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World Gazetteer, 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
- ESRI
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Title
- World Gazetteer, 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_world_gaz.zip
- Abstract
- World Gazetteer is a point theme representing the locations and proper names for map features around the world. The gazetteer includes attribute and annotation name information from various layers of the Digital Chart of the World. Attribute information includes the name, country category and description of the features. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data and Maps Collection.
- Purpose
- World Gazetteer provides a base map layer that may be used to find locations by their proper name anywhere around the world. The categories include airports, coastal features, drainage features, land features, ocean features, islands, political features, and populated places.
- Supplemental Information
- Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:1,000,000.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2008
- Bounding Box
- West
- -179.989000
- East
- 179.996987
- North
- 85
- South
- -85
- Theme Keyword
- point
- gazetteer
- airports
- coastal features
- drainage features
- islands
- land features
- ocean features
- political features
- populated places
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- transportation
- oceans
- location
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- World
- Earth
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 1992
- 1993/1994
- 2000
- 1996
- 2000
- 2002
- 2002
- 2000
- 2007
- 2007
- 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 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.4.1420
- 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. The data set is created directly from a topologically correct ArcInfo coverage.
- 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 accuracy, at a 90 percent confidence level for circular error, ranges from 1,600 feet to 7,300 feet. These figures are the root sum square of Operational Navigation Chart (ONC)/Jet Navigation Chart (JNC) sheet positional errors plus the additional error introduced by the Digital Chart of the World production process. Since the features are derived from annotation, they do not correspond with the true location because the latitude and longitude coordinate values were derived from the annotation location rather than the map feature itself. Locations taken from annotation are based on the lower left corner of the first letter. Also, the names associated with fuzzy polygons may occur anywhere in the general area of the feature. For example, the name 'Rocky Mountains' is a point located somewhere in the general area covered by the term Rocky Mountains. Fuzzy polygon names, which appeared on more than one ONC sheet, will occur more than once.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- ESRI
- Originator
- Defense Mapping Agency, presently known as National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- Publication Date
- 1992
- Title
- Digital Chart of the World
- Edition
- 1
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Source Scale Denominator
- 1000000
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1992
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Attribute and geospatial data
- Source
- Originator
- United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
- Publication Date
- Winter 1993/1994
- Title
- Geographic and Global Issues Quarterly
- Edition
- Volume 3, Number 4
- Series Information
- Series Name
- Geographic and Global Issues Quarterly
- Issue Identification
- Volume 3, Number 4
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC, USA
- Publisher
- United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- Winter 1993/1994
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Attribute data
- Source
- Originator
- United States Central Intelligence Agency
- Publication Date
- 20000101, 20020101, 200703, 200711
- Title
- The World Factbook 2000; 2002; 2007
- Edition
- 2000, 2002, 2007
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- document
- Series Information
- Series Name
- The World Factbook
- Issue Identification
- 2000; 2002; 2007
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC, USA
- Publisher
- United States Central Intelligence Agency
- Other Citation Details
- The Factbook has been an annual publication, but selected data and maps are updated periodically online.
- Online Linkage
- http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- Online Linkage
- https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Multiple Dates/Times
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 20000101
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 20020101
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 200703
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 200711
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- ESRI
- Publication Date
- 1996
- Title
- ArcWorld Supplement
- Edition
- 1
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Source Scale Denominator
- 3000000
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1996
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- Government of Nunavut
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- online
- Publisher
- Government of Nunavut
- Online Linkage
- http://www.gov.nu.ca
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2000
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- International Organization for Standardization
- Publication Date
- 20021115
- Title
- Updates on ISO 3166
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- document
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- online
- Publisher
- International Organization for Standardization
- Other Citation Details
- ISO 3166-1 NEWSLETTER No. V-6 [20021115]
- Online Linkage
- http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/03updates-on-iso-3166/nlv6e-tl.html
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 20021115
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- Global Mapping International
- Title
- Missions Database
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Publisher
- Global Mapping International
- Online Linkage
- http://www.gmi.org
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2000
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- 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
- 150740
- 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
- gaz
- Entity Type Definition
- The points represent the locations and proper names for map features around the world.
- 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
- NAME
- The proper name of the feature. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- Digital Chart of the World, ArcWorld Supplement, Geographic and Global Issues, CIA Factbook, Government of Nunavut
- CATEGORY
- The category to which the feature pertains.
- Airport, Coastal feature, Drainage feature, Island, Land feature, Ocean feature, Political, Populated place
- The list of categories.
- Definition Source
- Digital Chart of the World
- DESCRIPT
- The description of the feature.
- Administered by another country, Administrative Region, Administrative Subdivision, Area, Atoll, Autonomous Community, Autonomous Municipality, Autonomous Region, Bay, Canal, Canton, Cape, Capital City, Capital Municipality, Capital Territory, Channel, City, Commonwealth, Constitutional Province, Continent, Controlled and administered, County, Crown dependency, Dam, Department, Dependent territory, Desert, Disputed territory, District, Division, Economic Prefecture, Emirate, Fall, Federal Dependencies, Federal District, Federal Status City, Federal Territory, Fjord, Freely associated area, General area, Glacier, Governorate, Gulf, Head, Hill(s), Independent Town, Independent state, Inland island, Inland island group, Intendancy, International, Isthmus, Lagoon, Lake, Landing, Military, Mountain, Mountains, Municipal, Municipality, National District, National Territory, Ocean, Ocean hazard, Oceanic island, Oceanic island group, Other, Other airport, Other mountains, Other ocean feature, Overseas administrative division, Overseas department, Overseas territory, Pakistan-administered, Parish, Peninsula, Point, Populated place, Prefecture, Province, Region, Republic, Reservoir, Ria, River, River mouth, Salt flat, Sea, Seasonal river, Self-governing administrative division, Self-governing commonwealth, Self-governing territory, Self-governing (freely associated), Special City, Special District, Special Municipality, Special Region, State, Strait, Territorial collectivity, Territory, To be determined, Topographic feature, Town, Unincorporated territory, Union Territory, Volcano, Well/Spring, Wetlands, Zone
- The list of descriptions.
- Definition Source
- Digital Chart of the World
- WITHIN
- The name for the geographic entity (usually a country) in which the feature is located.
- Named Countries, Continents, Oceans, Seas, and Gulfs
- The list of types of within values.
- Definition Source
- Digital Chart of the World, ArcWorld Supplement, Geographic and Global Issues, CIA Factbook
- FIPS_CNTRY
- The FIPS code (two-letter) for the country in which the feature is located. (Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 10-4National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Definition Source
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SDC
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090716
- 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
