP Code of the area that encloses a ZIP Code point (if present) which has no geographic extent defined in terms of street segments, or which correspond to geography not defined in any Postal Service data files. (USPS National 5-Digit ZIP and Post Office DirectoryUnited States Postal Service)
- Definition Source
- Geographic Data Technology, Inc.
- STATE
- The two-letter abbreviation for the state in which the ZIP Code point is located. (USPS City/State FileUnited States Postal Service)
- Definition Source
- United States Postal Service
- AREA
- The area of the ZIP Code area the point is based on in square miles using Albers Equal Area Projection. (Calculated areas for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- PO_NAME
- The post office name. (USPS National 5-Digit ZIP and Post Office DirectoryUnited States Postal Service)
- Definition Source
- United States Postal Service
- NAMETYPE
- The type of post office facility. (USPS City/State FileUnited States Postal Service)
- Definition Source
- United States Postal Service
- CTY1FIPS
- The FIPS code for the first county in which the ZIP Code is located. (Federal Information Processing StandardsNational Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Definition Source
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- CTY2FIPS
- The FIPS code for the second county in which the ZIP Code is located. (Federal Information Processing StandardsNational Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Definition Source
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- CTY3FIPS
- The FIPS code for the third county in which the ZIP Code is located. (Federal Information Processing StandardsNational Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Definition Source
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- RPO_FLAG
- The Residential Post Office (post office with mostly residential post office box customers) indicator.
- R
- This ZIP Code is a Residential Post Office.
- (blank)
- This ZIP Code is not a Residential Post Office.
- Definition Source
- United States Postal Service
- ZIP_TYPE
- The type of ZIP Code. (USPS City/State FileUnited States Postal Service)
- Definition Source
- United States Postal Service
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SHP
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Online Access
- hgl.harvard.edu
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20001017
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Address
- Address
- OIS
- Address
- 1280 Mass Ave
- City
- Cambridge
- State or Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- 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
