Railroads

Data format: ArcInfo Coverage

File or table name: rails

Coordinate system: Lambert Conformal Conic

Theme keywords: Foundational Elements, Transportation, Rail

Abstract: The Railroad coverage was created to represent railroads centerlines in Columbia County. The burden for determining 'fitness for use' rests entirely upon the requestor. Columbia County and its co-producers will not be liable in any way for accuracy of the data, and assume no responsibility whatsoever for direct, indirect, special, consequential, exemplary or other damages.

FGDC and ESRI Metadata:

Metadata elements shown with blue text are defined in the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Elements shown with green text are defined in the ESRI Profile of the CSDGM. Elements shown with a green asterisk (*) will be automatically updated by ArcCatalog. ArcCatalog adds hints indicating which FGDC elements are mandatory; these are shown with gray text.

Identification Information:


Citation:
Citation information:
Originators: Coulmbia County Land Information Department


Title:
Railroads
*File or table name: rails


Publication date: 1995
*Geospatial data presentation form: vector digital data


Description:
Abstract:
The Railroad coverage was created to represent railroads centerlines in Columbia County. The burden for determining 'fitness for use' rests entirely upon the requestor.  Columbia County and its co-producers will not be liable in any way for accuracy of the data, and assume no responsibility whatsoever for direct, indirect, special, consequential, exemplary or other damages.

Purpose:
Transportation data provides consultants, planners, resource managers and other county staff with information on the location of pavement centerlines and right-of-way lines within Columbia County.  The information contained in this coverage is one of Wisconsin Land Information Program's foundational elements and supports the county's goals and objectives relating to land information as well as the county's information technology vision, mission, goals, strategies and plan.

*Language of dataset: en


Time period of content:
Time period information:
Single date/time:
Calendar date: April 1995

Currentness reference:
publication date

Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Spatial domain:
Bounding coordinates:
*West bounding coordinate: -89.787464
*East bounding coordinate: -89.003980
*North bounding coordinate: 43.644221
*South bounding coordinate: 43.279508

Local bounding coordinates:
*Left bounding coordinate: 450958.718750
*Right bounding coordinate: 658364.937500
*Top bounding coordinate: 432266.468750
*Bottom bounding coordinate: 299565.281250

Keywords:
Theme:
Theme keywords: Foundational Elements, Transportation, Rail
Theme keyword thesaurus: Wisconsin Land Information Program Thesaurus

Place:
Place keywords: Wisconsin, Columbia County
Place keyword thesaurus: Counties and County Equivalents of the States of the United States and the District of Columbia (FIPS Publication 6-3)

Access constraints: Columbia County produced or co-produced digital geographic data sets are copyrighted original works. They are licensed for use, not sold. Columbia County and its co-producers reserve all rights of authorship granted under U.S. and International copyright laws and agreements. Reproduction or redistribution of licensed data sets or products derived therefrom outside of the Licensee's organization or entity, without the express, written consent of Columbia County through the Columbia County Land Information Department, is forbidden, except as follows. 1. Redistribution of licensed data sets to consultants working for the Licensee is permitted only for purposes related to Licensee's business. Such consultants many not further reproduce or redistribute said licensed data sets, and such copies must be returned to Licensee upon completion of the consultant's work. 2. Reproduction or redistribution of up to 6 hard copies derived from licensed data sets is permitted provided proper credits are printed on each copy. More than 6 copies may be redistributed for non-commercial purposes only (e.g. government agency publications or use by a non-profit organization).
Use constraints:
Columbia County and its co-producers will not be liable in any way for accuracy of the data, and assume no responsibility whatsoever for direct, indirect, special, consequential, exemplary or other damages.

Point of contact:
Contact information:
Contact person primary:
Contact person: Kristen Anderson
Contact organization: Columbia County Land Information Department
Contact position: GeoSpatial Coordinator, Deputy Director


Contact address:
Address type: mailing and physical address
Address:
PO Box 177
Address:
400 DeWitt Street
City: Portage
State or province: WI
Postal code: 53901
Country: USA

Contact voice telephone: 608-742-9882
Contact facsimile telephone: 608-742-9806


Contact electronic mail address: kristen.anderson@co.columbia.wi.us


Hours of service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday thru Friday CST



Data set credit:
Columbia County Land Information Department

*Native dataset format: ArcInfo Coverage
*Native data set environment:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800


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Data Quality Information:


Attribute accuracy:
Attribute accuracy report:
Attribute accuracy is tested by digital comparison of the source data with display of the digital data attributes and the 1995 Digital Orthophotos.  The Columbia County Land Information Office Geospatial Technologies Section checked 100% of the data for attribute accuracy.

Logical consistency report:
This data set is topological structured for arcs for the entire Columbia County area. The geographic data represented by this coverage is stored according to a vector based data type.  With a vector data structure, geographic entities are represented as point, lines, and areas depicted on a 2-dimensional surface.  Each point is identified by a single x-y location; lines are identified by a sequence of x-y coordinates.

Completeness report:
The features represented in this data set are, to the best knowledge of the Columbia County Land Information Office, representative of all administrative boundaries of this type represented in Columbia County.  Data is updated continually using documents recorded with the Columbia County Register of Deeds.

Positional accuracy:
Horizontal positional accuracy:
Horizontal positional accuracy report:
Accuracy of this digital data is dependent upon the scale, date, and origin of the source material used to create this geographic data set.

Lineage:
Source information:
Source citation:
Citation information:
Originators: Ayres Associates (Madison, Wisconsin)


Title:
Columbia County Digital Orthophotos


Publication date: 1995
Geospatial data presentation form: vector digital data


Source scale denominator: 1:19,992
Type of source media: computer program
Source contribution:
Feature Lines and Attribute Data

Source time period of content:
Source currentness reference:
publication date

Process step:
Process description:
Railroads centerlines in Columbia County were derived from the 1995 digital orthophotography project.  The location of tracks that have been removed were determined first from the Tax Parcel maps as maintained by the Land Information Department and then by other sources of public records such as certified surveys, plats, and other documents of legal records.  Location of non-existing tracks was then derived from the 1995 digital orthophotography were visible.

Process date: 1995


Process contact:
Contact information:
Contact person primary:
Contact person: Kristen Anderson
Contact organization: Columbia County Land Information Department
Contact position: GeoSpatial Coordinator, Deputy Director


Contact address:
Address type: mailing and physical address
Address:
PO Box 177
Address:
400 DeWitt Street
City: Portage
State or province: WI
Postal code: 53901
Country: USA

Contact voice telephone: 608-742-9882
Contact facsimile telephone: 608-742-9806


Contact electronic mail address: kristen.anderson@co.columbia.wi.us


Hours of service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday thru Friday CST



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Spatial Data Organization Information:


*Direct spatial Rreference method: Vector


Point and vector object information:
SDTS terms description:
*Name: point
*SDTS point and vector object type: Entity point
*Point and vector object count: 2

SDTS terms description:
*Name: arc
*SDTS point and vector object type: Complete chain
*Point and vector object count: 39

SDTS terms description:
*Name: tic
*SDTS point and vector object type: Point
*Point and vector object count: 4

ESRI terms description:
*Name: point
*ESRI feature type: Simple
*ESRI feature geometry: Point
*ESRI topology: FALSE
*ESRI feature count: 2
*Spatial index: FALSE
*Linear referencing: FALSE


ESRI terms description:
*Name: arc
*ESRI feature type: Simple
*ESRI feature geometry: Arc
*ESRI topology: FALSE
*ESRI feature count: 39
*Spatial index: FALSE
*Linear referencing: FALSE


ESRI terms description:
*Name: tic
*ESRI feature type: Simple
*ESRI feature geometry: Tic
*ESRI topology: FALSE
*ESRI feature count: 4
*Spatial index: FALSE
*Linear referencing: FALSE


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Spatial Reference Information:


Horizontal coordinate system definition:
Coordinate system name:
Projected coordinate system name: User Defined Lambert Conformal Conic
Geographic coordinate system name: Columbia County Coordinate System

Planar:
Map projection:
*Map projection name: Lambert Conformal Conic
Lambert conformal conic:
*Standard parallel: 43.333333
*Standard parallel: 43.591667
*Longitude of central meridian: -89.394444
*Latitude of projection origin: 42.458333
*False easting: 554999.999906
*False northing: 0.000000

Planar coordinate information:
*Planar coordinate encoding method: coordinate pair
Coordinate representation:
*Abscissa resolution: 0.000735
*Ordinate resolution: 0.000735
*Planar distance units: survey feet

Geodetic model:
Horizontal datum name: North American Datum of 1983 (1991)
Ellipsoid name: User Defined Spheroid
*Semi-major axis: 6378376.331000
*Denominator of flattening ratio: 298.268414

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Entity and Attribute Information:


Detailed description:
*Name: rails.aat


Entity type:
Entity type label: Arc Attributes
*Entity type type: Feature Class
*Entity type count: 39

Attribute:
*Attribute label: FID
*Attribute alias: FID
*Attribute definition:
Internal feature number.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: OID
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute precision: 0
*Attribute scale: 0


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: Shape
*Attribute alias: Shape
*Attribute definition:
Feature geometry.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Geometry
*Attribute width: 0
*Attribute precision: 0
*Attribute scale: 0


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Coordinates defining the features.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: FNODE#
*Attribute definition:
Internal node number for the beginning of an arc (from-node).
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Binary
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute output width: 5


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: TNODE#
*Attribute definition:
Internal node number for the end of an arc (to-node).
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Binary
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute output width: 5


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: LPOLY#
*Attribute definition:
Internal node number for the left polygon.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Binary
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute output width: 5


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: RPOLY#
*Attribute definition:
Internal node number for the right polygon.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Binary
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute output width: 5


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: LENGTH
*Attribute definition:
Length of feature in internal units.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Float
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute output width: 12
*Attribute number of decimals: 3


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: RAILS#
*Attribute definition:
Internal feature number.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Binary
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute output width: 5


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: RAILS-ID
*Attribute definition:
User-defined feature number.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Binary
*Attribute width: 4
*Attribute output width: 5


Attribute:
*Attribute label: EXISTING
Attribute definition:
Determination of track existance
Attribute definition source:
Columbia County Land Information Department

*Attribute type: Character
*Attribute width: 5
*Attribute output width: 5


Attribute domain values:
Enumerated domain:
Enumerated domain value: Y
Enumerated domain value definition:
Track does exist on ground (may or may not be in use)
Enumerated domain value definition source:
Columbia County Land Information Department

Enumerated domain:
Enumerated domain value: N
Enumerated domain value definition:
No, track is no longer existing
Enumerated domain value definition source:
Columbia County Land Information Department

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Distribution Information:


Distributor:
Contact information:
Contact person primary:
Contact person: Kristen Anderson
Contact organization: Columbia County Land Information Department
Contact position: GeoSpatial Coordinator, Deputy Director


Contact address:
Address type: mailing and physical address
Address:
PO Box 177
Address:
400 DeWitt Street
City: Portage
State or province: WI
Postal code: 53901
Country: USA

Contact voice telephone: 608-742-9882
Contact facsimile telephone: 608-742-9806


Contact electronic mail address: kristen.anderson@co.columbia.wi.us


Hours of service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday thru Friday CST



Resource description: Railroad Track Centerlines


Distribution liability:
The Columbia County Land Information Office and its Geospatial Technologies Section created this data for use.  Columbia County produced or co-produced digital geographic data sets are copyrighted original works.  They are licensed for use, not sold.  Columbia County and its co-producers reserve all rights of authorship granted under U.S. and International copyright laws and agreements.  Reproduction or redistribution of licensed data sets or products derived therefrom outside of the Licensee's organization or entity, without the express, written consent of Columbia County through the Columbia County Land Information Department, is forbidden, except as follows.  1.  Redistribution of licensed data sets to consultants working for the Licensee is permitted only for purposes related to Licensee's business.  Such consultants many not further reproduce or redistribute said licensed data sets, and such copies must be returned to Licensee upon completion of the consultant's work.  2.  Reproduction or redistribution of up to 6 hard copies derived from licensed data sets is permitted provided proper credits are printed on each copy.  More than 6 copies may be redistributed for non-commercial purposes only (e.g. government agency publications or use by a non-profit organization).  Columbia County and its co-producers will not be liable in any way for accuracy of the data, and assume no responsibility whatsoever for direct, indirect, special, consequential, exemplary or other damages.

Standard order process:
Digital form:
Digital transfer information:
Format name: ESRI Shapefile
File decompression technique: no compression applied
*Transfer size: 0.067
*Dataset size: 0.067

Digital transfer option:
Online option:
Access instructions:
Contact the Land Information Department regarding use of FTP Site.


Offline option:
Offline media: CD-ROM
Recording capacity:
Recording density: 700
Recording density Units: Megabytes
Recording format: Windows 2000

Offline option:
Offline media: DVD
Recording capacity:
Recording density: 4.6
Recording density Units: Gigabytes
Recording format: Windows 2000

Fees: Refer to the Columbia County Land Information Department website for further information. (www.co.columbia.wi.us)
Ordering instructions:
Refer to the Columbia County Land Information Department website for further information.  (www.co.columbia.wi.us)  Custom Orders and/or special requests will be billed out at a rate of $30.00 per half-hour, with a minimum billing of one-half hour.  Time will be billed in half-hour increment.
Turnaround: 1 day - 2 weeks minimum


Custom order process:
Refer to the Columbia County Land Information Department website for further information.  (www.co.columbia.wi.us)  Custom Orders and/or special requests will be billed out at a rate of $30.00 per half-hour, with a minimum billing of one-half hour.  Time will be billed in half-hour increment.


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Metadata Reference Information:


*Metadata date: 20040225


*Language of metadata: en


Metadata contact:
Contact information:
Contact person primary:
Contact person: Kristen Anderson
Contact organization: Columbia County Land Informaton Department
Contact position: GeoSpatial Coordinator, Deputy Director


Contact address:
Address type: mailing and physical address
Address:
PO Box 177
Address:
400 DeWitt Street
City: Portage
State or province: WI
Postal code: 53901
Country: USA

Contact voice telephone: 608-742-9882
Contact facsimile telephone: 608-742-9806


Contact electronic mail address: kristen.anderson@co.columbia.wi.us


Hours of service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday thru Friday CST



*Metadata standard name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
*Metadata standard version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
*Metadata time convention: local time


Metadata extensions:
*Online linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
*Profile name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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