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New Jersey Rail Road Stations, 2005

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Identification Information
Citation
Originator
Community Cartography
Publication Date
2005
Title
New Jersey Rail Road Stations, 2005
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Online Linkage
https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/halcrow_nj_railstations_2005.zip
Abstract
NJ Rail Road Stations is a point theme representing public and private railroad stations in New Jersey. Attribute information includes the line and station name and the municipality the station is in. The station data is derived from files from the New Jersey Port Authority with a source scale of 1:100,000. These data were projected to allign with the CommunityCartography New York City datasets. PATH data (PANYNJ lines and stations) includes lines run by the Port Authority, and were digitized based on printed Port Authority documents.
Purpose
For research purposes only.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date
Time Instant
2005
Bounding Box
West
-75.211435
East
-73.976472
North
41.475128
South
39.359127
Theme Keyword
Rail roads
path
train stations
Amtrak
NJ Transit
MTA
NJ Commuter Rail
Air Train
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Theme Keyword
transportation
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Place Keyword
New Jersey
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Temporal Keyword
2005
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
May only be used by current Columbia University affiliates.
Use Restrictions
Educational non-commercial use only.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
None planned
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
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722
Cross-Reference
Originator
Community Cartography
Publication Date
2005
Title
NJ Rail Roads
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Online Linkage
https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/nj_rr.zip
Data Quality Information
Lineage
Contribution
Data is derived from files from the New Jersey Port Authority with a source scale of 1:100,000
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
Entity point
Point and Vector Object Count
168
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
0.000376
Ordinate Resolution
0.000376
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
njit_sta
Entity Type Definition
Railroad Stations
Entity Type Definition Source
CommunityCartography
Attributes
FID
Internal feature number (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated)
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
ID
number ID
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
ID2
long numeric ID
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
MUNICIPALI
municipality station is in
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
STATION
station name
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
ACTIVE_NJT
NJ Transit flag
1
Station used by New Jersey transit
0
Station not used by New Jersey transit
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
RAIL_LINE
rail line
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
longitude
longitude in decimal degrees
Definition Source
CommunityCartography
latitude
latitude in decimal degrees
Definition Source
ESRI
Distribution Information
Distributor
CommunityCartography
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20070412
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
eds@columbia.edu
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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