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World Gazetteer, 2000
- 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, Inc. (ESRI)
- Publication Date
- 2000
- Title
- World Gazetteer, 2000
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/landinfo_world_gaz_2000.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.
- 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
- 2000
- Bounding Box
- West
- -179.979996
- East
- 179.910004
- North
- 85.213997
- South
- -86.905998
- Theme Keyword
- society
- location
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme Keyword
- gazetteer
- airports
- coastal features
- drainage features
- islands
- land features
- ocean features
- political features
- populated places
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- World
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2000
- 1996
- 1992
- 1993
- 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
- Unknown
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping, LLC
- Delivery Point
- PO Box 261961
- City
- Highlands Ranch
- State
- CO
- Postal Code
- 80163-1961
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 303-790-9730
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- sales@landinfo.com
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.6.1500
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- No duplicate features are present. The shapefile 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
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
- Originator
- Defense Mapping Agency, presently known as National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- Publication Date
- 1992
- Title
- Digital Chart of the World
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (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
- 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
- 2000
- Title
- The World Factbook 2000
- Series Information
- Series Name
- The World Factbook
- Issue Identification
- 2000
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington, DC, USA
- Publisher
- United States Central Intelligence Agency
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2000
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
- Publication Date
- 1996
- Title
- ArcWorld Supplement
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (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 Date
- 2000
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- online
- Publisher
- Government of Nunavut
- 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
- 55810
- 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_gaz
- Entity Type Definition
- The points represent the locations and proper names for map features around the world.
- 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
- TEXT
- Name
- TYPE
- Description
- Distribution Information
- Distributor
- LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping, LLC
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20080929
- 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
- 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
