Montana State Library
Metadata for Manually-defined regions for town population estimates
Identification Information:
- Citation:
- Originator: Montana State Library
- Title: Manually-defined regions for town population estimates
- Publication date: 11/01/2003
- Publication place: Helena, Montana
- Publisher: Montana State Library
- Online linkage:
http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/nris/shape/ct107.zip
- Abstract:
- Areas used to make population estimates of towns in the "towns" shapefile available at http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/nris/ct107.html
- Purpose: Additional information to accompany the towns data.
- Time period of content:
- Beginning date: 1990
- Ending date: 2000
- Access constraints: None
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Data Quality Information:
- Lineage:
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Spatial Data Organization Information:
- Point and vector object information:
- ESRI feature type: Polygon
- ESRI feature count: 10
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Spatial Reference Information:
- Horizontal coordinate system definition:
- Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Montana_FIPS_2500
- Grid coordinate system name: State Plane Coordinate System
- SPCS zone identifier: 2500
- Lambert conformal conic:
- Standard parallel: 45.000000
- Standard parallel: 49.000000
- Longitude of central meridian: -109.500000
- Latitude of projection origin: 44.250000
- False easting: 600000.000000
- False northing: 0.000000
- Planar distance units: meters
- 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
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Entity and Attribute Information:
- Entity type label: estborder.dbf
- Entity count: 10
- Entity type definition: Polygon Attribute Table
- Attribute label: FID
- Attribute definition: Internal feature number.
- Attribute domain:
- Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
- Attribute label: Shape
- Attribute definition: Feature geometry.
- Attribute domain: Coordinates defining the features.
- Attribute label: AREA
- Attribute definition: Area of polygon in square meters
- Attribute label: PERIMETER
- Attribute definition: Perimeter of polygon in meters
- Attribute label: BORDER_ID
- Attribute definition: ID number
- Attribute label: NAME
- Attribute definition: Name of town
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Distribution Information:
- Distributor:
- Montana State Library
- P.O. Box 201800
- Helena,
Montana59620-1800
- Telephone: (406) 444-5358
- Fax: (406) 444-0581
- E-Mail: gdaumiller@mt.gov
- Standard order process:
- Digital form:
- Format name: ESRI Shapefile
- Online option:
http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/nris/shape/ct107.zip- Offline option:
- Offline media: CD-ROM
- Recording format: ISO 9660
- Fees:
- For-profit organizations must pay our costs to reproduce the
data. Fees can be waived if doing Government work.
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Metadata Reference Information:
- Metadata date: 10/28/2003
- Metadata contact:
- Gerry Daumiller
- Montana State Library
- P.O. Box 201800
- Helena,
Montana59620-1800
- Telephone: (406) 444-5358
- Fax: (406) 444-0581
- E-Mail: gdaumiller@mt.gov
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