Highway Urban and Urbanized Areas of Washington State
Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information
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
Section Index
Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector
Spatial Reference Information
Section Index
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
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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:
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
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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
