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International Airports, 1996
- 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
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
- Publication Date
- 1996
- Title
- International Airports, 1996
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ArcAtlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, Calif.
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/esri_1996_world_airp.zip
- Abstract
- International Airports is a point theme representing over 1,000 airports worldwide. Attribute information includes the airport name and the name of the closest city.
- Purpose
- For educational, non-commercial purposes. This dataset is appropriate for use in a GIS.
- Supplemental Information
- Air transport is playing an increasing role in global and intercontinental freight, mail, and passenger traffic. It is characterized by high speeds and the ability to overcome natural obstacles. It is one of the most important kinds of passenger transport today, especially for distances greater than 1,000 kilometers. Air transportation leads in continental and intercontinental international passenger traffic. In the 1990s the passenger volume of air transport exceeded 200 billion passenger kilometers. Airports are the key element in the air transport system and transport infrastructure. There are several tens of thousands of airports in the world. Among them, international airports are of great importance.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 1996
- Bounding Box
- West
- -180
- East
- 180
- North
- 85
- South
- -85
- Theme Keyword
- transportation
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme Keyword
- Airports
- Airfields
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- Earth
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 1996
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For current Columbia affiliates only.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- 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
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
- Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- ABC
- Publication Date
- 1992
- Title
- World Airways Guide
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Dunstable, Bedfordshire
- Publisher
- Reed Travel Group
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Publication Date
- 1984
- Title
- Aeroporty i vozdushnye trassy
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Moscow
- Publisher
- Transport
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Publication Date
- 1990
- Title
- Izyskaniye i proektirovaniye aeroportov
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Moscow
- Publisher
- Transport
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Originator
- National Geographic Society
- Publication Date
- 19990
- Title
- National Geographic Atlas of the World
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC.
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Publication Date
- 1992
- Title
- The Times Atlas of the World
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- The Times
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Title
- Timetables of 1994: Aeroflot, Aerolineas Argentinas, Air France, Air India, Alitalia, ANA, Austrian AUA, Aviaco, Binter, British Airways, Delta Airlines, Deutsche BA, Finnair, Iberia, JAL, KLM, Ladeco, LOT, Lufthansa, Malev, SAS, Swissair, Turkish Airlines, Viasa, Viva Air.
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- 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
- 1148
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_Clarke_1866
- Ellipsoid Name
- Clarke 1866
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378206.400000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 294.978698
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- airport
- Entity Type Definition
- Airports
- 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
- AREA
- Area
- PERIMETER
- Perimeter
- SAAPDD_
- South America
- SAAPDD_ID
- South America ID
- NAME
- The name of the city nearest to an airport
- DIAK_CDE
- Codes for any diacritical marks in the name
- NAME1
- A local or previous name for a city
- FIPS_CNTRY
- Contains a two-letter country code for the country in which an airport is located
- AIRPORT
- The name of the airport
- CODE
- The airport's international code
- DISTANCE
- The distance from the airport to the nearest city, in kilometers
- POLYGONID
- ID number
- SCALE
- Scale
- ANGLE
- Angle
- NAAPDD_
- North America
- NAAPDD_ID
- North America ID
- EUAPDD_
- Europe
- EUAPDD_ID
- Europe ID
- AUAPDD_
- Australia
- AUAPDD_ID
- Australia ID
- ASAPDD_
- Asia
- ASAPDD_ID
- Asia ID
- AFAPDD_
- Africa
- AFAPDD_ID
- Africa ID
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- geopackage
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090630
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212) 854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
