US Army Corps of Engineers Ports

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: US Army Corps of Engineers Ports

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/nausa.html>

Description:

Abstract:

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Ports database is an extract from the National Waterway Network database consisting of 184 points coded as US Army Corps of Engineers ports.

Purpose:

The Ports database is a geographic database of the US Army Corps of Engineers Ports in and around the United States, for analytical studies of waterway performance, for compiling commodity flow statistics, and for mapping purposes.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: In work

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Continually

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -159.353104

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -64.732422

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 61.237782

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 17.752710

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: point

Theme_Keyword: transportation

Theme_Keyword: ports

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: US Territories

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

None. Acknowledgment of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data would be appreciated in products derived from these data.

Point_of_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 Geosptial Information Center

City: Princeton

State_or_Province: New Jersey

Postal_Code: 08544

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (609) 258-6804

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (609) 258-1274

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: shawatw@princeton.edu

Hours_of_Service: 8:45am--5:00pm

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Attribute accuracy is tested by manual comparison of the source with hard copy printouts and/or symbolized display of digital line graphs on an interactive computer graphic system; selected attributes that cannot be visually verified on plots or on screen, are interactively queried and verified on screen.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The accuracy of each point element is correlated to the data source used to derive that element. For example, links and nodes derived from 1:100,000 scale Digital Line Graphs are more accurate than links and nodes derived from 1:500,000 scale NOAA Navigational Charts. Elements with an "M" in the source field (indicating an unknown or missing source) are the least accurate.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research Vanderbilt University

Publication_Date: 1996

Title: National Waterway Network

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: none

Publisher: none

Type_of_Source_Media: stable-base material

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Source_Currentness_Reference: source date

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Extraction of the USACE identified port nodes from the National Waterway Network file.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: WATERWAY

Process_Date: 1997

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: PORT

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: various

Longitude_Resolution: various

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927

Ellipsoid_Name:

Clarke 1866

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: PORT.PNT

Entity_Type_Definition: Point Attribute Table

Entity_Type_Definition_Source:

Field  Field   Field Field  Beg End Field
Number Name    Type  Length Pos Pos Description
1     RECTYPE   C     1     1   1  Record Type: always  'P'
2     VERSION   C     2     2   3  File version number
3     REVISION  C     2     4   5  Record revision number
4     MODDATE   I     8     6  13  Record modification date
5     POINTID   I    10    14  23  Unique point
identification
6     FEATURID  C    10    24  33  Unique point identifier
USACE Port ID
7     LONGITUD  I    10    34  43  Longitude (6 implied
decimal places)
8     LATITUDE  I    10    44  53  Latitude (6 implied
decimal places)
9     DESCRIPT  C    35    54  88  Name of the port
location
10     STFIPS    C     2    89  90  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: P

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: POINTID

Attribute_Definition: Unique identifier for the point

Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FEATURID

Attribute_Definition: USACE Port Identification

Attribute_Definition_Source: USACE

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LONGITUD

Attribute_Definition:

The longitude of the node 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 expressed as a signed integer with six implied decimal places

Attribute_Definition_Source:

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DESCRIPT

Attribute_Definition: Name of the port location

Attribute_Definition_Source: USACE

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:

PORT.T01 PORT.DBF

Entity_Type_Definition: Point 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 'T'
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: 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:

Unique identifier for the port - USACE Port Code

Attribute_Definition_Source: USACE

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: PORT

Attribute_Definition: Port identification code

Attribute_Definition_Source: USACE

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: STATE

Attribute_Definition: Assigned

Attribute_Definition_Source: FIPS Pub 6-4

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Codeset_Domain:

Codeset_Name:

Federal Information Processing Standard

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: XX - Non US Area

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: NON_US

Attribute_Definition: Abbreviation for non US areas

Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value:

AC - Arctic Ocean AT - Atlantic Ocean BS - Bering Sea CB - Caribbean Sea CD - Canada GM - Gulf of Mexico PC - Pacific Ocean PM - Panama XX - Undefined Area

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: WHO_MOD

Attribute_Definition:

Composite code designating what organization modified the link to which this node is attached and how

Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value:

first character: V - Vanderbilt addition R - Oak Ridge addition J - guessed H - screen digitization from DLGs or TIGER Q - digitized from USGS quad maps A - digitized from NOAA charts second character: 0 original 1 94 May 2 94 June 3 94 July blank after July 1994 third character: R attributes modified by ORNL A attributes modified by Vanderbilt

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SRC

Attribute_Definition: Source of the node

Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value:

V1 - Digitized from NOAA Charts V2 - Digitized from 1:100K USGS Quads V3 - Imputed from ORNL port V4 - Imputed from Corps port V5 - Digitized from 1:100K DLGs V6 - Digitized from State or World Boundary V7 - Imputed from Corps Lock location O1 - Oak Ridge estimate C - Corps M - Missing / Unknown

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: POINTID

Attribute_Definition: Unique point identification code

Attribute_Definition_Source: Assigned

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