Abstract: Agricultural districts in Tompkins County.
Purpose: Agricultural districts represent private tax parcels that are regulated by New York
State Agricultural District Law. The Law is meant to protect and promote the use of
agricultural land.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2000
Currentness_Reference: District 1 was reviewed in 1996. District 2 was reviewed in 2000.
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Each district is reviewed every 8 years, with District 2 reviewed 4 years after the
last review of District 1.
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -76.696211
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -76.248765
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.62748
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.28149
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: agricultural districts
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: LCSH
Theme_Keyword: agriculture
Theme_Keyword: real property
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: farming
Theme_Keyword: planningCadastre
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CUGIR Category
Theme_Keyword: agriculture
Theme_Keyword: property
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: LCSH
Place_Keyword: Tompkins County, New York
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: The following statement must be included with any products that use or are derived
from this data set: Data contained in this product was originally produced by the Tompkins
County ITS GIS Division and may not be reproduced or redistributed without the express written
consent of the originator. The originator does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the
information portrayed by the data.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Attribute_Accuracy_Report: See Entity and Attribute Information
Logical_Consistency_Report: New York State provides a list of parcels that are currently in each district. During a
review, the present boundary is compared to the State's list to check for discrepencies due to
parcel splits/merges. Parcels to be added or removed have their AGDIST field changed
accordingly. A new boundary is then generated based on current parcel numbers.
Completeness_Report: Complete coverage for Tompkins County.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Varies, depending on source of municipal boundary (survey, deed, planimetrics).
Accuracy is limited to the accuracy of the 1991 Tompkins County Planimetric Base Map
series.
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Accuracy is limited to the accuracy of the 1991 Tompkins County Planimetric Base
Map series.
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Agricultural districts were originally compiled in MapGrafix software from
digitized tax parcel maps. The boundaries were later converted to an Arc/Info coverage.
District 2 was reviewed in 2000 and resulted in the removal and addition of some parcels.
The boundary for District 1 was derived from the MapGrafix version and includes public
right-of-ways. District 2's boundary was derived from the Tompkins County Digital Tax
Parcel data sets and does not include public right-of-ways. The actual "boundary" is
maintained in the AGDIST field in each of the Digital Tax Parcel data sets This data set
is created by using the REGIONDISSOLVE command in Arc/Info to create a temporary
agricultural district region for each parcel data set. The individual data sets are then
combined into one data set by selecting each temporary district region in ArcEdit and
using the PUT command to place them in a common data set. The REGIONDISSOVE command is
then used on the common data set's temporary agricultural districts to merge the separate
pieces into the final Agdistrict region. The temporary agricultural districts are then
removed.
Process_Date: 2000
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
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