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Europe Railroads, 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
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- Originator
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Title
- Europe Railroads, 2008
- Edition
- 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ESRI Data Maps
- Issue Identification
- 2008 World, Europe, United States, Canada, and Mexico
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, California, USA
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/esri_2008_europe_rails.zip
- Abstract
- Europe Railroads is a polyline theme representing the railroads in Europe. Attribute information includes the length, type, tonnage, connection level, name and nation of the railroad line. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data Maps collection.
- Purpose
- Europe Railroads provides a base map layer of railroads for Europe.
- Supplemental Information
- Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:50,000.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2006
- Bounding Box
- West
- -9.863300
- East
- 65.096000
- North
- 69.722900
- South
- 36.123600
- Theme Keyword
- line
- railroads
- rail
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- ISO Topic Category
- transportation
- Place Keyword
- Europe (6255148)
- Europe
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2006
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For current Columbia affiliates only.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Annually
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- ESRI
- Delivery Point
- 380 New York Street
- City
- Redlands
- State
- California
- Postal Code
- 92373-8100
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 909-793-2853
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 909-793-5953
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- info@esri.com
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.4.1420
- Data Quality Information
- Logical Consistency Report
- The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format using either ESRI SDC Data Development Kit Professional 2 (DDKP2) or tools in ArcGIS. The SDC data set is then loaded into ArcSDE to verify and validate the geometry.
- Completeness Report
- After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- The positional accuracy is unknown.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- AND International Publishers N.V. (AND Products B.V.)
- Publication Date
- 2006
- Title
- AND Global Road Data
- Edition
- 2006H2-V1.0
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- AND Global Road Data
- Issue Identification
- 2006 H2-V1.0
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Publisher
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- Other Citation Details
- Level: Europe (Level 2)
- Online Linkage
- http://www.and.com
- Source Scale Denominator
- 250000
- Type of Source Media
- DVD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2006
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Attribute and geospatial data
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- String
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 179039
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257224
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- rails
- Entity Type Definition
- The lines represent the railroads of Europe.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- ESRI
- Attributes
- ObjectID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- LENGTH
- The length of the railroad in kilometers. (Calculated lengths for the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- TYPE
- The type of railroad.
- 9
- Train ferry (passenger and/or cargo).
- 30
- Railway (passenger and/or freight transport).
- 58
- Walking connection between railway stations.
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- LEVEL
- The connection level expresses the importance of roads and railroads. All railroads are connection level 10, except in some areas roads and railroads share the same ground and some railroads carry automobiles and therefore acquire the road's connection level.
- 1
- The railroad acquired the road's connection level of: important national roads in such a way that all capital, large, medium, and small cities are connected.
- 2
- The railroad acquired the road's connection level of: secondary roads in such a way that all capital, large, medium, and small cities, and towns are connected.
- 3
- The railroad acquired the road's connection level of: through roads in such a way that all capital, large, medium, and small cities, and towns and villages are connected.
- 4
- The railroad acquired the road's connection level of: local connector roads in such a way that all capital, large, medium, and small cities, and towns, villages, small villages, postal code areas, numbered town districts and town districts greater than 1,000 are connected.
- 5
- The railroad acquired the road's connection level of: all other roads.
- 10
- The railroad connection level (roads and railroads don't share the same ground).
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- NAME
- The name of the railroad. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- NATION
- The code for the country in which the railroad is located.
- 7
- Russian Federation
- 30
- Greece
- 31
- Netherlands
- 32
- Belgium
- 33
- France
- 34
- Spain
- 36
- Hungary
- 39
- Italy
- 40
- Romania
- 41
- Switzerland
- 43
- Austria
- 44
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- 45
- Denmark
- 46
- Sweden
- 47
- Norway
- 48
- Poland
- 49
- Germany
- 90
- Turkey
- 247
- Aland Islands
- 298
- Faeroe Islands
- 350
- Gibraltar
- 351
- Portugal
- 352
- Luxembourg
- 353
- Ireland
- 354
- Iceland
- 355
- Albania
- 356
- Malta
- 357
- Cyprus
- 358
- Finland
- 359
- Bulgaria
- 370
- Lithuania
- 371
- Latvia
- 372
- Estonia
- 373
- Republic of Moldova
- 374
- Armenia
- 375
- Belarus
- 376
- Andorra
- 377
- Monaco
- 378
- San Marino
- 380
- Ukraine
- 381
- Serbia and Montenegro
- 385
- Croatia
- 386
- Slovenia
- 387
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 389
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- 390
- Vatican
- 420
- Czech Republic
- 421
- Slovakia
- 423
- Liechtenstein
- 830
- Channel Islands
- 833
- Isle of Man
- 994
- Azerbaijan
- 995
- Georgia
- 0
- The railroad passes through two or more countries.
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- CNTRYNAME
- The name of the country in which the railroad is located. (Names for the features.)
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- TUNNEL
- The tunnel indicator.
- 0
- The railroad doesn't pass through a tunnel.
- 1
- The railroad passes through a tunnel.
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- FLOOR
- The railroad "floor" (level of fly-over). In other words, when roads/railroads cross over each other, 1 is the lowest road/railroad, 2 is the one above and so on.
- 0
- The railroad doesn't cross over or under any road/railroad.
- 1
- The lowest level road/railroad.
- 2
- The level above 1.
- 3
- The level above 2.
- 9
- unknown
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- TONNAGE
- The tonnage limit of the railroad in metric tons.
- -1
- Passengers only (ferries).
- 0
- Not available.
- Definition Source
- AND International Publishers N.V.
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- SDC
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090709
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212) 854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998