Census Landmarks, New York, 2000 (FGDC metadata)

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Census Bureau

Publication_Date: 2001

Title: Census Landmarks, New York, 2000

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: TIGER/Line Files

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Washington, DC

Publisher: U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division

Online_Linkage: https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-008191

Description:

Abstract: CUGIR, the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository, using US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census data, developed the GIS data set versions of 2000 Census TIGER/Line files for 12 coverages for each of the 62 counties in New York State.

Purpose: These files were developed to enable a user to see the geographic component from the 2000 Census. They can be used to join demographic data from the 2000 census for use in a geographic information system.

Supplemental_Information: To find out more about TIGER/Line files and other Census TIGER data base derived data sets visit: <https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html>

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2000

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: TIGER/Line files are extracted from the Census TIGER data base when needed for geographic programs required to support the census and survey programs of the U.S. Census Bureau. No changes or updates will be made to the Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. Future releases of TIGER/Line files will reflect updates made to the Census TIGER data base and will be released under a version numbering system based on the month and year the data is extracted.

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.762589

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.777491

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.002767

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.477383

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Landmarks

Theme_Keyword: Land-use Areas

Theme_Keyword: Military Installations

Theme_Keyword: Multi-household or Transient Quarters

Theme_Keyword: Rooming Houses

Theme_Keyword: Boarding Houses

Theme_Keyword: Trailer Courts

Theme_Keyword: Mobile Home Parks

Theme_Keyword: Crew-of-vessel Areas

Theme_Keyword: Housing Facilities for Workers

Theme_Keyword: Hotels

Theme_Keyword: Motels

Theme_Keyword: Resorts

Theme_Keyword: Spas

Theme_Keyword: YMCAs

Theme_Keyword: YWCAs

Theme_Keyword: Campgrounds

Theme_Keyword: Shelters

Theme_Keyword: Missions

Theme_Keyword: Custodial Facilities

Theme_Keyword: Hospitals

Theme_Keyword: Halfway Houses

Theme_Keyword: Nursing Homes

Theme_Keyword: Retirement Homes

Theme_Keyword: County Homes

Theme_Keyword: Poor Farms

Theme_Keyword: Detention Centers

Theme_Keyword: Federal Penitentiaries

Theme_Keyword: Educational Institutions

Theme_Keyword: Religious Institutions

Theme_Keyword: Sororities

Theme_Keyword: Fraternities

Theme_Keyword: Monastaries

Theme_Keyword: Academies

Theme_Keyword: Churches

Theme_Keyword: Synagogues

Theme_Keyword: Seminaries

Theme_Keyword: Temples

Theme_Keyword: Mosques

Theme_Keyword: Transporation Terminals

Theme_Keyword: Airfields

Theme_Keyword: Train Stations

Theme_Keyword: Bus Terminals

Theme_Keyword: Marine Terminals

Theme_Keyword: Seaplane Anchorages

Theme_Keyword: Employment Centers

Theme_Keyword: Major Retail Centers

Theme_Keyword: Industrial Buildinges

Theme_Keyword: Industrial Parks

Theme_Keyword: Office Buildings

Theme_Keyword: Office Parks

Theme_Keyword: Government Centers

Theme_Keyword: Towers

Theme_Keyword: Lookout Towers

Theme_Keyword: Open Spaces

Theme_Keyword: National Parks

Theme_Keyword: National Forests

Theme_Keyword: Other Federal Lands

Theme_Keyword: State Parks

Theme_Keyword: State Forests

Theme_Keyword: Local Parks

Theme_Keyword: Local Forests

Theme_Keyword: Special Purpose Landmarks

Theme_Keyword: Post Office Box-only ZIP Code Locations

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: LCSH

Theme_Keyword: Amusement parks

Theme_Keyword: Apartment houses

Theme_Keyword: Cemeteries

Theme_Keyword: Convents

Theme_Keyword: Golf courses

Theme_Keyword: Industrial districts

Theme_Keyword: Jails

Theme_Keyword: Land use

Theme_Keyword: Marinas

Theme_Keyword: Office buildings

Theme_Keyword: Orphanages

Theme_Keyword: Prisons

Theme_Keyword: Schools

Theme_Keyword: Shopping

Theme_Keyword: Universities and colleges

Theme_Keyword: Urbanization

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: location

Theme_Keyword: society

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CUGIR Category

Theme_Keyword: location

Theme_Keyword: society

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: LCSH

Place_Keyword: New York (State)

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints: None. Acknowledgment of the U.S. Census Bureau would be appreciated for products derived from these files. TIGER, TIGER/Line, and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. ZCTA is a trademark of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Native_Data_Set_Environment: TIGER/Line files are created and processed in a VMS environment. The environment consists of two Alpha Server 8400s clustered together running OpenVMS version 6.2-1H3 used for production operations. The Census TIGER system is driven by DEC Command language (DCL) procedures which invoke C software routines to extract selected geographic and cartographic information (TIGER/Line files) from the operational Census TIGER data base.

Data_Quality_Information

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Accurate against Federal information Processing Standards (FIPS), FIPS Publication 6-4, and FIPS-55 at the 100% level for the codes and base names. The remaining attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for accuracy.

Logical_Consistency_Report: The feature network of lines (as represented by Record Types 1 and 2) is compete for census purposes. Spatial objects in TIGER/Line belong to the "Geometry and Topology" (GT) class of objects in the "Spatial Data Transfer Standard" (SDTS) FIPS Publication 173 and are topologically valid. Node/geometry and topology (GT)-polygon/chain relationships are collected or generated to satisfy topological edit requirements. These requirements include: -Complete chains must begin and end at nodes; -Complete chains must connect to each other at nodes; -Complete chains do not extend through nodes; -Left and right GT-polygons are defined for each complete chain element and are consistent throughout the extract process. -The chains representing the limits of the files are free of gaps. The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical consistency and limits of files. All polygons are tested for closure. The Census Bureau uses its internally developed Geographic Update System to enhance and modify spatial and attribute data in the Census TIGER data base. Standard geographic codes, such as FIPS codes for states, counties, municipalities, and places, are used when encoding spatial entities. The Census Bureau performed spatial data tests for logical consistency of the codes during the compilation of the original Census TIGER data base files. Most of the Codes themselves were provided to the Census Bureau by the USGS, the agency responsible for maintaining FIPS 55. Feature attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for consistency.

Completeness_Report: Data completeness of the TIGER/Line files reflects the contents of the Census TIGER data base at the time the TIGER/Line files (Census 2000 version) were created.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The information present in these files is provided for the purposes of statistical analysis and census operations only. Coordinates in the TIGER/Line files have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest. The positional accuracy varies with the source materials used, but generally the information is no better than the established national map Accuracy standards for 1:100,000-scale maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); thus it is NOT suitable for high-precision measurement applications such as engineering problems, property transfers, or other uses that might require highly accurate measurements of the earth's surface. The USGS 1:100,000-scale maps met national map accuracy standards and use coordinates defined by the North American Datum, 1983. For the contiguous 48 States, the cartographic fidelity of most of the Census 2000 TIGER/Line files, in areas outside the 1980 census Geographic Base File/Dual Independent map Encoding (GBF/DIME) file coverage and selected other large metropolitan areas, compare favorably with the USGS 1:100,000-scale maps. The Census Bureau cannot specify the accuracy of features inside of what was the 1980 GBF/DIME-File coverage or selected metropolitan areas. The Census Bureau added updates to the TIGER/Line files that enumerators annotated on maps sheets prepared from the Census TIGER data base as they attempted to traverse every street feature shown on the Census 2000 map sheets; the Census Bureau also made other corrections from updated map sheets supplied by local participants for Census Bureau programs. The locational accuracy of these updates is of unknown quality. In addition to the Federal, State, and local sources, portions of the files may contain information obtained in part from maps and other materials prepared by private companies. Despite the fact the TIGER/Line data positional accuracy is not as high as the coordinate values imply, the six- decimal place precision is useful when producing maps. The precision allows features that are next to each other on the ground to be placed in the correct position, on the map, relative to each other, without overlap.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Census Bureau

Publication_Date: Unpublished material

Title: Census TIGER data base

Edition: Census 2000

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000

Type_of_Source_Media: On line

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2000

Source_Currentness_Reference: Date the file was made available to create TIGER/Line File extracts.

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: TIGER

Source_Contribution: Selected geographic and cartographic information (line segments) from the Census TIGER data base.

Process_Step:

Process_Description: In order for others to use the information in the Census TIGER data base in a GIS or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases periodic extracts of selected information from the Census TIGER data base, organized as topologically consistent networks. Software (TIGER DB routines) written by the Geography Division allows for efficient access to Census TIGER system data. TIGER/Line files are extracted from the Census TIGER data base by county or statistical equivalent area. Census TIGER data for a given county or statistical equivalent area is then distributed among 17 fixed length record ASCII files, each one containing attributes for either line, polygon, or landmark geographic data types. The Census Bureau has released various versions of the TIGER/Line files since 1988, with each version having more updates (feature and feature names, address ranges and ZIP Codes, coordinate updates, revised field definitions, etc.) than the previous version.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Census TIGER data base

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description: The 2000 TIGER shapefiles were downloaded originally from the Geography Network <http://www.geographynetwork.com> and made available in CUGIR. Each Census hierarchical level (County, Tract, Block Group, and Block) was joined to it's associated SF1 demographics database table, also downloaded from the Geography Network. A VBA script was written within ArcGIS 8.2 (ArcInfo) to automate the process of joining each county level file with its demographic table, and then exporting with unique file names. This process was done 4 times, one for each of the Census geographies. For the remaining TIGER data, (all but the boundary files) all files were originally downloaded from Geography Network, renamed and added to CUGIR with no further processing. Information concerning steps taken to create TIGER/Line is available in "Chapter 5: Data Quality" in TIGER/Line 2000 Technical Documentation <https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tiger2k/tiger2k.pdf>.

Process_Date: 2001

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information

Spatial_Reference_Information

Entity_and_Attribute_Information

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: All TIGER/Line files contain data describing three major types of features/entities; Line Features: 1) Roads, 2) Railroads, 3) Hydrography, 4) Miscellaneous transportation features and selected power lines and pipe lines, 5) Political and statistical boundaries Landmark Features: 1) Point landmarks, e.g., schools and churche, 2) Area landmarks, e.g., Parks and cemeteries, 3) Key geographic locations (KGLs), e.g., shopping centers and factories. Polygon features: 1) Geographic entity codes for areas used to tabulate the Census 2000 census statistical data and 2000 geographic areas, 2) Locations of area landmarks, 3) Locations of KGLs The line features and polygon information form the majority of data in the TIGER/Line files. Some of the data/attributes describing the lines include coordinates, feature identifiers (names), CFCCs (used to identify the most noticeable characteristic of a feature), address ranges, and geographic entity codes. The TIGER/Line files contain point and area labels that describe landmark features and provide locational reference. Area landmarks consist of a feature name or label and feature type assigned to a polygon or group of polygons. Landmarks may overlap or refer to the same set of polygons. The Census TIGER data base uses collections of spatial objects (points, lines, and polygons) to model or describe real-world geography. The Census Bureau uses these spatial objects to represent features such as streets, rivers, and political boundaries and assigns attributes to these features to identify and describe specific features.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: More Entity and Attribute Information can be found in "Chapter 5" and "Chapter 6" in the U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line files, Census 2000 Technical Documentation, which is available at: <https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tiger2k/tiger2k.pdf>. The TIGER/Line documentation defines the terms and definitions used within the files.

Distribution_Information

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Albert R. Mann Library

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: Cornell University

City: Ithaca

State_or_Province: New York

Postal_Code: 14853

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 607-255-5406

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mann-ref@cornell.edu

Distribution_Liability: Cornell University provides these geographic data "as is". Cornell University makes no guarantee or warranty concerning the accuracy of information contained in the geographic data. Cornell University further makes no warranty either expressed or implied, regarding the condition of the product or its fitness for any particular purpose. The burden for determining fitness for use lies entirely with the user. Although these files have been processed successfully on computers at Cornell University, no warranty is made by Cornell University regarding the use of these data on any other system, nor does the fact of distribution constitute or imply any such warranty.

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Fees: None

Census Landmarks, New York, 2000

Identification_Information

Data_Quality_Information

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information

Spatial_Reference_Information

Entity_and_Attribute_Information

Distribution_Information

Metadata_Reference_Information