USGS GNIS extract processed by California Department of Fish and Game 200601 vector digital data Draft U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) vector digital data http://geonames.usgs.gov calgeonames2006\\W0A5ITCG1S811\D$\Dat\ACGN\CA_GNIS_2006\cagnis2006working\calgeonames2006.shp This is a dataset of geographic names (place names) prepared from a California statewide extract of the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), provided by USGS GNIS staff, dated January 2006 upon request by the California Resources Agency's California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names (CACGN). Modifications and corrections were prepared by the California Department of Fish and Game GIS Service Center, Sacramento. Attributes include unique identifiers, feature names (and proper formatting thereof), feature types (class), and geographic coordinates (decimal degrees, NAD 83). Separate data tables account for variant names and known (but not a complete account of) errors in the dataset. General reference, cartography, geospatial applications development California Department of Fish and Game GIS Service Center, Sacramento USGS GNIS Extract for California Sources: CA_deci.txt + CA_coords.txt + CA_vars.txt; GNIS extract of January 2006; transmitted 2006-01-11; From rworcest@usgs.gov to pveisze@dfg.ca.gov. Derivative Shapefile: "calgeonames2006.shp" 1. Parsed CA_deci.txt and generated point shapefile from decimal degree coordinates in NAD 83. 2. Excluded secondary coordinates of large-extent features such as "Pacific Ocean" (Feature_ID 247074) and "Mojave Desert" (246062) beyond approximately 50 miles of the California border. 3. Excluded database records for which there were no numeric coordinates. 4. Excluded DFG-maintained records for caves in California (83 total). Contact DFG for details. 5. Excluded USGS "Cell Names" and "Cell IDs" from names records to focus strictly on the points representing geographic features. Known errors exist in map cell-assignments in names records. See separate table "cagnis_cellshift_2005_2006b.dbf". 6. Excluded County Names focus strictly on the points representing geographic features. Known errors exist in county-assignments in names records. See separate table "calgeonames2006_2005_countydiff.dbf". 7. Feature type modifications: a. changed "Feature_Type" from "valley" to "undersea" for Feature_ID 1652880 "Carmel Canyon"; Sequence 1 and 2 b. changed "Feature_Type" from "basin" to "undersea" for Feature_ID 1652882 "Catalina Basin" c. changed "valley" to "undersea" for "Monterey Canyon". 8. Appended a record to represent the mouth (primary coordinate) of the Colorado River (located in Mexico). 9. Projected event-theme shapefile from decimal degrees (NAD 83) to California Teale Albers NAD 83. 10. Corrections / Modifications Feature_ID; Name; Remarks: 276899; North West Seal Rock; added cross-reference to NOAA Nautical Charts 1662528; Little Black Rock; as above 1952038; Richardson Rock; as above 1664411; Waster Water Ponds 647 Dam; corrected county to Siskiyou 236553; Trinity Valley Elementary School; corrected coordinates to plot in Humboldt County, CA. 235955; Table Mountain; deleted erroneous Sequence 3 coordinates 233764; Deane Canal; deleted erroneous Sequence 2 coordinates 274613; Aspen Campground; could not locate correct coordinates - record unchanged 240803; Colorado River Tunnel; could not locate correct coordinates - record unchanged 1657246; Sonoma County; reversed Sequence 1 and 42 secondary coordinates - per rworcest@usgs.gov 1654975; Lake Tahoe; corrected and modified record for primary coordinate per rworcest@usgs.gov 1664623; Lake Tahoe Dam; corrected and modified record for primary coordinate per rworcest@usgs.gov 1654958; South Fork American River; corrected primary coordinates to plot in El Dorado County, CA 277301; San Diego County; deleted erroneous Sequence 4 coordinates that plotted in Orange County 1639198; Siskiyou National Forest; deleted erroneous Sequence 13 coordinates that plotted in Pacific Ocean 223255; Estero de Limantour (bay); corrected primary coordinates to plot in Marin County, CA 1660324; Bella Vista (populated place); corrected primary coordinates to plot in Kern County, CA 1654052; Los Angeles County Fire Department Heliport; corrected primary coordinates to plot in Los Angeles County, CA == end of list of corrections and modifications en 200601 200601 In work Irregular -124.594028 -113.437780 42.226267 32.400366 -380443.233765612723.465507-666032.060478539572.875004 State of California and vicinity California ISO 19115 Topic Categorylocationgeographic namesplace namesgeographic featuresnone California Department of Fish and Game GIS Service Center geodata@dfg.ca.gov pveisze@dfg.ca.gov U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) California extract provided by rworcest@usgs.gov to pveisze@dfg.ca.gov and wpatters@dfg.ca.gov on 2006.01.11 Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 National Geospatial Intelligence Agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/catalog/charts/vfr/vfrchart Shapefile See Supplemental Information The 2006 California extracts of the USGS GNIS exhibits consistency and accuracy. Improvement has been obtained over previous versions, including the addition of over 2600 records since 2000. A new "census" feature class has been added. U.S. Geological Survey http://www.geonames.usgs.gov 24000 online 200601 ground condition Custom GNIS Extract for the State of California and vicinity California Department of Fish and Game GIS Service Center, Sacramento USGS GNIS Extract for California Sources: CA_deci.txt + CA_coords.txt + CA_vars.txt; GNIS extract of January 2006; transmitted 2006-01-11; From rworcest@usgs.gov to pveisze@dfg.ca.gov. Derivative Shapefile: "calgeonames2006.shp" 1. Parsed CA_deci.txt and generated point shapefile from decimal degree coordinates in NAD 83. 2. Excluded secondary coordinates of large-extent features such as "Pacific Ocean" (Feature_ID 247074) and "Mojave Desert" (246062) beyond approximately 50 miles of the California border. 3. Excluded database records for which there were no numeric coordinates. 4. Excluded DFG-maintained records for caves in California (83 total). Contact DFG for details. 5. Excluded USGS "Cell Names" and "Cell IDs" from names records to focus strictly on the points representing geographic features. Known errors exist in map cell-assignments in names records. See separate table "cagnis_cellshift_2005_2006b.dbf". 6. Excluded County Names focus strictly on the points representing geographic features. Known errors exist in county-assignments in names records. See separate table "calgeonames2006_2005_countydiff.dbf". 7. Feature type modifications: a. changed "Feature_Type" from "valley" to "undersea" for Feature_ID 1652880 "Carmel Canyon"; Sequence 1 and 2 b. changed "Feature_Type" from "basin" to "undersea" for Feature_ID 1652882 "Catalina Basin" c. changed "valley" to "undersea" for "Monterey Canyon". 8. Appended a record to represent the mouth (primary coordinate) of the Colorado River (located in Mexico). 9. Projected event-theme shapefile from decimal degrees (NAD 83) to California Teale Albers NAD 83. 10. Corrections / Modifications Feature_ID; Name; Remarks: 276899; North West Seal Rock; added cross-reference to NOAA Nautical Charts 1662528; Little Black Rock; as above 1952038; Richardson Rock; as above 1664411; Waster Water Ponds 647 Dam; corrected county to Siskiyou 236553; Trinity Valley Elementary School; corrected coordinates to plot in Humboldt County, CA. 235955; Table Mountain; deleted erroneous Sequence 3 coordinates 233764; Deane Canal; deleted erroneous Sequence 2 coordinates 274613; Aspen Campground; could not locate correct coordinates - record unchanged 240803; Colorado River Tunnel; could not locate correct coordinates - record unchanged 1657246; Sonoma County; reversed Sequence 1 and 42 secondary coordinates - per rworcest@usgs.gov 1654975; Lake Tahoe; corrected and modified record for primary coordinate per rworcest@usgs.gov 1664623; Lake Tahoe Dam; corrected and modified record for primary coordinate per rworcest@usgs.gov 1654958; South Fork American River; corrected primary coordinates to plot in El Dorado County, CA 277301; San Diego County; deleted erroneous Sequence 4 coordinates that plotted in Orange County 1639198; Siskiyou National Forest; deleted erroneous Sequence 13 coordinates that plotted in Pacific Ocean 223255; Estero de Limantour (bay); corrected primary coordinates to plot in Marin County, CA 1660324; Bella Vista (populated place); corrected primary coordinates to plot in Kern County, CA 1654052; Los Angeles County Fire Department Heliport; corrected primary coordinates to plot in Los Angeles County, CA == end of list of corrections and modifications California Department of Fish and Gamepveisze@dfg.ca.gov Metadata imported.C:\DOCUME~1\pveisze\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml231.tmp2005071223130500Dataset copied.D:\Dat\ACGN\CA_GNIS_2005\Working_0711\calgeonames200504cacgn2005071301035600 Vector Entity point 141928 SimplePointFALSE141928TRUEFALSE coordinate pair 0.002048 0.002048 meters Albers Conical Equal Area34.00000040.500000-120.0000000.0000000.000000-4000000.000000 North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 GCS_North_American_1983NAD_1983_California_Teale_Albers calgeonames2006 point representation of geographic features GNIS Feature Class141928 FIDFIDOID400Internal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.ShapeShapeGeometry000Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features.RECNORECNONumber12Record Number; unique to this datasetCalifornia Department of Fish and GameFEATURE_IDFEATURE_IDNumber13Unique IdentifierGNISSEQUENCESEQUENCENumber9Sequence number of point representing featureGNISFEAT_NAMEFEAT_NAMEString85Name of feature as it appears in the GNISGNISFEAT_CLASSFEAT_CLASSString63Class (or Type) of FeatureGNISVARIANTSVARIANTSString21Number of Variant Names on record for the FeatureGNIS (see separate variant names table)LAT_NAD83LAT_NAD83Number3Latitude, North American Datum of 1983GNISLON_NAD83LON_NAD83Number197Longitude, North American Datum of 1983GNISPROPERNAMEPROPERNAMENumber197Feature name formatted for common useDFG Unique numeric identifiers, names of features, names of enclosing USGS 7.5-minute topographic maps, and decimal-degree geographic coordinates. Points representing named geographic features in the State of California and vicinity as of January, 2006. Downloadable Data 3.493 3.790 20060124 California Department of Fish and Game GIS Service Center REQUIRED: The mailing and/or physical address for the organization or individual. REQUIRED: The city of the address. REQUIRED: The state or province of the address. REQUIRED: The ZIP or other postal code of the address. geodata@dfg.ca.gov pveisze@dfg.ca.gov FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile enhttp://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.htmlESRI Metadata Profile 2005071301035600FALSE20060124134634002006012413480400{952E6E0C-2138-4A72-A538-49B355851DD5}Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722calgeonames2006-380443.233765612723.465507539572.875004-666032.0604781-124.636552-112.54205642.87687631.8265251ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset002file://\\W0A5ITCG1S811\D$\Dat\ACGN\CA_GNIS_2006\cagnis2006working\calgeonames2006.shpLocal Area Network3.790Shapefile14192820060124NAD_1983_California_Teale_Albers