Endangered Species Recovery Program
Geospatial Metadata

Recovery Plan Geographic Place Names

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Metadata:


Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Endangered Species Recovery Program
Publication_Date: 1999
Title: Recovery Plan Geographic Place Names
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fresno, CA, US
Publisher: Endangered Species Recovery Program
Other_Citation_Details:
U.S. FWS, 1998 Recovery Plan for Upland Species of the San Joaquin Valley, California.
Online_Linkage: <http://arnica.csustan.edu/esrpp>
Description:
Abstract:
Point coverage of geographic names used in the SJV Recovery Plan
Purpose:
To show place name locations on maps used in the SJV Recovery Plan
Supplemental_Information:
The original coverage was created from the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) tabular database. Additional place names were added as needed.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 1998
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.213
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -118.372
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.4086
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.8443
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Endangered Species
Theme_Keyword: Recovery Planning
Theme_Keyword: Conservation
Theme_Keyword: Place Names
Theme_Keyword: Geographic Names
Theme_Keyword: GNIS
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: California
Place_Keyword: San Joaquin Valley
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints:
None. Acknowledgement of the Endangered Species Recovery Program would be appreciated in products derived from this data.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program
Contact_Position: GIS Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address:
City: Fresno
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code:
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone:
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org
Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name: rp_placenames.jpg
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Graphic of theme rp_placenames
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
Data_Set_Credit: Scott E. Phillips

Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
For points from the USGS, refer to URL: <http://nsdi.usgs.gov/wais/maps/gnis.HTML#section2> For points added by, or edited by ESRP, the place names have been checked by ESRP and FWS staff for consistency with the text of the SJV Recovery Plan.
Logical_Consistency_Report: Point locations.
Completeness_Report:
Place names used were selected by ESRP and USFWS employees editing the SJV Recovery Plan. Place names were selected to highlight geographic locations mentioned in the text.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
For points from the USGS, refer to URL: <http://nsdi.usgs.gov/wais/maps/gnis.HTML#section2> For points added by ESRP, the horizontal positional accuracy should be within 25-250 meters depending on the aerial extent of the feature and the quality of the source map used.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 19810501
Title: Geographic Names Information System
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA, US
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: <http://nsdi.usgs.gov/wais/maps/gnis.HTML>
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: Unknown
Ending_Date: 1981
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: GNIS
Source_Contribution: Point location information and database fields.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
A copy of the text file containing the GNIS data for California was downloaded from the U.S. Geological Survey and imported into an INFO database. The INFO module of ARC/INFO was used to do the following: 1. Generate unique id numbers for each record., 2. Export the unique id and coordinate data for the records to a separate database., 3. Export the unique id and data fields for the records to a separate database., 4. The database of coordinate data was converted from Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds to Decimal degrees.,. The database of decimal degree data was exported to a text file with the unique ids to create an ARC/INFO generate file than could be used to convert the tabular coordinates to a point coverage. Once the point coverage was imported, point topology was build using the ARC/INFO BUILD command. The unique ids were used to join the database information to the point coverage. The point coverage was projected to UTM Zone 10 for use with other data.
Process_Date: 1998
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program
Contact_Position: GIS Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address:
City: Fresno
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code:
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone:
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org
Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Indirect_Spatial_Reference:
database fields for the name of the County and USGS Topographic Map
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Grid_Coordinate_System:
Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator
Universal_Transverse_Mercator:
UTM_Zone_Number: 10
Transverse_Mercator:
Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -123
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0
False_Easting: 500000
False_Northing: 0
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 1
Ordinate_Resolution: 1
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927
Ellipsoid_Name: Clark 1866
Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.98

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
Contains the attributes Name (name of feature), Type (type of feature as defined by the USGS GNIS), State (two letter state code), County (name of the county the point is in), and quadname (name of the USGS topographic map the point is in. Once the data had been edited, the attributes for State and County were assigned by a GIS identity operation using a coverage for 1990 County Boundaries obtained from the USGS National Atlas of the United States. See URL <http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html> for source data. The names of the counties were modified by removing the word " County" from the county name in order to emulate the orignal GNIS database field. The USGS topographic map names were assigned by an identity operation on a coverage of USGS 1:24,000 map boundaries obtained from the Gap Analysis Project of the U.C. Santa Barbara Biogeography Lab. See URL <http://www.biogeog.ucsb.edu> for more details on the data. The names of the topographic maps were modified from all upper case to proper case using the table program of ArcView GIS. This was done in order to emulate the topographic map names in the original GNIS data.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
US Geological Survey, GNIS Data Users Guide. URL: <http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/ti/GNIS/gnis_users_guide_toc.html>

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program
Contact_Position: GIS Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address:
City: Fresno
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code:
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone:
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org
Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail
Resource_Description: Arc Export file of coverage rp_placenames
Distribution_Liability:
No warranty, expressed or implied is made by the ESRP regarding the utility of the data, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. These data are geographic illustrations and do not represent legal boundaries.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: ARCE
Format_Version_Number: 7.2.1
Format_Specification: no compression
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name: <http://www.esrp.org/gis/>
Access_Instructions:
Large files may be GNU Zip compressed. Tools for decompression can be obtained from URL: <http://www.gzip.org/>
Online_Computer_and_Operating_System: Generic PC with Linux i386 2.2.5
Fees: Data may be accessed online without charge.
Technical_Prerequisites: computer with software to import ARC/INFO GIS data

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 19990702
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program
Contact_Position: GIS Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address:
City: Fresno
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code:
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone:
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org
Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Access_Constraints: none
Metadata_Use_Constraints: none

Generated by mp version 2.4.15 on Fri Jul 2 22:36:16 1999
Endangered Species Recovery Program
http://arnica.csustan.edu/esrpp