METADATA FOR NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARIES
VERSION 2 RELEASE 0
Identification_Information
Citation:
Originator: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, (comp.)
Publication_Date: 2000
Title: National Park Boundaries
Publication Information
Publication Place: Washington, DC
Publisher: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Larger Work Citation
Originator: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Publication Date: 2000
Title: National Transportation Atlas Databases
Publication Information
Publication Place: Washington, DC
Publisher: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Description
Abstract: Variable scale boundaries for selected National
Parks, Recreation Areas, Seashores, Military Parks
Historical Areas, and Monuments in the United States
and territories.
Purpose: The database provides locational and attribute
information for use in national and regional
cartographic and spatial analysis applications.
Notes: This Park Boundaries file is the result of an
immediate need for this type of data in several GIS
databases being setup in the National Park Service.
These digital boundaries represent the "best guess"
and data that could be collected in a short time.
This data is not an "official" distribution by the
National Park Service, but is only provided to
assist those persons who require something to work
with.
Only 348 parks out of the current 368 are
represented in this data set. Although every
attempt has been made to find errors and correct
them it is probable that some still exist. The
boundaries are not necessarily the most up-to-date
and the acreage and other attributes may be
incorrect.
This coverage was assembled from many other existing
databases and any errors digitized or keyed in at
those sites may still exist in this composite. The
individual boundaries were collected when possible
from Parks that maintain their own GIS databases,
digitized from existing 1:24000 scale USGS
quadrangles, and various other maps ranging in scale
from 1:360 to 1:2,000,000. The dates from these
sources range from 1965 to the present and do not
necessarily reflect all boundary changes that have
occurred during this time period.
Of the original 348 parks represented, 23 of them are
shown with 2 meter square boxes. Good digitized
boundaries for these parks have not been located yet
but, we do have a point location within them. The boxes
were used to keep this coverage a strictly polygon
coverage instead of mixing points in with it.
Those park service units that are outside the continental
US are not shown well in this projection, but it was
simpler to maintain a single coverage of all parks. Those
parks with a "calculated" area of only 4 meters are the
point locations referred to above.
Time_Period_of_content:
Single Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 1994
Currentness_Reference: Publication date of sources
Status:
Progress: in work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.723557
East_Bounding_Coordinate: 144.728958
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 68.655945
South_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.288481
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Theme_Keyword: National Parks
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: US Territories
Access_Constraints: none
Data_Quality_Information
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report: See Entity_Attribute_Information
Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:
Attribute_Accuracy_Value: See Explanation
Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation:
Attribute accuracy is described, where present, with
each attribute defined in the Entity and Attribute
Section.
Logical_Consistency_Report: Polygon and chain-node
topology present and verified using ARC/INFO.
Completeness_Report: See Data Set Description Section
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Lineage
Source Information
Source Citation
Originator: National Park Service
Publication Date: 1994
Title: National Park Boundaries
Type of Source Media: online
Source Time Period of Content
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date: 1994
Source Currentness Reference: publication date
Source_Scale_Denominator: variable
Process Step
Process Description: The NPS National Park Boundary file
was merged with the United States State Boundary file
using ARC/INFO to create a data set containing separate
polygons for each portion of a park extant in multiple
states.
Source Used Citation Abbreviation: NPS PARKS
Source Used Citation Abbreviation: STATES
Process Date: 1996
Source Produced Citation Abbreviation: PARKS
Process Description: After completing topological and attribute
verification using ARC/INFO, the data was extracted and
reformatted into the BTS ACSII format.
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: 1787
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Area chain
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 995
Spatial_Reference_Information
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution: 0.001096
Longitude Resolution: 0.001096
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal Degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name: Geodetic Reference System (GRS) 1980
Entity_Attribute_Information
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_label: PARK.ARE
Entity_Type_Definition: Polygon Attribute Table
Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
Field Field Field Beg End Field Field
Number Name Width Pos Pos Type Description
1 RECTYPE 1 1 1 C Record Type: Always 'A'
2 VERSION 2 2 3 C File Version Number
3 REVISION 2 4 5 C Record revision number
4 MODDATE 8 6 13 I Record modification date
5 POLYID 10 14 23 I Unique identification for
each polygon
6 FEATURID 10 24 33 C Unique identification for
the geographic entity
7 CNTRLONG 10 34 43 I Centroid longitude value
for the polygon
8 CNTRLAT 10 44 54 I Centroid latitude value
for the polygon
9 DESCRIPT 35 55 88 C Name of the geographic
entity (Park name)
10 STFIPS 2 89 90 C State FIPS Code
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: RECTYPE
Attribute_Definition: One character which defines the type
of file from a data set.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: A
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: VERSION
Attribute_Definition: File version number
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REVISION
Attribute_Definition: Record revision number
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: MODDATE
Attribute_Definition: Record Modification Date
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: POLYID
Attribute_Definition: Unique identifier for each polygon
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FEATURID
Attribute_Definition: Unique identifier for the
geographic entity - this is a concatenated value containing
the State FIPS Code plus the Park Name abbreviation
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CNTRLONG
Attribute_Definition: Centroid longitude value for the
polygon expressed as an integer with six implied
decimal places
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CNTRLAT
Attribute_Definition: Centroid latitude value for the
polygon expressed as an integer with six implied
decimal places
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DESCRIPT
Attribute_Definition: Park name
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: STFIPS
Attribute_Definition: State FIPS Code
Attribute_Definition_Source: FIPS Pub 6-4
Attribute Domain Values:
Codeset Domain:
Codeset Name: Federal Information Processing Standard
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_label: PARK.GEO
Entity_Type_Definition: Line Attribute Table
Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
Field Field Field Beg End Field Field
Number Name Length Pos Pos Type Description
1 RECTYPE 1 1 1 C Record Type: always G'
2 VERSION 2 2 3 C File version number
3 REVISION 2 4 5 C Record revision number
4 MODDATE 8 6 13 I Record modification
date
5 LINKID 10 14 23 I Unique sequential line
identification
6 POLYIDL 10 24 33 I The polygon
identification number
(POLYID) for the left
line side
7 POLYIDR 10 34 43 I The polygon
identification number
(POLYID) for the right
line side
8 NPOINT 3 44 46 I Number of coordinate pairs
that define the linear
feature - the coordinate
pairs then follow on
subsequent lines in the file
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: RECTYPE
Attribute_Definition: One character which defines the type
of file from a data set.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: G
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: VERSION
Attribute_Definition: File version number
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REVISION
Attribute_Definition: Record revision number
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: MODDATE
Attribute_Definition: Record Modification Date
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LINKID
Attribute_Definition: Sequential Unique Identification for
each line
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: POLYIDL
Attribute_Definition: The polygon identification number
(POLYID) from the area (.are) file for the left line
side record
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: POLYIDR
Attribute_Definition: The polygon identification number
(POLYID) from the area (.are) file for the right line
side record
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: NPOINT
Attribute_Definition: Number of coordinate pairs that make
up the line - the coordinate pairs then follow - up to
four coordinate pairs per line, field length ten each
per longitude and latitude with six implied decimals
places
Attribute_Definition_Source: calculated
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LONGITUD
Attribute_Definition: The longitude of the node or shape
point expressed as a signed integer with six implied
decimal places.
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LATITUDE
Attribute_Definition: The latitude of the node or shape
point expressed as a signed integer with six implied
decimal places.
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Attribute Domain Values:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_label: PARK.T01
PARK.DBF
Entity_Type_Definition: Polygon Attribute File
Field Field Field Field Beg End Field
Number Name Type Width Pos Pos Description
1 RECTYPE C 1 1 1 Record Type: Always 'T'
2 VERSION C 2 2 3 File Version Number
3 REVISION C 2 4 5 Record revision number
4 MODDATE I 8 6 13 Attribute modification
date
5 FEATURID C 10 14 23 Unique identification for
each park (ABREV)
6 PNAME C 40 24 63 Park Name
7 PAREA N 12 64 75 Park Area
8 CLASS I 1 76 76 Clean Air Act
classification level
9 REGION C 18 77 94 NPS Region
10 SNR I 1 95 95 Significant Natural
Resource Indicator
11 GEOG C 4 96 99 Geographic Location of
the Park
12 LABEL I 1 100 100 Label to identify main
park polygon
13 SCALE C 10 101 110 Scale at which the
boundary was digitized
14 DATE I 4 111 114 Year the boundary was
digitized
15 SOURCE C 20 115 134 Source map from which the
boundary was digitized
16 STFIPS C 2 135 136 State FIPS Code in which
the park polygon is
located
17 ST_NAME C 25 137 161 State Name in which the
park polygon is located
18 STATECODE C 2 162 163 State Postal Code
abbreviation
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: RECTYPE
Attribute_Definition: One character which defines the type
of file from a data set.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: T
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: VERSION
Attribute_Definition: File version number
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REVISION
Attribute_Definition: Record revision number
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: MODDATE
Attribute_Definition: Record Modification Date
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FEATURID
Attribute_Definition: a unique identifier for the entity - this
is a concatenated value containing the State FIPS Code plus
the Park Name abbreviation
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: PNAME
Attribute_Definition: Park Name
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: PAREA
Attribute_Definition: The total acreage as listed in the
NPS handbook (1991).
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CLASS
Attribute_Definition: The Clean Air Act level of air
quality protection. This can be class one or two.
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REGION
Attribute_Definition: NPS Region responsible for the
park. Subject to change if the NPS reorganizes.
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SNR
Attribute_Definition: Significant Natural Resource (part
of the I&M initiative)
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0 1
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: GEOG
Attribute_Definition: Geographic area in which the park is
located
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LABEL
Attribute_Definition: label point signifying the major
area of each park
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 2
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SCALE
Attribute_Definition: scale at which the boundary was
digitized
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DATE
Attribute_Definition: Year of the map from which the
boundary was digitized
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SOURCE
Attribute_Definition: Source maps from which the boundary
was digitized
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: STFIPS
Attribute_Definition: State FIPS Code of the state in
which the park polygon is located
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Attribute Domain Values:
Codeset_Domain:
Codeset_Name: Federal Information Processing Standard
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ST_NAME
Attribute_Definition: State name in which the park polygon
is located
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: STATECODE
Attribute_Definition: state postal abbreviation in which
the park polygon is located
Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned
Attribute Domain Values:
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