Publication_Place: Woods Hole Field Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Description:
Abstract:
This ArcView shapefile represents the larger,
major lakes within the United States. The shapefile
dataset was provided by Environmental Research
Institution, Inc. (ESRI) as data distribution with
their software.
Purpose:
This ArcView shapefile may be used as a general
basemap data layer to illustrate the lakes of
the United States.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20010331
Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -84.1333
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.1981
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 46.5327
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 26.6828
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Field Center
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: ArcView shapefile
Theme_Keyword: basemap
Theme_Keyword: lakes of the United States
Theme_Keyword: US lakes
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: Clarks Hill Lake
Place_Keyword: Gayuga Lake
Place_Keyword: Keuka Lake
Place_Keyword: Lake Champlain
Place_Keyword: Lake Erie
Place_Keyword: Lake Huron
Place_Keyword: Lake Okeechobee
Place_Keyword: Lake Ontario
Place_Keyword: Lake St. Clair
Place_Keyword: Lake Winnipesaukee
Place_Keyword: Seneca Lake
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
Although this derived data set and it's lineage dataset
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.
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: image showing US lakes shapefile
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF
Data_Set_Credit:
This dataset is the lakes shapefile
provided by Environmental Research Institution, Inc.
(ESRI) on the data CD distributed with their software.
Native_Data_Set_Environment: ArcView version 3.2 shapefile
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report: none
Completeness_Report:
This data set contains the US lakes shapefile clipped to the extent of the project view area
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Environmental Research Institution, Inc. (ESRI)
Publication_Date: 19990801
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: ESRI Data & maps
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Redlands, CA
Publisher: Environmental Research Institution, Inc. (ESRI)
Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 19990801
Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: lakes.shp
Source_Contribution:
The lakes shapefile was taken in it's complete
form from the ESRI data distribution disk. The
shapefile is to be used for various map data layers
in projects ranging from the CMGP ArcIMS and OFR
GIS data release compilations.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The individual complete lakes shapefile was copied
from the ESRI data distribution disk.
The lakes shapefile was clipped using the ArcView
extension Xtools and the 'background' data layer
to fit the extent of the project view area. The
Area attribute was then recomputed using the Xtools
extension to reflect the
new polygon values.
Although this derived data set and it's lineage dataset
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: ARCV
Format_Information_Content:
lakes.avl
lakes.dbf
lakes.prj
lakes.shp
lakes.shx
File_Decompression_Technique: No compression applied
Transfer_Size: 9,589Kb
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 a WWW browser available.
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: ARCV
Format_Information_Content:
The five files comprising the United States lakes land mass for the project view area
File_Decompression_Technique: zip
Transfer_Size: 8Kb
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 program capable of reading and
processing the zip file. 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 a WWW browser available.
Fees: none
Technical_Prerequisites:
The base map overlay is available as an
ArcView shapefile format. The user must have
ESRI's ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and
process the data file. In lieu of Arcview, the user
may utilize another GIS application package capable
of importing the data.
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
documentation and user interface in HTML allows a user
to access the information by using a variety of
WWW information browsers to facilitate browsing and
locating information and data. To access the information
contained on this disk with a WWW client browser, open
the file 'index.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.
