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New York City Freight 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
- Community Cartography
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Title
- New York City Freight Rail Lines, 2007
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/halcrow_freightline_nyc_2007.zip
- Abstract
- NYC Freight Rail Lines is a line theme of major freight rail lines in New York City and Long Island. Attribute data include the name of the line, name of the railroad, use, owner/operator 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
- For research purposes only.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 2007
- Bounding Box
- West
- -74.255064
- East
- -71.951586
- North
- 41.111332
- South
- 40.494292
- ISO Topic Category
- transportation
- Theme Keyword
- Train
- Rail line
- Rail road
- Freight
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- New York City (5128581)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Nassau County (N.Y.)
- Essex County (N.Y.)
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2007
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For research purposes only.
- Use Restrictions
- Educational non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Unknown
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Community Cartography
- 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
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.780
- Cross-Reference
- Originator
- Community Cartography
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Title
- NYC Freight Rail Stations
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/fre_sta.zip
- Data Quality Information
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- The realigned data has not been thoroughly checked for accuracy.
- 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
- 1027
- 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
- 0.001024
- Ordinate Resolution
- 0.001024
- 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
- fre_line
- Entity Type Definition
- Freight rail line
- Entity Type Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- CATEGORY
- FEATURE
- SOURCE
- GRADESEP
- OWNER
- Code for Owner
- Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- OWNER_NAME
- Name of Owner
- Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- OPERATOR
- Name of the operator
- Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- TRK_RIGHT
- RR_TYPE
- Type of railroad
- Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- USE
- Use for the line
- Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- LINE_NAME
- Name of the rail line
- Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- LENGTH
- Length in miles
- Definition Source
- CommunityCartography
- Distribution Information
- Distributor
- CommunityCartography
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20070416
- 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
- 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