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Technical College Regions, Wisconsin 2021
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Technical College Regions, Wisconsin 2021
- Originator
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Publication Date
- 2021-08-17
- Edition
- 2021
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide
- Abstract
- This data represents technical college regions for Wisconsin in 2021. [This dataset includes boundaries for the Wisconsin Technical College System regions. This layer was created using unified and secondary public school district boundaries for the state of Wisconsin. Authoritative information used to create this dataset came from the Wisconsin Technical College board policy manual which was current as of August 2021 and last updated in April 2020. Each year, there is a chance for reorganizations to take place that either transfer territory between school districts or consolidate/dissolve/create districts. These reorganizations go into effect on July 1st of each year. Changes in school district boundaries have the potential to affect technical college boundaries.]
- Purpose
- This data is intended for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [This polygon layer contains the regions of the Wisconsin Technical College System as of 2021.]
- Supplemental Information
- This is an archived copy of the data held at UW-Madison. For access to the most current data available, please visit: https://data-wi-dpi.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/0fdad1436fc04ebf85ba7839dad3ab79_0/about
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2021-08-12T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.964215
- East
- -86.709179
- North
- 47.083097
- South
- 42.457991
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- GNS
- Theme Keyword
-
Technical institutes
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- [The layer is intended for your reference use only. It contains the best information the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has to date, but no guarantee of accuracy is made. It should not be used for any land transactions, financial decisions, taxation, surveying, or other similar uses.]
- Legal Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Although this data is being distributed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- unknown
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster St.
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-3390
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 10.031
Data Quality Information
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Report
- Lineage
- Statement
- [This layer was produced using the unified and secondary public school district boundaries for the state of Wisconsin. The school district boundary datasets was derived from county data. For more information about the Wisconsin school district boundaries datasets, please refer to their metadata. There are 16 regions of the Wisconsin Technical College System. The territory within each region (or "district" as they are referred to by Wisconsin state statutes) is described in Policy Number 204 of the Wisconsin Technical College board policy manual. Each territory contains the whole of or parts of counties, municipalities, and public school districts. This polygon layer was built up from the statewide school district boundaries layer from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. A County Boundaries (2015) polygon layer for the state of Wisconsin distributed by the Arthur H. Robinson Map Library (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and originating from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was also used as a reference layer. To build up Wisconsin Technical College (WTC) regions layer, the statewide layers for unified school district boundaries and secondary school district boundaries were merged into one. A technical college region attribute field was added to the layer. Using the board policy manual as a reference, school districts that were in two different regions were split along county lines using the Split tool. After digitizing county boundaries into the school district layer was complete, a spatial join was used to add county information. Then, using Python code that took the school district and county fields as parameters, the technical college regions were assigned with the Calculate Field tool. The Dissolve tool was used on the layer. The layer was then checked for errors.]
- Process Step
- Description
- Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.
- Process Date
- 2021-08-17T00:00:00
- Source
- Title
- Wisconsin Technical College board policy manual
- Publication Date
- 2017-12-27
- Description
- [Policy manual from the Wisconsin Technical College System board which contains Section 204 describing the territory (counties and school districts) within each WTC region]
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Distributor
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_Technical_College_Regions_2021.zip
- Protocol
- WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
- Name
- GeoData@Wisconsin
- Function
- download
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- composite
- Vector Object Count
- 16
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 3844F20F-D55A-41EC-914E-61720BBC65C6
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Arthur H. Robinson Map Library
- Position Name
- Metadata Technician
- Delivery Point
- 550 N. Park Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53706
- Country
- US
- askmap@library.wisc.edu
- Phone
- (608) 262-1471
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2021-08-17
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8