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New York City Commuter Rail Lines, 2007
- 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
- CommunityCartography (Firm)
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Title
- New York City Commuter Rail Lines, 2007
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- Transportation Maps and Tables
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- New York City
- Publisher
- Halcrow Group Limited
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/halcrow_commuterline_nyc_2007.zip
- Abstract
- New York City Commuter Rail Lines is a line theme representing New York City Transit Commuter Rail Lines, including routes for Long Island and Metro North rail road systems. Attribute data includes the names of the lines, names of the railroads and type of train service. Raw data was acquired from files from the New York State Department of Transportation. Data is provided in the projection NAD83 to align with the NYCMap basemap. The realigned data has not been thoroughly checked for accuracy.
- Purpose
- The commuter rail files represent the location of the rail centerlines and stations as shown on 1:100,000 scale source materials.
- Supplemental Information
- Port Jervis and Pascack Valley Lines are included with the NJ Rail data files.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 2007
- Bounding Box
- West
- -73.993452
- East
- -71.929533
- North
- 41.824228
- South
- 40.571257
- ISO Topic Category
- Transportation
- Theme Keyword
- Commuter rail roads
- Rail lines
- Public transit
- LIRR
- Passenger trains
- Metro-North
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- New York City
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- Queens County (N.Y.)
- New York County (N.Y.)
- Nassau County (N.Y.)
- Essex County (N.Y.)
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- Westchester County (N.Y.)
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
- NYC
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- 2007
- 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
- CommunityCartography
- Delivery Point
- 1200 MacArthur Blvd
- City
- Mahwah
- State
- NJ
- Postal Code
- 07430
- Contact Telephone
- 1-877-MakeMap
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 201-529-5728
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- info@comcarto.com
- Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- 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
- 234
- 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
- Vertical Coordinate System Definition
- Altitude System Definition
- Altitude Resolution
- 0.000010
- Altitude Encoding Method
- Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- com_line
- Entity Type Definition
- Rail lines
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- CMMLINE_ID
- ID
- Definition Source
- DoT
- ID
- ID
- Definition Source
- DoT
- DIST
- length in miles
- Definition Source
- ComCarto
- RR
- rail road system
- Long Island
- Metro-North Commuter
- Definition Source
- DoT
- LINE
- line name
- Definition Source
- DoT
- ALT_LABEL
- alternate line name
- Definition Source
- DoT
- COUNTY
- county
- Definition Source
- ComCarto
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- GeoPackage
- Distributor
- Halcrow Group Limited
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20080109
- 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