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106th Congressional District Boundaries
- 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
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics, (comp.)
- Publication Date
- 2001
- Title
- 106th Congressional District Boundaries
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Collection Title
- National Transportation Atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC
- Publisher
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-ntadcd106
- Abstract
- The 106th Congressional District Boundaries data set contains geographic information for the political entities of the Congressional districts of the United States and U.S. Territories.
- Purpose
- The data provide users with information about the locations of congressional districts, primarily for national planning applications.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 1999
- Bounding Box
- West
- -179.149436
- East
- 179.759346
- North
- 71.331916
- South
- -14.602623
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- society
- Theme Keyword
- Congress
- Legislators
- Administrative and political divisions
- Boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Territories and possessions
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- None. Acknowledgment of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics National Transportation Atlas would be appreciated in products derived from these data.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- As needed
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- BTS Product Distribution Center
- Delivery Point
- 400 Seventh Street, SW
- City
- Washington
- State
- DC
- Postal Code
- 20590
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 202) 366-DATA
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- (202) 366-3640
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- answers@bts.gov
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 (Build 1381) Service Pack 6; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.1.649
- Collection
- Originator
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Publication Date
- 2001
- Title
- National Transportation Atlas
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- Attributes for the 106thCongressional District data set were created in a consistent manner using similar tolerances.
- Logical Consistency Report
- All node-link and polygon topological relationships were created and verified using ARC/INFO a Geographic Information System. The unique identifiers were verified using ARC/INFO. (The data was then converted to a shapefile format.)
- Completeness Report
- This data set is composed of the 435 Districts having voting representation plus seven districts without voting rights including the District of Columbia and US territories.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- Attributes for the 106th Congressional District data set were created in a consistent manner using similar tolerances.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- Publication Date
- 1998
- Title
- TIGER Extract - Thinned Boundary Files
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- none
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC
- Publisher
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1998
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Spatial information for the 106th Congressional District boundaries.
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 732
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000464
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000464
- 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
- 298.257224
- Vertical Coordinate System Definition
- Altitude System Definition
- Altitude Resolution
- 1.000000
- Altitude Encoding Method
- Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- 106th Congressional District Boundaries
- Entity Type Definition
- ESRI Shapefile
- Entity Type Definition Source
- ESRI
- Attributes
- VERSION
- In this release the value is 01 (01 to 99)
- Definition Source
- Assigned
- REVISION
- In this release the value will be blank (01 to 99)
- Definition Source
- Assigned
- MODDATE
- Record Modification Date. In this release the value will be blank (Domain is too large to enumerate) (The MODDATE values will be date values indicating the last time a record was edited or modified)
- Definition Source
- Assigned
- POLYID
- Unique identifier for each polygon
- Definition Source
- Assigned
- FEATUREID
- Unique identifier for the geographic entity - the Congressional District Code: composed of the two digit State FIPS Code plus the two digit Congressional District Code
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census
- LONGITUDE
- Centroid longitude value for the polygon
- LATITUDE
- Centroid latitude value for the polygon
- STFIPS
- State FIPS Code. Some fields are blank (Federal Information Processing Standard)
- Definition Source
- FIPS Pub 6-4
- POSTAL_COD
- State Postal Code
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census
- ST_NAME
- State Name
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census
- REP_NAME
- Representative's name and party afilliation
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census
- PARTY_AFF
- Party Affiliation
- D
- Democrat
- I
- Independent
- R
- Republican
- " "
- Blank
- Definition Source
- Assigned. Some fields are blank
- SHAPE
- The SHAPE attribute defines the vector data as either a point, polyline, or polygon. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI and BTS
- SHAPE.AREA
- SHAPE.LEN
- SHAPE.FID
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SHAPE
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Online Access
- hgl.harvard.edu
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20020705
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Person
- Geospatial Resources Cataloger
- Contact Address
- Address
- Office of 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
- 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
- Metadata Extensions
- Online Linkage
- http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name
- ESRI Metadata Profile
