U.S. National Atlas Airports represents airports in the United States, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands with airport passenger enplanements of greater than or equal to 250 passengers per year.
Purpose
U.S. National Atlas Airports provides information about the locations and enplanements of airports 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
ground condition
Time Period
Beginning
1994
End
1996
Bounding Box
West
-168.101983
East
-67.012124
North
71.285400
South
19.720300
ISO Topic Category
transportation
Theme Keyword
Airports
Transportation
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Place Keyword
United States
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
Place Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Temporal Keyword
1999
1998
1997
1994?1996
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
None.
Use Restrictions
For Non-commercial use only.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Matches software update releases
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
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 (Build 1381) Service Pack 6; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.1.649
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 horizontal positional accuracy is unknown.
Lineage
Source
Originator
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
Publication Date
1999
Title
nationalatlas.gov? ?Airports
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Series Information
Publication Information
Publication Place
Reston, Virginia, USA
Publisher
United States Geological Survey
Other Citation Details
The data set was downloaded from the web site in 2000.
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
SDE.SMUSAAIRPORT
Entity Type Definition
The points represent locations where aircraft take off and land 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
DESCRIPT
The name or identification for the airport (1998 North American Transportation Atlas Data (NORTAD)U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
SVC_LVL
SHAPE
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
TOT_ENP
The total enplanements during calendar year 1994 (the sum of large certified, commuter, air taxi, foreign, and in-transit enplanements).
= 250
All airports in this data set have airport passenger enplanements of greater than or equal to 250 passengers per year.
Definition Source
Air Carrier Activity Information System, Federal Aviation Administration.
Distribution Information
Format Name
SHP
Distributor
Harvard Geospatial Library Team
Online Access
http://hgl.harvard.edu
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20020801
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
90 Mt. Auburn Street
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
