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United States Airports, 2008
- 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
- National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
- Originator
- ESRI
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Title
- United States Airports, 2008
- Edition
- 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ESRI Data Maps
- Issue Identification
- 2008 World, Europe, United States, Canada, and Mexico
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/esri_2008_usa_airports.zip
- Abstract
- United States Airports is a point theme representing airports in the United States, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. Possessions with airport passenger enplanements of greater than or equal to 100 passengers per year. Attribute information includes the name, field, state, enplanements and type of airport. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data Maps collection.
- Purpose
- U.S. National Atlas Airports provides information about the locations, names, location identifiers, 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
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2008
- Bounding Box
- West
- -177.370000
- East
- 166.641671
- North
- 71.285445
- South
- -14.334444
- Theme Keyword
- point
- airports
- airport location identifiers (airport codes)
- ACAIS database
- total enplanements
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- transportation
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- 2003
- 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
- Annually
- 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 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format using either ESRI SDC Data Development Kit Professional 2 (DDKP2) or tools in ArcGIS. The SDC data set is then loaded into ArcSDE to verify and validate the geometry.
- 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 U.S. Geological Survey
- Publication Date
- 200110
- Title
- Airports of the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Reston, Virginia, USA
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Other Citation Details
- The data set was downloaded from the web site in August 2002.
- Online Linkage
- http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
- Source Scale Denominator
- 2000000
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Multiple Dates/Times
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 200110
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2000
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date: 200110; ground condition: 2000
- Contribution
- Attribute and geospatial data
- Source
- Originator
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Publication Date
- 20001207
- Title
- PRIMARY AIRPORT ENPLANEMENT ACTIVITY SUMMARY FOR CY1999
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- online
- Publisher
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Online Linkage
- http://www2.faa.gov/arp/pdf/vpa.pdf
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1999
- Source Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Contribution
- Attribute data
- Source
- Originator
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Publication Date
- 1998
- Title
- North American Transportation Atlas Data
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- tabular digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC, USA
- Publisher
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
- Other Citation Details
- Downloaded the United States Public Use Airports data set.
- Online Linkage
- http://www.bts.gov/publications/north_american_transportation_atlas_data/
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1998
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Publication Date
- 2003
- Title
- CY 2003 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- tabular digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC, USA
- Publisher
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Other Citation Details
- Downloaded the All Primary, Non-primary, Commercial Service Airports by State data set in Excel format.
- Online Linkage
- http://www.faa.gov/arp/planning/stats/cy03data
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2003
- Source Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- 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
- 880
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000009
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000009
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257224
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- airports
- Entity Type Definition
- The points represent locations where aircraft take off and land in the United States and its possessions.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
- Attributes
- ObjectID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- LOCID
- The unique (3-4 character) identifier assigned to the airport. (Air Carrier Activity Information System (ACAIS)U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration)
- Definition Source
- Federal Aviation Administration
- NAME
- The name or identification for the airport. (Air Carrier Activity Information System (ACAIS)U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration)
- Definition Source
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FIELD
- The name of the airfield associated with the airport. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- STATE
- The name of the state in which the airport is located. (Federal Information Processing Standards 5-2National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Definition Source
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- STATE_FIPS
- The FIPS code (two-digit number) for the state in which the airport is located. (Federal Information Processing Standards 5-2National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Definition Source
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- ACAIS
- Indicates if the airport is listed in the Air Carrier Activity Information System (ACAIS) database. ACAIS is a database that contains revenue passenger enplanement and all-cargo data. The database supports the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) entitlement activities.
- Y
- The airport is an ACAIS Airport.
- Definition Source
- Air Carrier Activity Information System, Federal Aviation Administration
- TOT_ENP
- The total enplanements during calendar year 2003 (the sum of large certified, commuter, air taxi, foreign, and in-transit enplanements).
- = 100
- All airports in this data set have airport passenger enplanements of greater than or equal to 100 passengers per year.
- Definition Source
- Air Carrier Activity Information System, Federal Aviation Administration
- TYPE
- The type of the airport.
- International
- International airport.
- Military
- Military airport.
- Municipal
- Municipal airport.
- Regional
- Regional airport.
- Seaplane Base
- Seaplane Base.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SDC
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090714
- 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
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
