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Technical College Regions, Wisconsin 2019
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Technical College Regions, Wisconsin 2019
- Originator
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Creation Date
- 2018-02-23
- Publication Date
- 2018-02-23
- Revision Date
- 2018-02-23
- Edition
- 2019
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide
- Abstract
- 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 manualwhich was current as of December 2017 and last updated in November 2012.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. In 2019, three reorganizations required changes to the technical college boundaries when two pieces of territory were swapped between River Valley (Madison Area) and Dodgeville (Southwest Wisconsin) school districts and territory was transferred from Hudson school district (Wisconsin Indianhead) to River Falls school district (Chippewa Valley).
- 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 for 2019.]
- Supplemental Information
- Augmented original metadata with UW-Madison specific elements.
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2019-01-01T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.964328
- East
- -86.666097
- North
- 47.083273
- South
- 42.456907
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Theme Keyword
-
School districts
- 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
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
- 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
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Wisconsin Technical College System
- Delivery Point
- 4622 University Avenue PO Box 7874
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53707-7874
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-1207
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 9.7
Data Quality Information
- 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, school districts that were wholly within a WTC region received their corresponding region as an attribute. Using the county boundaries layer as a reference, school districts that were in two different regions were split along county lines using the Cut Polygons tool and the resulting polygons received their corresponding region as an attribute. After digitizing was complete and every polygon had a WTC region attribute, 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
- 2019-09-16T00:00:00
- 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
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_Technical_College_Regions_2019.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
- 17
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 86F7B0B2-7974-4735-92B0-B76C4DB45C77
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- 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
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2019-09-20
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8