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Highway Urban and Urbanized Areas of Washington State



Identification_Information
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Identification Information

Section Index

    Citation:
      Citation Information:
        Originator: Cartography GIS, Geoservices, WSDOT
        Publication Date: 04/14/2004
        Title: Highways Urban and Urbanized Areas of Washington State
        Geospatial Data Presentation Form: map
        Publication Information:
          Publication Place: Olympia, Washington, USA
          Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
    Description:
      Abstract: Highway Urban Areas, as defined by the Federal Highway Administration, are depicted as polygons.
      Purpose:
        The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requires a review of highway urban and urbanized areas after each decennial US Census. The Census Bureau determines boundaries for urbanized areas with 50,000 or more people. Highway urbanized areas must include all areas defined as urbanized by the Census bureau but can and usually do include area beyond the Census Bureau defined boundaries. For urban areas of 5,000 through 49,999 people, FHWA uses city limits or Census Designated Place boundaries, with some adjustments, as the minimum area. This data set is used for identification of Urban Areas and as a reference layer for geographic information systems at WSDOT.
    Time Period of Content:
      Time Period Information:
        Single Date/Time:
          Calendar Date: 12/30/2003
          Time of Day: Unknown
      Currentness Reference: publication date
    Status:
      Progress: Complete
      Maintenance and Update Frequency: irregular
    Spatial Domain:
      Bounding Coordinates:
        West Bounding Coordinate: -125
        East Bounding Coordinate: -116.875
        North Bounding Coordinate: 49
        South Bounding Coordinate: 45.5
    Keywords:
      Theme:
        Theme Keyword Thesaurus: None
        Theme Keyword: FHWA
        Theme Keyword: Highway Urbanized Areas
        Theme Keyword: boundaries
        Theme Keyword: urban areas
        Theme Keyword: Highway Urban Areas
        Theme Keyword: urbanized areas
      Place:
        Place Keyword Thesaurus: None
        Place Keyword: Washington
        Place Keyword: WA
        Place Keyword: United States
        Place Keyword: USA
        Place Keyword: Pacific Northwest
    Access Constraints: none
    Use Constraints: none
    Point of Contact:
      Contact Information:
        Contact Person Primary:
          Contact Person: Ron Cihon
          Contact Organization: Geographic Services, Washington State Department of Transportation
        Contact Position: GIS/Cartography Supervisor
        Contact Address:
          Address Type: physical address
          Address: 1655 S. 2nd Avenue
          City: Tumwater
          State or Province: WA
          Postal Code: 98512
          Country: USA
        Contact Address:
          Address Type: mailing address
          Address:
            Mail Stop: 7384
            PO Box 47384
          City: Olympia
          State or Province: WA
          Postal Code: 98504-7384
          Country: USA
        Contact Voice Telephone: 360-709-5510
        Contact Facsimile Telephone: 360-709-5599
        Contact Electronic Mail Address: cihonr@wsdot.wa.gov
    Browse Graphic:
      Browse Graphic File Name: urbanareajpg.htm
      Browse Graphic File Description:
        The graphic represents the data as projected on the Washington State Plane Coordinate System, South Zone.
      Browse Graphic File Type: JPEG
    Data Set Credit: Mark Bozanich, Washington State Department of Transportation
    Native Data Set Environment: Microstation J DGN file, ESRI shape file
    Cross Reference:
      Citation Information:
        Originator: GIS/Cartography Section, Washington State Department of Transportation
        Publication Date: 9/10/2003
        Title: City Limits of Washington State, May 2002
        Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
        Publication Information:
          Publication Place: Olympia, Washington, USA
          Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation

Data Quality Information

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    Attribute Accuracy:
      Attribute Accuracy Report: Highway Urban and Urbanized Area names are complete for 2003.
    Logical Consistency Report: Data has clean polygon topology.
    Completeness Report: Entities and attributes are complete for 2000 census data.
    Positional Accuracy:
      Horizontal Positional Accuracy:
        Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report: Positional accuracy has not been determined.
    Lineage:
      Source Information:
        Source Citation:
          Citation Information:
            Originator: Cartography Section, Washington State Department of Transportation
            Publication Date: Unpublished Material
            Title: uaballft.dgn
            Geospatial Data Presentation Form: map
        Source Scale Denominator: 24000
        Type of Source Media: online
        Source Time Period of Content:
          Time Period Information:
            Single Date/Time:
              Calendar Date: 3/1997
              Time of Day: Unknown
          Source Currentness Reference: ground condition
        Source Citation Abbreviation: uaballft.dgn
        Source Contribution: The graphics depict the Highway Urban Areas and the names of the Highway Urban Areas from the 1990 census. This was the basis to start the new compilation of boundaries.
      Source Information:
        Source Citation:
          Citation Information:
            Originator: GIS/Cartography Section, Washington State Department of Transportation
            Publication Date: 9/10/2003
            Title: City Limits of Washington State, May 2002
            Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
            Publication Information:
              Publication Place: Olympia, Washington, USA
              Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation
        Source Scale Denominator: 24000
        Type of Source Media: online
        Source Time Period of Content:
          Time Period Information:
            Single Date/Time:
              Calendar Date: 5/31/2002
              Time of Day: Unknown
          Source Currentness Reference: ground condition
        Source Citation Abbreviation: City Limits
      Source Information:
        Source Citation:
          Citation Information:
            Originator: Cartography Section, Washington State Department of Transportation
            Publication Date: Unpublished Material
            Publication Time: Unknown
            Title: Highway Urban Area Boundaries-uadraft.dgn
            Other Citation Details: This dataset is the working set to create the urban area boundaries. The graphics depicting the Highway Urban/Urbanized area boundaries within the state of Washington.
        Source Scale Denominator: 24000
        Type of Source Media: online
        Source Time Period of Content:
          Time Period Information:
            Single Date/Time:
              Calendar Date: 12/2003
              Time of Day: Unknown
          Source Currentness Reference: ground condition
        Source Citation Abbreviation: uadraft.dgn
      Process Step:
        Process Description:
          The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requires a review of highway urban and urbanized areas after each decennial US Census. A team was assembled to review the highway urban and urbanized boundaries based on the results of Census 2000. This team included members from WSDOT, the County Road Administration Board (CRAB), the Transportation Improvement Board (TIB), and FHWA. The team held workshops around the state in Fall 2002. County, city, metropolitan planning organization (MPO), and WSDOT region staff were invited to these meetings. Draft maps were distributed to the appropriate local governments both at these meetings and by mail.
          During the first half of 2003, local agencies submitted maps and other documents to the boundary review team showing how the local agencies wanted the urban and urbanized area boundaries to be adjusted. The MPOs were involved in the review process in urbanized areas. The review team met to review the maps. Those that met the guidelines were approved. Those that did not were sent back to the local agencies with suggested changes. In some cases, the review team met with local agencies to come up with boundaries acceptable to the local agencies and the review team.

          Starting in June 2003, FHWA gave final approval to the urban and urbanized area boundaries that it found acceptable. Boundaries for the remaining urban and urbanized areas were approved on September 4, 2003. One set of signed maps are on file at the FHWA Washington Division Office in Olympia. The other set is on file at the WSDOT Cartography/GIS Section in Tumwater.
        Process Contact:
          Contact Information:
            Contact Person Primary:
              Contact Person: Mark Bozanich
              Contact Organization: Geographic Services, Washington State Department of Transportation
            Contact Position: Cartographer
            Contact Address:
              Address Type: physical address
              Address: 1655 S 2nd Avenue
              City: Tumwater
              State or Province: WA
              Postal Code: 98512
              Country: USA
            Contact Address:
              Address Type: mailing address
              Address:
                Mail Stop: 7384
                PO Box 47384
              City: Olympia
              State or Province: WA
              Postal Code: 98504-7384
              Country: USA
            Contact Voice Telephone: 360-709-5520
            Contact Facsimile Telephone: 360-709-5599
            Contact Electronic Mail Address: BozaniM@wsdot.wa.gov
      Process Step:
        Process Description:
          The Microstation format DGN file was converted to an ArcInfo coverage that contains a polygon and an annotation layer using the Arc command 'IGDSARC'. Text attributes were transferred from the translation program's 'ACODE' table to the annotation attribute table using Arc command 'JOINITEM'. Extraneous IGDS items were deleted from the resulting table with the ARC command 'DROPITEM'. Polygon topology and area centroids were created by applying ArcEdit's 'BUILD' command to the polygon coverage. The ARC command 'IDENTIFY' was then employed to associate polygon centroid points with annotation label points. 'JOINITEM' was used to transfer annotation text names (the IGDS-TEXT field) to the polygon attribute table. Extraneous fields were deleted with 'DROPITEM' and IGDS-TEXT was renamed to NAME. The coverage was then transformed to geographic coordinates with the ARC command 'PROJECTDEFINE' and 'PROJECT'.
        Process Date: 20040110
        Process Contact:
          Contact Information:
            Contact Person Primary:
              Contact Person: Heather Spates
              Contact Organization: GIS/Cartography Section, Washington State Department of Transportation
            Contact Position: Cartographer
            Contact Address:
              Address Type: mailing address
              Address: PO Box 47384
              City: Olympia
              State or Province: WA
              Postal Code: 98504-7384
              Country: USA
            Contact Address:
              Address Type: physical address
              Address: 1655 South Second Avenue
              City: Tumwater
              State or Province: WA
              Postal Code: 98512
              Country: USA
            Contact Voice Telephone: 360-709-5521
            Contact Facsimile Telephone: 360-709-5599
            Contact Electronic Mail Address: Spatesh@wsdot.wa.gov
            Hours of Service: 0800 to 1530 Pacific Time, M-F
            Contact Instructions: Contact by e-mail is prefered.
    Cloud Cover: 0

Spatial Data Organization Information

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    Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector

Spatial Reference Information

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    Horizontal Coordinate System Definition:
      Geographic:
        Latitude Resolution: 0
        Longitude Resolution: 0
        Geographic Coordinate Units: Decimal degrees
      Geodetic Model:
        Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1983 HARN
        Ellipsoid Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
        Semi-major Axis: 6378137
        Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257

Entity and Attribute Information

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    Detailed Description:
      Entity Type:
        Entity Type Label: urbanarea.shp
        Entity Type Definition: ESRI polygon shapefile. Census Urban and Urbanized Area, based on boundaries approved by responsible local officials and FHWA.
        Entity Type Definition Source: ESRI
      Attribute:
        Attribute Label: CLASSIFICA
        Attribute Definition: Classification type based on amount of population.
        Attribute Definition Source: FHWA
        Attribute Domain Values:
          Unrepresentable Domain: Urban: Population of 5,000-49,999 people inside the polygon boundary.
          Unrepresentable Domain: Urbanized: Population of 50,000 or more people inside the polygon boundary.
        Ending Date of Attribute Values: 20030904
      Attribute:
        Attribute Label: FID
        Attribute Definition: Numeric increasing number given by computer program to index files.
        Attribute Definition Source: ESRI
      Attribute:
        Attribute Label: NAME
        Attribute Definition: Name of Highway Urban Area
        Attribute Definition Source: Washington State Department of Transportation
        Attribute Domain Values:
          Unrepresentable Domain: English words and phrases approved as a name by the Secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation.
      Attribute:
        Attribute Label: SHAPE
        Attribute Definition: Type of feature
        Attribute Definition Source: ESRI
        Attribute Domain Values:
          Codeset Domain:
            Codeset Name: Polygon
            Codeset Source: ESRI
    Overview Description:
      Entity and Attribute Overview:
        Each Urban Area is one polygon, assigned the name used for reference by the Washington State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.

Distribution Information

Section Index

    Distributor:
      Contact Information:
        Contact Organization Primary:
          Contact Organization: Washington State Department of Transportation
          Contact Person: Michelle Blake
        Contact Position: GIS Data Administrator
        Contact Address:
          Address Type: mailing address
          Address: PO Box 47430
          City: Olympia
          State or Province: WA
          Postal Code: 98504-7430
          Country: USA
        Contact Address:
          Address Type: physical address
          Address: 809 Legion Way SE
          City: Olympia
          State or Province: WA
          Postal Code: 98501
          Country: USA
        Contact Voice Telephone: 360-705-7797
        Contact Facsimile Telephone: 360-705-6817
        Contact Electronic Mail Address: blakem@wsdot.wa.gov
        Contact Instructions: Call, email or write with requests for geo-spatial data sets.
    Resource Description: \gisosc\geodata\maps\24k\dot_cartog\urbanarea\urbanarea
    Distribution Liability:
      The Washington State Department of Transportation shall not be liable for any activity involving these data with regard to lost profits or savings or any other consequential damages; or the fitness for use of the data for a particular purpose; or the installation of the data, its use, or the results obtained.
    Standard Order Process:
      Digital Form:
        Digital Transfer Information:
          Format Specification: Various formats are used: ESRI coverages and shapefiles, and data tables for placement as ArcView "events."
          Format Information Content:
            The standard distribution compact disc contains all geospatial data sets created by the Washington State Dept. of Transportation. Refer to the included Geodata.txt text file for a brief description of the directory structure. Data formats vary--most data are stored as ESRI shape files, but some data models require coverages. There are also dbf-format tables of data located by geographic coordinates or State Route Accumulated Route Mileage.
        Digital Transfer Option:
          Offline Option:
            Offline Media: CD-ROM
      Fees: none
      Ordering Instructions: Call, email or write the Distributor with requests for geo-spatial data sets.
      Turnaround: Generally, the standard compact disc containing all distributed data can be sent within one week of receiving a data request.
    Standard Order Process:
      Digital Form:
        Digital Transfer Information:
          Format Name: self-extracting zip file
          Format Version Number: 6.3 SR-1 (926) 32-bit
          Format Specification: WinZip
          Format Information Content:
            Depends on the data set. Arc/Info coverage or shape file; metadata report in html and text files; and, in some cases, a data dictionary text file. Some data sets in the standard distribution are tabular data for placement as ArcView "events."
          File Decompression Technique: Run the "exe" file under Windows NT.
        Digital Transfer Option:
          Online Option:
            Access Instructions: Use anonymous FTP login or web browser download on the URL specified under Network Address.
            Online Computer and Operating System: Unix
      Fees: none
      Ordering Instructions: Download individual data sets from ftp://ftp.wsdot.wa.gov/gis/GeoDataDistribution
    Standard Order Process:
      Non-digital Form: The Cartography/GIS Section can plot maps of most geospatial data sets.
      Fees: depend on plotting costs.
      Ordering Instructions: Contact the Point of Contact listed under the Identification Section to determine the availability of this data set in a non-digital representation.
    Available Time Period:
      Time Period Information:
        Single Date/Time:
          Calendar Date: Unknown
          Time of Day: Unknown

Metadata Reference Information

Section Index

    Metadata Date: 4/14/2004
    Metadata Review Date:
    Metadata Future Review Date:
    Metadata Contact:
      Contact Information:
        Contact Person Primary:
          Contact Person: Heather Spates
          Contact Organization: GIS/Cartography Section, Washington State Department of Transportation
        Contact Position: Cartographer
        Contact Address:
          Address Type: mailing address
          Address: PO Box 47384
          City: Olympia
          State or Province: WA
          Postal Code: 98504-7384
          Country: USA
        Contact Address:
          Address Type: physical address
          Address: 1655 South Second Avenue
          City: Tumwater
          State or Province: WA
          Postal Code: 98512
          Country: USA
        Contact Voice Telephone: 360-709-5521
        Contact Facsimile Telephone: 360-709-5599
        Contact Electronic Mail Address: Spatesh@wsdot.wa.gov
        Hours of Service: 0800 to 1530 Pacific Time, M-F
        Contact Instructions: Contact by e-mail is prefered.
    Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
    Metadata Standard Version: June 1998
    Metadata Time Convention: local time
    Metadata Access Constraints: none
    Metadata Use Constraints: none

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