Mexico and Cuba

Metadata:

Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Valerie Paskevich(comp.)
Publication_Date: 19990819
Title: Mexico and Cuba
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Defense Mapping Agency(comp.)
Publication_Date: Unknown
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: World Data Bank II
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Description:
Abstract:
This GIS overlay is a component of the U. S Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center's, Gulf of Mexico ArcView GIS database. The Gulf of Mexico GIS database is intended to organize and display USGS held data and provide on-line (WWW) access to the data and/or metadata.
Purpose:
This ArcView GIS layer is intended as a backdrop to the Gulf of Mexico area map. It contains the South America body of land that falls within the database bounds.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 19990819
Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -99.5822
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.4995
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 27.4941
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 22.4933
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Field Center
Theme_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico database
Theme_Keyword: coastline
Theme_Keyword: foreign countries
Theme_Keyword: ArcView
Theme_Keyword: shapefile
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Gulf of Mexico
Place_Keyword: Mexico
Place_Keyword: Cuba
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
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
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Hours_of_Service: M-Thu 6:30am-3:30pm; Fri 6:30am-10:30am
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name: sabody
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: GIF
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: MexicoCuba land mass for Gulf of Mexico ArcView project area
Native_Data_Set_Environment: ESRI Shapefile format
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on this data set.
Completeness_Report: none
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U. S. Defense Mapping Agency(comp.)
Publication_Date: Unknown
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: World Data Bank II coastline
Edition: U. S. Defense Mapping Agency
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Source_Scale_Denominator: 2000000
Type_of_Source_Media: magnetic tape
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 19981006
Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: WDBII
Source_Contribution:
The World Data Bank II vector information was used to generate the US/Mexico international border and the coastlines of Mexico and Cuba.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The World Data Bank II coastline information has been stored in a format for use with the U.S. Geological Survey's Mapgen prorgam. The vector latitude/longitude coordinates were extracted from from the MAPGEN file with the area coordinates of -99.5, 31.5 and -79.5, 22.5. This retrieval was done for the South America coastline (sacoast.txt) and the US/Mexico international boundary (sabdy.txt). The two separate ASCII files that contained lon/lat values for the vector segments were created and combined during various processing steps to create complete polygons for the South American countries.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: WDBII
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: MAPGEN coast files
Process_Date: 19980928
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sacoast.txt
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabdy.txt
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
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
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The ASCII files generated from the MAPGEN coast files were imported to PCI Remote Sensing Software's Imageworks program. Each file was imported to a separate segment. Polygons that should have been closed were checked, and if not closed, they were closed during the Imageworks vector editting session. Each of the countries were editted so as to create a complete polygon for that individual country. This was done by combining the country coastline (sacoast.txt) and the US/Mexico border (sabdy.txt). Additional lines were drawn at the edge of the database to completely cose some polygons. The newly editted vectors was then saved in the PCIdatabase file and exported as ARC export (.e00) files with the nodes recorded as latitude/longitude in decimal degrees.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sacoast.txt
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sabdy.txt
Process_Date: 19981002
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.e00
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
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
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The ARC export file, sabody.e00, was imported to ARC as coverage sabody. One polygon that formed an inland lake was removed from the coverage as all the lakes for the area will be held in a separate coverage. No clean was necessary and the polygon was built directly from the imported file.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.e00
Process_Date: 19981005
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.pat
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
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
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The ARC polygon coverage, sabody.pat, was exported as an ArcView shapefile, sabody.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.pat
Process_Date: 19981005
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.shp
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.dbf
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.shx
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
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
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The ArcView shapefile, sabody, was brought into ArcView for some final editting. Polygons that represented inland waterways were deleted from the coverage as to make polygon "donuts". The sabody attributes table was modified to add one field, country. The table was editted to identify the polygons as to their country affiliation. This is the final file created for this overlay/theme.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.shp
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.dbf
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.shx
Process_Date: 19981005
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.shp
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.dbf
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: sabody.shx
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
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
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 38
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: sabody.dbf
Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Attribute Table
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Area
Attribute_Definition:
Area of polygon. The Area is carried over from the AREA attribute in ArcInfo. AREA is an ArcInfo internal control parameter and has no relevance to the use of the data.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Software computed
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.000
Range_Domain_Maximum: 7.261
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Perimeter
Attribute_Definition:
Perimeter of polygon. The Perimeter is carried over from the PERIMETER attribute in ArcInfo. PERIMTER is an ArcInfo internal control parameter and has no applicable relevance to the use of the data.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Software computed
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.072
Range_Domain_Maximum: 26.606
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Sabody_
Attribute_Definition:
Value from ARC assigned SABODY# from sabody.pat table. Generally has no meaning in ArcView shapefile.
Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 2
Range_Domain_Maximum: 35
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Sabody_id
Attribute_Definition:
Value from ARC assigned SABODY-ID from sabody.pat table. Generally has no meaning in ArcView shapefile.
Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
Range_Domain_Maximum: 34
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Country
Attribute_Definition: country name assigned to polygon
Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character field
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
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
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Resource_Description: Gulf of Mexico GIS database: sabody.shp
Distribution_Liability:
Although this derived data set and their lineage datasets have been used by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: ARCE
Format_Information_Content:
sabody.shp
sabody.dbf
sabody.shx
File_Decompression_Technique: No compression applied
Transfer_Size: 85Kb
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Offline_Option:
Offline_Media: CD-ROM
Recording_Capacity:
Recording_Density: 650
Recording_Density_Units: Mbytes
Recording_Format: ISO 9600
Compatibility_Information:
The user must have a system with a CD-ROM capable of reading an ISO-9660 standard CD-ROM disk. To browse the information contained on this disk, the user must also have a current version of WWW browser available.
Fees: none
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: ARCE
Format_Information_Content:
The three ArcView shapefiles (sabdy.dbf, sabdy.shp, sabdy.shx) comprising the MexicoCuba (sabdy) coverage.
File_Decompression_Technique: zip
Transfer_Size: 31Kb
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Offline_Option:
Offline_Media: CD-ROM
Recording_Capacity:
Recording_Density: 650
Recording_Density_Units: Mbytes
Recording_Format: ISO 9600
Compatibility_Information:
The user must have a system with a CD-ROM capable of reading an ISO-9660 standard CD-ROM disk. To browse the information contained on this disk, the user must also have a current version of WWW browser available.
Fees: none
Technical_Prerequisites:
Access to the data and information contained on this CD-ROM was developed using the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) utilized by the World Wide Web (WWW) project. Development of the CD-ROM ocumentation and user interface in HTML allows a user to access the information by using a variety of WWW information browsers (i.e. NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, Microsoft Explorer) to facilitate browsing and locating information and data. To access the information contained on this disk with a WWW client browser, open the file 'intro.htm' at the top level directory of this CD-ROM with your selected browser.

 
This CD-ROM should be readable by a variety of operating systems including Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh and UNIX.

 
The MecixoCuba land body is available in ArcView shapefile format. The use must have ArcView to read and process the data file or another GIS application package capable of importing the data.
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 19990819
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
Contact_Organization: U. S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Computer Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: CSDGM version 2
Metadata_Time_Convention: Local time
Metadata_Access_Constraints: None
Metadata_Use_Constraints:
Although this derived data set and their lineage datasets have been used by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials.
Generated by mp on Thu Aug 19 11:23:21 1999