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Massachusetts 2000 Urban Boundaries

Entry ID: MassGIS_GISDATA.MA2000URBBND_POLY

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Summary

Abstract: In 2000, the Census Bureau used the Census Block Group data to designate the urban boundaries by following the Census Bureau maintained road segments called TIGER. The Office of Transportation Planning, in cooperation with the regional planning agencies, adjusted the boundaries to follow the Road Inventory street segments, municipal boundaries, railroads, or water bodies. This polygon datalayer represents the final version of the adjusted urban boundaries, which is used to determine the Road Inventory official roadway functional classification. The urban boundaries were digitized with the aid of 1:5000 road inventory, rail lines, streams, and MassGIS survey-level town boundaries. MassGIS stores this layer as MA2000URBBND_POLY.

Purpose: Planning, analysis and cartographic display.

CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: publication date

SPATIAL DATA ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Direct Spatial Reference: Vector
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: G-polygon
Point and Vector Object Count: 21

SPATIAL REFERENCE INFORMATION - PLANAR
Grid Coordinate System Name: State Plane Coordinate System 1983
SPCS Zone Identifier: 2001
Standard Parallel: 41.716667
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Related URL

Link: VIEW EXTENDED METADATA

Description: View Original Metadata document from the MassGIS website.

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: EOT Web documentation

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 42.89

S: 41.24

E: -69.91

W: -73.42

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Executive Office of Transportation, Office of Transportation Planning, Data Resources section

Dataset Title: Massachusetts 2000 Urban Boundaries

Dataset Release Date: 2000

Data Presentation Form: vector digital data

Online Resource: Server=sun420.env.state.ma.us; Service=esri_sde; User=gisdata; Vers...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2000-01-01

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MASSACHUSETTS

Data Resolution

Vertical Resolution: 1.000000

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > URBAN LANDS

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Access Constraints ACCESS CONSTRAINTS: None. These data are public records.

Use Constraints USE CONSTRAINTS: None. These data are public records.

Ancillary Keywords

Massachusetts

2000 Urban Boundaries

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Data Center

Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information

Data Center URL: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/massgis.htm
Dataset ID: Downloadable Data

Data Center Personnel
Name: MICHAEL TRUST Phone: (617) 626-1195 Fax: (617) 626-1249 Email: michael.trust at state.ma.us Contact Address: 251 Causeway Street Suite 500 City: Boston Province or State: MA Postal Code: 02114 Country: USA