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New York City Congressional Districts 2008
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Publication Date
- July, 2008
- Title
- New York City Congressional Districts 2008
- Edition
- 08A
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- BYTES of the BIG APPLE
- Issue Identification
- 08A
- Publication Information
- Publisher
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Other Citation Details
- No major changes since previous version.
- Online Linkage
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/downloads/1d0d7542-8037-45d0-9374-e5217c9f1b4b/file/0a9043e4-9d10-43cc-aab1-e8d026df0ac8
- Abstract
- US House of Representatives Congressional District boundaries for the City of New York. These district boundaries represent the redistricting as of the US Census 2000.
- Purpose
- These districts were created by the Department of City Planning to aid city agencies in administering public services.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- April, 2008
- Bounding Box
- West
- -74.257233
- East
- -73.699214
- North
- 40.915808
- South
- 40.495972
- Theme Keyword
- House of Representatives
- Congressional Districts
- Administrative Districts
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- Place Keyword
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Staten Island
- Brooklyn
- Bronx
- Queens
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- The data are freely available to all New York City agencies and the public.
- Use Restrictions
- While all possible measures have been taken to ensure the accuracy of this data, the NYC Department of City Planning and the City of New York assume no responsibility for the accuracy of this data. All users should independently verify the accuracy of the data for their purposes.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Quarterly
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Delivery Point
- 22 Reade St, 5N
- City
- New York
- State
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10007
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 212.720.3505
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.0 (Build 6000) ; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770
- Data Quality Information
- Completeness Report
- These data are accurate as of the redistricting after the US Census 2000.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- The District files are created from the Department of City Planning LION file of the same release. The LION file is spatially aligned with NYCMap aerial photography.
- Lineage
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 13
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Planar
- Map Projection
- Map Projection Name
- Lambert Conformal Conic
- Lambert Conformal Conic
- Standard Parallel
- 40.666667
- Standard Parallel
- 41.033333
- Longitude of Central Meridian
- -74.000000
- Latitude of Projection Origin
- 40.166667
- False Easting
- 984250.000000
- False Northing
- 0.000000
- Planar Coordinate Information
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
- coordinate pair
- Coordinate Representation
- Abscissa Resolution
- 0.000000
- Ordinate Resolution
- 0.000000
- Planar Distance Units
- survey feet
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid Name
- Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257222
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- nycg
- Attributes
- CongDist
- US House of Representatives Congressional District Number for the State of New York.
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE_Leng
- SHAPE_Area
- Area of feature in internal units squared. (Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Distributor
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20081013
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Person Primary
- Contact Organization
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Contact Position
- BYTES of the BIG APPLE Coordinator
- Contact Address
- Address
- 22 Reade St, 5N
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- New York
- Postal Code
- 10007
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 212.720.3505
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata Extensions
- Online Linkage
- http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name
- ESRI Metadata Profile