Canadian Province Boundaries

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Publication_Date: 1998

Title: Canadian Province Boundaries

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Washington, DC

Publisher: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Larger_Work_Citation:

Originator: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Publication_Date: 1998

Title: North American Transportation Atlas Data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Washington, DC

Publisher: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Online_Linkage: <http://www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis/canada.html>

Description:

Abstract:

The Canadian Province Boundaries database is a geographic database of Canadian political boundaries derived from the Digital Chart of the World.

Purpose:

The data provide users with information about the location and names of the provinces for regional, national, or international planning applications.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1995

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -141.000000

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -52.636292

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 83.110619

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.708298

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: area

Theme_Keyword: background

Theme_Keyword: polygon

Theme_Keyword: boundary

Theme_Keyword: province boundary

Theme_Keyword: geographic entity

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Canada

Place_Keyword: Province

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

None. Acknowledgment of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics National Transportation Atlas Database would be appreciated in products derived from these data.

Data_Set_Credit:

The Canadian Province Boundary files were compiled from the Digital Chart of the World and the US Bureau of the Census TIGER/Line Files.

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Attributes for the Canadian Province Boundary database have been created using a Geographic Information System.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

All node-link and polygon topological relationships were created and verified using computer algorithms. Unique entity identifiers were verified by computer algorithm.

Completeness_Report:

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The positional accuracy of each data set varies as described. The border with the United States was compiled from TIGER/Line data with a corresponding positional accuracy of +/- 80m for the contiguous 48 States plus Washington D.C and Hawaii. TIGER/Line files for Puerto Rico and Alaska are at a scale of 1:125,000. The Canadian shorelines and internal province boundaries were derived from the Digital Chart of the World at a 1:1,000,000 scale. Thus, all internal political boundaries have a lower accuracy than do the US boundary definitions.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Bureau of the Census

Publication_Date: 1990

Title: TIGER/Line files

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: none

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Washington D.C.

Publisher: U.S. Bureau of the Census

Online_Linkage: www.census.gov

Source_Scale_Denominator: none

Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1990

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: TIGER

Source_Contribution:

Spatial information for political boundaries between the US and Canada

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

Publication_Date: 1993

Title: Digital Chart of the World

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: none

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Redlands, CA

Publisher:

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

Online_Linkage: www.esri.com

Source_Scale_Denominator: 1,000,000

Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1993

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DCW

Source_Contribution:

internal Canadian province boundaries

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Canadian spatial data extracted from the Digital Chart of the world, edgematched with the US boundaries from TIGER/Line files, and topologically integrated using ARC/INFO GIS.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: TIGER

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: DCW

Process_Date: 1995

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:

CANBDY

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method:

Vector

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: unknown

Longitude_Resolution: unknown

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927

Ellipsoid_Name:

Clarke 1866

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: CANBDY.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 Modification date for the

Attribute:

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

Attribute_Definition_Source:

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CNTRLONG

Attribute_Definition:

Centroid longitude value for the polygon expressed as a signed 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 a signed integer with six implied decimal places

Attribute_Definition_Source:

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DESCRIPT

Attribute_Definition: Province name

Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: STFIPS

Attribute_Definition:

In the United States, the Federal Information Processing Standard Code for a state. In this dataset, the field is blank.

Attribute_Definition_Source:

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: CANBDY.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 make up the linear feature

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 linear feature - the coordinate pairs then follow, having 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:

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Princeton University Library

Contact_Person: Tsering Wangyal Shawa

Contact_Position: GIS Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center, Guyot Hall

City: Princeton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08544

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609) 258-3247

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (609) 258-1274

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: shawatw@princeton.edu

Hours_of_Service: 8:45am-5:00pm

Resource_Description:

North American Transportation Atlas Data 1998

Distribution_Liability: None

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: shapefile

Fees:

none

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20000630

Metadata_Review_Date:

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Princeton University Library

Contact_Person: Tsering Wangyal Shawa

Contact_Position: GIS Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center, Guyot Hall

City: Princeton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08544

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (609) 258-3247

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (609) 258-1274

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: shawatw@princeton.edu

Hours_of_Service: 8:45am-5:00pm

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC CSDGM

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998