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United States Major Highways, 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
- Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
- Originator
- ESRI
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Title
- United States Major Highways, 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_mjr_hwys.zip
- Abstract
- United States Major Highways is a polyline theme representing the major highways of the United States. These include interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, and major roads. This dataset is a subset of the Streets dataset. It contains all Class 1 and 2 roads segments plus any other road segments necessary to provide network connectivity for the Class_Rte field. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data Maps collection.
- Purpose
- United States Major Highways provides a subset of highways and major roads from the Streets dataset for national, state, and regional display.
- Supplemental Information
- Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:100,000.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2008
- Bounding Box
- West
- -159.779918
- East
- -66.981845
- North
- 65.826906
- South
- 19.058082
- Theme Keyword
- line
- interstates
- highways
- freeways or expressways
- major roads
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- location
- transportation
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2000
- 2002
- 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 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
- 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 geospatial part of this data set was extracted from the Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. The positional accuracy varies with the source materials used, but generally the information is no better than the established national map Accuracy standards for 1:100,000-scale maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). To improve the accuracy, Tele Atlas ran a process against the entire nationwide database. The level of positional accuracy in the StreetMap files is not suitable for high-precision measurement applications such as engineering problems, property transfers, or other uses that might require highly accurate measurements of the earth's surface.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Title
- Tele Atlas TIGER/Line 2000 Streets, 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
- Publisher
- Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
- Other Citation Details
- TIGER/Line 2000 Data Processed by a proprietary line straightening process by Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
- Source Scale Denominator
- 100000
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2000
- 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
- String
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 171646
- 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_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
- esri_93_usa_mjr_hwys
- Entity Type Definition
- The lines represent the major highways of the United States. These include interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, and major roads.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- ESRI
- 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
- PREFIX
- The prefix direction. (Prefix directions of the address attributes for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- PRETYPE
- The prefix highway type. (Prefix highway types of the address attributes for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- NAME
- The name or route number of the highway. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
- TYPE
- The suffix highway type. (Suffix highway types of the address attributes for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SUFFIX
- The suffix direction. (Suffix directions of the address attributes for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- CLASS
- The highway class.
- 1
- Limited Access.
- 2
- Highway.
- 3
- Major Road.
- 4
- Local Road.
- 5
- Minor Road.
- 6
- Other Road.
- 7
- Ramp.
- 8
- Ferry.
- 9
- Pedestrian Way.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- CLASS_RTE
- The highway class (used for routing and connectivity).
- 1
- Limited Access.
- 2
- Highway.
- 3
- Major Road.
- 4
- Local Road.
- 5
- Minor Road.
- 6
- Other Road.
- 7
- Ramp.
- 8
- Ferry.
- 9
- Pedestrian Way.
- 0
- A special class of highway to do very fast high level cross-country routing that also selects the through-route in complicated urban areas.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- HWY_TYPE
- The highway type.
- I
- Interstate.
- U
- U.S. highway.
- S
- State highway.
- C
- County highway.
- H
- Highway (type unknown).
- blank
- None of the above.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- HWY_SYMBOL
- The highway symbol (usually route number). (Numbers for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SDC
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090715
- 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
