Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey, and the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of the Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA) Publication_Date: 1994 Publication_Time: Unknown Title: ALLUS80K: Medium Resolution Digital Vector U.S. Shoreline shapefile Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Silver Spring, MD Publisher: NOAA/NOS/ORCA/SEA Online_Linkage: http://sposerver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html Online_Linkage: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/coastlines/nos80k/allus80k.zip Description: Abstract: NOAA's Medium Resolution 1:70,000 scale Digital Vector Shoreline is a high-quality, Geographic Information System-ready, general-use digital vector data set containing the coastline of the contiguous United States of America. It was created by the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of NOAA's Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment. Compiled from hundreds of NOAA coast charts, this product comprises over 75,000 nautical miles of coastline (nearly 2.5 million vectices). The shoreline was created from data captured (digitized from scanned images of the master separates of the NOS Charts) from over 270 National Ocean Service Navigation Charts and spans some 80,000 nautical miles at an average map scale of 1:70,000. Purpose: This product comprises over 75,000 nautical miles of coastline (nearly 2.5 million vectices), representing the entire conterminous United States of America. Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and all other interests and territories of the United States are not included in the collection. The data set is designed for a broad target audience ranging from governmental agencies, universities and other research institutions, to the private sector, and students, as well as any other concern requiring a general purpose digital shoreline layer for GIS and cartographic projects. Supplemental_Information: Generally, 1:80,000 NOAA coast charts took precedence and were used when available. For areas where 1:80,000 charts were not readily available, charts with the next closest higher scale (e.g., 1:60,0000) were used down to the highest scale available. Alternately, if higher scale charts were not available, charts of the closest lower scale (e.g., 1:100,000) were used down to the lowest scale. The digital shoreline for Florida was obtained from the state. This digital file was originally created from NOAA nautical charts and was not recreated by SEA. Generally, for these shoreline sections (EC80_06, GC80_05, and GC80_06), the highest scale charts available were used to digitize the shoreline. The resultant average mapping scale for the entire Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline is approximately 1:70,000. See NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline website for more details on this product: Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1994 Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -124.762451 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -66.791978 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.373047 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.501658 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Theme_Keyword: NOAA Theme_Keyword: Digital Vector Shoreline Theme_Keyword: ArcView shapefile Theme_Keyword: Digital Geographic Boundaries Theme_Keyword: shore Theme_Keyword: shoreline Theme_Keyword: coast Theme_Keyword: coastal features Theme_Keyword: polygon Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic category Theme_Keyword: boundaries Theme_Keyword: elevation Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: contiguous US Place_Keyword: US 48 states Place_Keyword: North America Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: Not for Navigational Purposes Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Steve Rohmann Contact_Organization: NOAA/NOS/SEA/ORCA Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: NOAA Address: N/ORCA1 Address: 9th Floor Address: 1305 East-West Highway City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3000 x137 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: srohmann@seamail.nos.noaa.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/coastlines/nos80k/allus80k.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Overview showing the extent of the ALLUS80K shapefile Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/coastlines/nos80k/allus80k-det1.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Image showing coastline detail in the Boston/Cape Cod area. Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Data_Set_Credit: Please credit National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey, and the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of the Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA) as the originator of the dataset. Native_Data_Set_Environment: Digital files are available in two general formats (.BNA, and .GEN). There is 100% redundancy between these two formats. The digital files contain no point, polygon, regional, or thematic associations. = Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: The data supplied here are a compilation of information collected from some 270+ current or pre-release National Ocean Service Navigation Charts. In compiling this product we made no attempt to ascertain the congruency between the charted data, and the real world. Our objective was to simply capture the representative coastline as provided to us via the NOS Chart. Every effort was made to capture the shoreline on these charts as faithfully as our skills and technology allowed, and there is every indication that we were successful to this end. However, in doing so, we automatically conveyed the character (all aspects, both good and bad) of those data to our digital product. A character which may or may not be in agreement with the real world. Because of this, the user is advised to exercise caution in making any assumptions about the fallibility, or infallibility, of the spatial information supplied here; especially when circumstances warrant a high degree of absolute positional accuracy. Spatial data were derived directly from National Ocean Service Navigation Charts. The NOS Chart Products meet or exceed National Map Accuracy standards (hard copy); the digital data supplied in this compilation should, when plotted at scale, meet or exceed these same cartographic standards. Logical_Consistency_Report: No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on the data. Completeness_Report: This is the complete dataset as provided by NOAA. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The data supplied here are a compilation of information collected from some 270+ current or pre-release National Ocean Service Navigation Charts. In compiling this product we made no attempt to ascertain the congruency between the charted data, and the real world. Our objective was to simply capture the representative coastline as provided to us via the NOS Chart. Every effort was made to capture the shoreline on these charts as faithfully as our skills and technology allowed, and there is every indication that we were successful to this end. However, in doing so, we automatically conveyed the character (all aspects, both good and bad) of those data to our digital product. A character which may or may not be in agreement with the real world. Because of this, the user is advised to exercise caution in making any assumptions about the fallibility, or infallibility, of the spatial information supplied here; especially when circumstances warrant a high degree of absolute positional accuracy. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Special Projects Office Publication_Date: Unknown Title: NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Online_Linkage: http://sposerver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html Source_Scale_Denominator: 80000 Type_of_Source_Media: disc Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1994 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline Source_Contribution: NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline is a high-quality, Geographic Information System-ready, general-use digital vector data set created by the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of NOAA's Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment. Compiled from hundreds of NOAA coast charts, this product comprises over 75,000 nautical miles of coastline (nearly 2.5 million vectices), representing the entire coterminous United States of America. Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and all other interests and territories of the United States are not included in the collection. The previously digitized coastlines were combined to create a polygon representation of the 48 contiguous United States. 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Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features. Attribute: Attribute_Label: ID Attribute_Definition: Feature identifier. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Unspecified. Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Steve Rohmann Contact_Organization: NOAA, N/ORCA1 Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: NOAA Address: N/ORCA1 Address: 9th Floor Address: 1305 East-West Highway City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3000 x137 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rohmann@seamail.nos.noaa.gov Resource_Description: Downloadable Data: Medium Resolution Digital Vector U.S. Shoreline [OL 72 18.7 -66.5 -168] Distribution_Liability: Although this data has been processed successfully on a computer system at NOAA, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by NOAA regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such war-ranty. NOAA warrants the delivery of this product in computer-readable format, and will offer a replacement copy of the product when the product is determined unreadable by computer input peripherals, or when the physical medium is delivered in damaged condition. Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: Shapefile Transfer_Size: 38.544 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: Fees: None Technical_Prerequisites: These data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS¨ or ArcView¨ 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data. A free data viewer, arcexplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: Shapefile Format_Version_Number: ArcView 3.3 Format_Specification: Winzip 8.0 Format_Information_Content: shapefile components, browse graphics and metadata File_Decompression_Technique: zip Transfer_Size: 38.544 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/coastlines/nos80k/allus80k.zip Fees: None Technical_Prerequisites: These data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS¨ or ArcView¨ 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data. A free data viewer, arcexplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. 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