Recovery Plan Geographic Place Names

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: 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