Publication_Place: Woods Hole Field Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Description:
Abstract:
This ArcView shapefile represents the United States
and provides an overview of the United States
with a resonablly detailed coastline. The individual
50 states compiled from the higher resolution state
shapefile datasets 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 United States
boundaries and coastline.
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: -66.9498
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.2333
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.5441
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: individual states
Theme_Keyword: regions
Theme_Keyword: US Atlantic Coast
Theme_Keyword: Eastern United States
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Place_Keyword: United States
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.
Completeness_Report: This data set contains the complete US
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Environmental Research Institution, Inc. (ESRI)(comp.)
Publication_Date: 19990801
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: ESRI Data & Maps
Series_Information:
Series_Name: United States; Disks 3, 4 and 5
Issue_Identification:
Western United States; Eastern United States and Southern United States (by states)
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: 'state'trct.shp
Source_Contribution:
The individual 50 state 'trct' files were compiled
to create individual state files. Those files were
later combined to create a US shapefile with a medium
resolution coastline.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Each of the individual state shapefiles were processed
to dissolve the 'trct' boundaries. The database
was edited to remove unwanted attributes.
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:
usa.avl
usa.dbf
usa.prj
usa.sbn
usa.sbx
usa.shp
usa.shx
File_Decompression_Technique: No compression applied
Transfer_Size: 9,563,266Kb
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 seven files comprising the United States land mass for the project view
File_Decompression_Technique: zip
Transfer_Size: 5995Kb
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.
