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2000 Coastline

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What does this data set describe?
    Title: 2000 Coastline_region
    Abstract:
    Digital outline of coast of PEI taken from 2000 orthophotos

     

  1. How should this data set be cited?

     

    Glen, Bill, 2001-06-12, 2000 Coastline_region.

    Online Links:

    • \2000 Coastline_region.shp

     

     

  2. What geographic area does the data set cover?

     

    West_Bounding_Coordinate: 65
    East_Bounding_Coordinate: 61
    North_Bounding_Coordinate: 47
    South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41

     

  3. What does it look like?

     

     

  4. Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?

     

    Calendar_Date: 2000
    Currentness_Reference: publication date

     

  5. What is the general form of this data set?

     

    Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

     

  6. How does the data set represent geographic features?

     

    1. How are geographic features stored in the data set?

      This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):

      • G-polygon (3)

       

    2. What coordinate system is used to represent geographic features?

      The map projection used is Double Stereographic.

       

      Projection parameters:

      Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
      Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 0.000512
      Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 0.000512
      Planar coordinates are specified in meters

       

      The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1983 (CSRS).
      The ellipsoid used is Geodetic Reference System 80.
      The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
      The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257222.

       

     

  7. How does the data set describe geographic features?

     

    2000 Coastline_region

     

    FID
    Internal feature number. (Source: ESRI)

     

    Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

     

    Shape
    Feature geometry. (Source: ESRI)

     

    Coordinates defining the features.

     

     

 

  1. Who are the originators of the data set? (may include formal authors, digital compilers, and editors)

     

    • Bill Glen

     

  2. Who also contributed to the data set?

     

     

  3. To whom should users address questions about the data?

     

    Forestry & Land Resource Modeling, Dept. of Environment, Energy & Forestry
    c/o Bill Glen
    Manager
    PO Box 2000
    Charlottetown, PEI C1A 7N8
    Canada

    902-368-4700 (voice)
    902-368-4713 (FAX)
    wmglen@gov.pe.ca

Coastline of Prince Edward Island in 2000

  1. From what previous works were the data drawn?

     

    (source 1 of 1)
    Type_of_Source_Media: online

     

  2. How were the data generated, processed, and modified?

     

    (process 1 of 1)
    Derived from the 2000 Orthophotos

    Person who carried out this activity:

    Forestry & Land Resource Modeling, Dept. of Environment, Energy & Forestry
    c/o Bill Glen
    Manager
    PO Box 2000
    Charlottetown, PE C1A 7N8
    Canada

    (902)368-4700 (voice)
    (902)368-4713 (FAX)
    wmglen@gov.pe.ca

  3. What similar or related data should the user be aware of?

     

    Glen, Bill, 2001-06-12, 2000 Coastline_region.

     

  1. How well have the observations been checked?

     

     

  2. How accurate are the geographic locations?

     

     

  3. How accurate are the heights or depths?

     

     

  4. Where are the gaps in the data? What is missing?

     

     

  5. How consistent are the relationships among the observations, including topology?

     

Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?

 

Access_Constraints: See Digital Data Agreement
Use_Constraints: See Digital Data Agreement

 

  1. Who distributes the data set? (Distributor 1 of 1)

     

    Forestry & Land Resource Modeling, Dept. of Environment, Energy & Forestry
    c/o Bill Glen
    Manager
    PO Box 2000
    Charlottetown, PEI C1A 7N8
    Canada

    902-368-4700 (voice)
    902-368-4713 (FAX)
    wmglen@gov.pe.ca

  2. What's the catalog number I need to order this data set?

    Downloadable Data, CD-Rom

     

  3. What legal disclaimers am I supposed to read?

     

  4. How can I download or order the data?

     

    • Availability in digital form:

      Data format: ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo MID/MIF (version ESRI ArcGIS 8.3, MapInfo Pro 7.0) Size: 22.951
      Network links: FTP://
      Media you can order: Digital Download

       

       

    • Cost to order the data: Free to Download

       

     

Dates:
Last modified: 01-Mar-2005

 

Metadata author:
Forestry & Land Resource Modeling, Dept. of Environment, Energy & Forestry
c/o Bill Glen
Manager
PO Box 2000
Charlottetown, PEI C1A 7N8
Canada

902-368-4700 (voice)
902-368-4713 (FAX)
wmglen@gov.pe.ca

Metadata standard:
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC-STD-001-1998)

 

Metadata extensions used:
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Generated by mp version 2.7.33 on Tue Mar 01 09:22:11 2005

 

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