mebuild

Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: TechniGraphics, Inc.
Publication Date: 20080219
Title: mebuild
Edition: 4th Quarter 2007
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Publication Information:

Publication Place: Augusta ME
Publisher: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)

Online Linkage: http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

Description:

Abstract:
This dataset includes buildings occupied by the headquarters of cabinet level state government executive departments, legislative offices buildings outside of the capitol building, offices and court rooms associated with the highest level of the judicial branch of the state government, and large multi-agency state office buildings. Because the research to create this data was primarily keyed off of the headquarters of cabinet level state government agencies, some state office buildings that don't house a headquarters for such an agency may have been excluded.
Intentionally excluded from this dataset are government run institutions (e.g. schools, colleges, prisons, and libraries). Also excluded are state capitol buildings.

State owned or leased buildings whose primary purpose is not to house state offices have also been intentionally excluded from this dataset. Examples of these include "Salt Domes", "Park Shelters", and "Highway Garages".

Purpose:
Homeland Security
Use Cases: Use cases describe how the data may be used and help to define and clarify requirements.

1) There has been a natural or manmade disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake. An assessment of what State property may be affected, and what State services may be impacted needs to be made.

2) There is a predicted natural disaster, such as a hurricane. An assessment of what State property, personnel and services might be in the disaster's predicted footprint or path needs to be made. Preparations need to be made to evacuate personnel, secure property, and arrange for alternate methods of delivering the critical services that may be affected.

3) There has been a terrorist threat against State property and/or personnel. Steps need to be taken to identify what is being threatened, counter the threat, and protect threatened personnel and property. Additional property may be impacted due to its proximity to the threatened property, or the threat may contain only a general spatial reference, and the spatial component of this dataset may need to be used to identify the threatened property.

Supplemental Information:
All entities that have been verified to have no building name, have had their [NAME] attribute set to "NO NAME". If the record in the original source data had no building name and TGS was unable to verify the building name, the [NAME] attribute was set to "UNKNOWN".
All phone numbers in this dataset have been verified by TGS to be the main phone for the building. If the building was verified not to have a main phone number, the [AREA] and [PHONE] fields have been left blank.

All entities located on military bases have been removed from this dataset.

The text fields in this dataset have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results.

All diacritics (e.g., the German umlaut or the Spanish tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database systems that may not support diacritics.

The currentness of this dataset is indicated by the [CONTDATE] attribute. Based upon this attribute, the oldest record dates from 2007/11/29 and the newest record dates from 2007/11/29.

Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 11/29/2007
Beginning Time: Unknown
Ending Date: 11/29/2007
Ending Time: Unknown

Currentness Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: Unknown

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

West Bounding Coordinate: -70.328445
East Bounding Coordinate: -67.899252
North Bounding Coordinate: 46.949682
South Bounding Coordinate: 43.659324

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme Keyword Thesaurus: LCSH - Library of Congress subject headings (Washington, DC: LC, Cataloging Distribution Service) http://authorities.loc.gov/
Theme Keyword: Buildings

Theme:

Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme Keyword: structure

Place:

Place Keyword Thesaurus: LCSH - Library of Congress subject headings (Washington, DC: LC, Cataloging Distribution Service) http://authorities.loc.gov/
Place Keyword: Maine

Access Constraints: None
Use Constraints: None
Point of Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Person Primary:

Contact Person: Mike Thompson
Contact Organization: TechniGraphics, Inc.

Contact Position: Director of Geospatial Datasets
Contact Address:

Address Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 2000 Noble Drive
City: Wooster
State or Province: OH
Postal Code: 44691
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 330-263-6222
Contact Facsimile Telephone: 330-263-6294
Contact Electronic Mail Address: mthompson@tgstech.com
Hours of Service: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday, Eastern Time

Security Information:

Security Classification System: DOD
Security Classification: Unclassified
Security Handling Description: Unclassified

Native Data Set Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.780

Attribute Accuracy:

Attribute Accuracy Report:
For entities that were contacted, the name, address, city, state, and five (5) digit zip codes were verified to be correct as of the date indicated by the [CONTDATE] attribute. The existence of the entity was also verified, as well as whether or not it met the criteria for inclusion in this dataset. Four (4) digit zip code extensions were derived from USPS (United States Postal Service) data and were not verified.
Please refer to the Entity and Attribute Overview for complete description.

Logical Consistency Report: See "Attribute_Accuracy_Report". Many of the checks described in that section check for both attribute accuracy and logical consistency.
Completeness Report:
This dataset includes buildings occupied by the headquarters of cabinet level state government executive departments, legislative offices buildings outside of the capitol building, offices and court rooms associated with the highest level of the judicial branch of the state government, and large multi-agency state office buildings. Because the research to create this data was primarily keyed off of the headquarters of cabinet level state government agencies, some state office buildings that don't house a headquarters for such an agency may have been excluded.
Initially, excluded from this dataset are government run institutions (e.g. schools, colleges, prisons, and libraries). Also excluded are state capitol buildings.

State owned or leased buildings whose primary purpose is not to house state offices have also been intentionally excluded from this dataset. Examples of these include "Salt Domes", "Park Shelters", and "Highway Garages".

Positional Accuracy:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report:
The geographic location of contacted entities was verified to be correct relative to the street data and version indicated by the [ST_VENDOR] and [ST_VERSION] attributes. The horizontal accuracy is indicated by the [GEOPREC] attribute. A value of "BLOCKFACE" indicates the entity was geocoded on the correct block and correct side of the street. A value of "ONENTITY" indicates that the location is on the entity's facility, as determined by USGS DOQQ imagery, and is on the correct block and correct side of the street. Entities that are part of a larger institution (e.g., University Campus or Military Base) with "BLOCKFACE" precision may be located at the main entrance to the larger institution.
Lineage:

Source Information:

Source Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: State Partners and TGS research
Publication Date: 2007
Title: State Government Buildings
Edition: Unspecified
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Publication Information:

Publication Place: Augusta ME
Publisher: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)

Type of Source Media: Online
Source Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Single Date/Time:

Calendar Date: 2007
Time of Day: Unknown

Source Currentness Reference: publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation: State_Gov_Bldgs
Source Contribution: This was used as a source for State owned or leased buildings in the United States.

Source Information:

Source Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: NAVTEQ
Publication Date: 2006
Title: NAVSTREETS
Edition: 2006.3
Publication Information:

Publication Place: Augusta ME
Publisher: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)

Source Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Single Date/Time:

Calendar Date: 2006
Time of Day: Unknown

Source Currentness Reference: publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation: NAVTEQ_Streets_2006_Q4
Source Contribution: NAVTEQ streets were used as reference for automatic geocoding and for the manual geolocating of entities during the Q407 processing.

Process Step:

Process Description:
TGS 2007 Q4 Processing
1) Verified name, physical address, and phone numbers by contacting the entity or an authority responsible for the entity.

2) Determined or verified the geospatial location for the entity through contact with entity or authority responsible for entity. Entities were asked to describe their geospatial location relative to land marks visible in ortho imagery.

3) During PinPointing, TGS technicians looked for additional entitles to add to the dataset based upon the locations of the headquarters of cabinet level state agencies.

4) Every entity PinPointed during this update was reviewed by a TGS QC Technician. QC technicians are trained to look for inconsistencies within the data and between the data and reference sources, such as ortho imagery. Where inconsistencies exist, the TGS QC technician re-verified the information by contacting the entity.

5) All of the entities that were PinPointed during this update were examined as an aggregate (i.e., not every record was examined individually) by a TGS QC2 technician. The automated checks described above and in the Attribute_Accuracy_Report were used to find any inconsistencies that remained in the data. If necessary, information was re-verified.

6) County name and county FIPS codes were assigned through a spatial join.

7) Four (4) digit United States Postal Service (USPS) zip code extensions were assigned based upon the USPS Address Information System (AIS).

8) All text fields were set to all upper case.

9) Leading and trailing spaces were trimmed from all text fields.

10) Non printable and diacritic characters were removed from all text fields.

Source Used Citation Abbreviation: State_Gov_Bldgs
Source Used Citation Abbreviation: NAVTEQ_Streets_2006_Q4
Process Date: 20080219
Process Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Person Primary:

Contact Person: Nicole Hackworth
Contact Organization: TechniGraphics, Inc.

Contact Position: Project Manager
Contact Address:

Address Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 2000 Noble Drive
City: Wooster
State or Province: OH
Postal Code: 44691
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 330-263-6222
Contact Electronic Mail Address: nhackworth@tgstech.com
Hours of Service: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday, Eastern Time

Process Step:

Process Description: Metadata imported.

Cloud Cover: 0

Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector
Point and Vector Object Information:

SDTS Terms Description:

SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: Entity point
Point and Vector Object Count: 25

Horizontal Coordinate System Definition:

Planar:

Grid Coordinate System:

Grid Coordinate System Name: Universal Transverse Mercator 1983
Universal Transverse Mercator:

UTM Zone Number: 19
Transverse Mercator:

Scale Factor at Central Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude of Central Meridian: -69
Latitude of Projection Origin: 0
False Easting: 500000
False Northing: 0

Planar Coordinate Information:

Planar Coordinate Encoding Method: Coordinate Pair
Coordinate Representation:

Abscissa Resolution: 0.000512
Ordinate Resolution: 0.000512

Planar Distance Units: meters

Geodetic Model:

Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis: 6378137
Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257222

Vertical Coordinate System Definition:

Altitude System Definition:

Altitude Resolution: 1.000000
Altitude Encoding Method: Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Detailed Description:

Entity Type:

Entity Type Label: State Government Buildings in Maine
Entity Type Definition:
This dataset includes buildings occupied by the headquarters of cabinet level state government executive departments, legislative offices buildings outside of the capitol building, offices and court rooms associated with the highest level of the judicial branch of the state government, and large multi-agency state office buildings.
Entity Type Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ADDRESS
Attribute Definition:
Physical street address for entity. "PO Box", "General Delivery", "Rural Route", and "Highway Contract" addresses are not considered physical addresses and should not appear in this attribute. Some areas do not have regular city style addressing so entities in those areas may not have a street number. In such cases, the name of the road they are located on is listed in this attribute. Some rural areas may not have named roads. In these rare cases, this attribute will be blank.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ADDRESS2
Attribute Definition: Location within physical address, e.g., floor, suite, building.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: AGENCIES
Attribute Definition:
Indicates the agencies that are located in the building.
Some of the values in this attribute have not been verified by TGS.

Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: AGENCY_PH
Attribute Definition: Indicates if the twelve digit phone number of an agency within the building. This phone number will correspond with the agency found in the [AGENCIES] field.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Phone numbers formatted as nnn-nnn-nnnn. Only numeric digits are used.

Attribute:

Attribute Label: CITY
Attribute Definition:
The name of the city associated with the entity's physical address. For physical addresses that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) delivers to, this should be a "city" acceptable to the USPS as defined in their Address Information System (AIS). Sometimes the USPS does not deliver mail to a physical address but recognizes the location (i.e., they list the location as "undeliverable"). The cities associated with these locations are acceptable. In some cases, the USPS does not recognize individual physical addresses in a city, rather, they list the city as having "General Delivery". In these cases, the city and associated zip code are acceptable (the entity's [ADDRESS] attribute will contain a street address, not "general delivery"). The entity may not actually be located within the city limits of the "city" specified in its city field. Instead, it may actually be located within the city limits of another city. In some cases, the "city" that appears in this attribute may not even be a city in an administrative sense, but it is still an acceptable "city" to the USPS. An example of this is "Notre Dame, IN". There is no city in Indiana called "Notre Dame", but this is considered an acceptable city by the USPS for any delivery going to the University of Notre Dame which is actually located in the city of South Bend. "Notre Dame", like most USPS cities, is an easily recognized place, and it gives the user of the data a good general idea of where the entity is located (if the entity is located in a small municipality, the USPS "city" may be more recognizable than the name of the municipality), and it would be part of the address one would use to send a shipment to the entity's location. Using the USPS acceptable "city" also allows someone to do a logical consistency check between the zip code and the city by using the USPS AIS.
Sometimes an entity may report a city that is not accepted by the USPS, and although TGS has tried to replace those cities with an acceptable alter

Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: CONTDATE
Attribute Definition: Date entity was contacted by TGS.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Date

Attribute:

Attribute Label: CONTHOW
Attribute Definition: Method by which entity was contacted.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: PHONE
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Entity was contacted by phone.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: COUNTY
Attribute Definition: County name where entity is located.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Codeset Domain:

Codeset Name: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Codeset Source: US Department of the Interior - US Geologic Survey

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DIRECTIONS
Attribute Definition: Directions to entity location, or description of the entity's location.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: EMERGEXT
Attribute Definition: Telephone extension for emergency point of contact.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: EMERGPHONE
Attribute Definition: Ten (10) digit telephone number of emergency point of contact formatted as nnn-nnn-nnnn. All alphabetic characters have been translated to the corresponding numeric digit.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Phone numbers, including area code, formatted as nnn-nnn-nnnn. A list of valid area code and exchange combinations can be found at http://www.nanpa.com

Attribute:

Attribute Label: EMERGTITLE
Attribute Definition: Title of person or name of office for emergency point of contact.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: FEATTYPE
Attribute Definition: Geometry type of feature.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: POINT
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Feature is represented by point.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: FIPS
Attribute Definition:
Five (5) digit FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) Code for the County where entity is located. The first two (2) digits represent the state and the last three (3) digits identify the county within the state.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Codeset Domain:

Codeset Name: Federal Information Processing Standards Publications - Counties and Equivalent Entities of the U.S., Its Possessions, and Associated Areas
Codeset Source: National Institute of Standards (NIST) http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/co-codes/states.txt

Attribute:

Attribute Label: GEODATE
Attribute Definition: Date entity was geocoded by TGS.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Date

Attribute:

Attribute Label: GEOHOW
Attribute Definition: Method by which entity was geocoded.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: AUTO
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Entity was automatically geocoded.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: GEOLINKID
Attribute Definition: Link ID for the street segment to which the entity was geocoded. Refer to the [ST_VENDOR] and [ST_VERSION] attributes for the street vendor and version that was used to geocode the entity.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: GEOPREC
Attribute Definition: Geocoding precision.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: BLOCKFACE
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Entity is geocoded to correct block and correct side of street per street data indicated by [ST_VENDOR] and [ST_VERSION].
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ID
Attribute Definition: Unique identifier for feature.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MEGIS.mebuilds.AREA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: METLNKID
Attribute Definition: Link to Metadata.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: NAICSCODE
Attribute Definition:
NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) Code for entity. NAICS Codes (and NAICS Descriptions) have been assigned based upon the entity's primary function, regardless of if that is the function that qualified it to be included in this dataset.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Codeset Domain:

Codeset Name: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 2002)
Codeset Source: US Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

Attribute:

Attribute Label: NAICSDESCR
Attribute Definition:
NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) Description for entity. The "Index Entries" that appear on the NAICS webpage (http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html) are being used to populate this attribute as opposed to the "NAICS Title". While there is a one to one correspondence between NAICS Codes and "NAICS Titles", there is a one to many relationship between NAICS Codes and the "Index Entries". By using the "Index Entries", we have placed the entities that make up this layer into more specific categories; however, the user of this data should be aware that this was not the intended purpose of these "Index Entries". The "Index Entries" were intended as a way to search the NAICS database and as a way of enumerating ways in which establishments falling under the given NAICS Code may be named. Thus, there are often two or more "Index Entries" that are synonyms, for example: "Prisons" and "Penitentiaries". In cases like this, we have standardized on one "Index Entry".
NAICS Descriptions (and NAICS Codes) have been assigned based upon the entity's primary function, regardless of the function that qualified it to be included in this dataset.

Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: PUBLIC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, GOVERNMENT
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: PUBLIC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, GOVERNMENT-[NAICS Code 921190]: Entities that provide public property management services to the United States Government.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: NAME
Attribute Definition: Name of entity.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: NUMAGENCY
Attribute Definition:
Indicates the number of agencies that are located in the building. This count may be more than the number of agencies listed in the [AGENCYIES] field. Due to size restrictions, TGS was unable to fit all of the agency names into the [AGENCIES] field.
The values in this attribute have not been verified by TGS.

Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute Label: OBJECTID
Attribute Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute Definition Source: ESRI
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute Label: PHONE
Attribute Definition: Seven (7) digit telephone number for entity formatted as nnn-nnnn. All alphabetic characters have been translated to the corresponding numeric digit.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain:
Phone numbers formatted as nnn-nnnn. Only numeric digits are used. The first three (3) digits (the exchange) must form a valid combination with the area code. A list of valid area code and exchange combinations can be obtained from http://www.nanpa.com
Attribute:

Attribute Label: PHONELOC
Attribute Definition: Indicates whether the phone number in the phone field rings to the actual location of the entity.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: YES
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Phone number rings to the actual entity location.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: QC_QA
Attribute Definition: Organization that performed Quality Control/Quality Assurance on the record.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: TGS
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: TGS has performed Quality Control/Quality Assurance on the entity record after 01/01/2005.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SECCLASS
Attribute Definition: Security classification of feature.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: UNCLASSIFIED
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Entity is unclassified.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SHAPE
Attribute Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute Definition Source: ESRI
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute Label: STATE
Attribute Definition:
Two (2) character abbreviation for state associated with the entity's physical address. In almost all cases this is the same as the state where the entity has been depicted geospatially. However, there are cases, particularly where an entity is part of a larger facility that cuts across state lines, where the entity's location may be depicted in a state other than the one indicated in this attribute. Also, the state in which an entity appears to be located may change depending on the scale of the state boundary theme being used.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Codeset Domain:

Codeset Name: Official USPS Abbreviations - State Abbreviations
Codeset Source: United States Postal Service http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ST_VENDOR
Attribute Definition: Indicates name of vendor providing original street data used for geocoding.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: NAVTEQ
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: NAVTEQ streets were used for geocoding.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ST_VERSION
Attribute Definition: Indicates the version of streets used for geocoding.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: 2006Q4
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: 2006Q4 NAVTEQ Street Data used for geocoding.
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: TGS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: X
Attribute Definition: Longitude in WGS 84 Decimal Degrees.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Range Domain:

Range Domain Minimum: -180
Range Domain Maximum: 180
Attribute Units of Measure: WGS 84 Decimal Degrees

Attribute:

Attribute Label: Y
Attribute Definition: Latitude in WGS 84 Decimal Degrees.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Range Domain:

Range Domain Minimum: -90
Range Domain Maximum: 90
Attribute Units of Measure: WGS 84 Decimal Degrees

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ZIP
Attribute Definition: Five (5) digit USPS zip code for entity's physical location.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Codeset Domain:

Codeset Name: USPS Address Information System - Domain is further restricted by only allowing physical (non PO Box) zip codes.
Codeset Source: United States Postal Service

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ZIPP4
Attribute Definition: Four (4) digit USPS zip code extension. This attribute was automatically assigned using the entity's physical address and USPS address information system (AIS) data.
Attribute Definition Source: TGS
Attribute Domain Values:

Codeset Domain:

Codeset Name: USPS Address Information System (AIS) - ZIP9
Codeset Source: United States Postal Service

Overview Description:

Entity and Attribute Overview:
For entities that were contacted, the name, address, city, state, and five (5) digit zip codes were verified to be correct as of the date indicated by the [CONTDATE] attribute. The existence of the entity was also verified, as well as whether or not it met the criteria for inclusion in this dataset. Four (4) digit zip code extensions were derived from USPS (United States Postal Service) data and were not verified.
All records with a [GEOHOW] = "MANUAL" had the following checks performed on them.

ID Check: The [ID] attribute is not blank and each of its values is unique.

Coordinate Check: Coordinates are not null or zero and the x and y fields match the shape.

Basic Address Check: Physical addresses were verified to be non blank and to not be a "PO Box", "General Delivery", "Highway Contract", or "Rural Route" address.

Highway Address without Type Check: Physical addresses containing the word "Highway" or "Route" were verified to also contain a type designator such as "State", "US", or "County", if one actually exists for the highway or route. These type designators are often missing from addresses, leading to confusion if more than one "Highway" of the given number exists in an area.

Basic Name Check: Entity name is not blank, is not the same as entity city, and has a minimum of 2 characters. Name does not contain punctuation characters that can interfere with database operations, such as " (quote) and * (asterisk).

Basic Phone Check: All phone numbers (including the area code) are ten (10) numeric digits. Alphabetic characters have been converted to the corresponding numeric digit.

City Check: Entity city is not blank and is found in the named places file within 25 miles.

County FIPS to State Compare Check: The county represented by the tabular FIPS Code attribute is actually in the state specified by the state attribute.

County Name to State Compare Check: The county represented by the tabular county name attribute is actually in the state specified by the state attribute.

Phone Number Format Check: Phone numbers (including area code) were verified to be formatted as nnn-nnn-nnnn.

NPA_NXX Check: Area codes (sometimes called "Number Planning Areas", or NPA's) and central office codes (sometimes known as exchanges, or NXX's) were validated against data from the North American Number Planning Administration (NANPA). In some cases, NPA-NXX combinations did not show up in the NANPA data but were verified to work.

Area Code Distance Check: Area code (NPA) is valid and is within its area code boundary.

Zip Code Check: The zip code is five (5) or nine (9) numeric digits, is listed in the postal database, is in the same state as indicated by the entity's [STATE] attribute, and is not a PO Box only zip code.

Zip City Check: The entity's zip code and its city were verified to match according to the USPS Address Information System (AIS).

Collocation Check: Entities with different addresses must not share the exact same geospatial location.

Geographic Spell Check: Words that appear in the entity name were checked against a standard English word list (and Spanish word list for entities in Puerto Rico). Words not appearing in these standard word lists were then checked against names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) of geographic features that are located within 25 miles of the entity. Proper names were manually reviewed for correct spelling.

Distributor:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: (MEGIS) Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems

Contact Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing address
Address: State House Station 145
City: Augusta
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04333-0145
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: (207) 624-7700
Contact Facsimile Telephone: (207) 287-3842
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800 - 1700 EST

Distribution Liability:
Users must assume responsibility to determine the usability of this data for their purposes. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems, no warranty expressed or implied is made by MEGIS regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. Neither the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems, nor any of its contributors, is liable for misuse of the data, for damage, for transmission of viruses, or for computer contamination through the distribution of these data sets.
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Digital Transfer Information:

Format Name: ESRI Shapefile
Format Version Number: ARC Version 9.x
Format Specification: ArcView Shapefile Format
Format Information Content:
MEGIS has made all vector layers, in the Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog, available in ESRI's ArcView shapefile format. A shapefile is a simple non-topological format that stores the geometry and attribute information for a set of geographic features as a set of vector (point, line, polygon) coordinates. Shapefiles draw quickly and directly in ArcView, ArcGIS, ArcExplorer. Shapefiles are a compatible data type for many other types of GIS software. Three files are fundamental to each shapefile: .shp stores the feature geometry (shape and location information); .shx stores the index of the feature geometry; .dbf a dBASE (TM) file stores the attribute information for the features. Other index files may be created to help speed analysis and query: these file formats are .sbn .sbx .ain .aix .fbn and .fbx. In addition you may find projection .prj, and metadata .xml, files associated with shapefiles.
File Decompression Technique:
Data available from this website is in .zip compressed format. WinZip is a Windows based, PKZip-compatible compression utility. You will need a program like this to extract the data. A link to a trial copy WinZip software is available at http://megis.maine.gov/links/.
Digital Transfer Option:

Online Option:

Access Instructions:
These data are available to Internet browsers for download from the Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog. Data available from this website is in .zip compressed format. WinZip is a Windows based, PKZip-compatible compression utility. You will need a program like this to extract the data. A link to a trial copy WinZip software is available at http://megis.maine.gov/links/. If you are not already a GIS user, free software for viewing these files is available from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI). See http://megis.maine.gov/links/ for a link to ArcExplorer 9.x .
Digital Transfer Option:

Online Option:

Access Instructions: Where file size and Internet access permit, data requests can be made available via File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Fees: Data may be downloaded from Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog at no charge.
Turnaround: Data is available for immediate download from the Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog.

Standard Order Process:

Distributor:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: (MEGIS) Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems

Contact Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing address
Address: State House Station 145
City: Augusta
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04333-0145
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: (207) 624-7700
Contact Facsimile Telephone: (207) 287-3842
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800 - 1700 EST

Distribution Liability: Users must assume responsibility to determine the usability of this data for their purposes.
Standard Order Process:

Digital Form:

Digital Transfer Information:

Format Name: ARCSDE
Format Version Number: ArcSDE 9.x
Format Information Content: Oracle 9i

Digital Transfer Option:

Online Option:

Access Instructions: Please contact the Maine Office of GIS (MEGIS) for access instructions.

Fees: Access is available through Maine's wide area network; WAN users may contact the Maine Office of Information Technology, Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS) for a login.

Resource Description: Downloadable Data

Metadata Date: 2/19/2008
Metadata Review Date: 3/12/2008
Metadata Future Review Date:
Metadata Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Person Primary:

Contact Person: Mike Thompson
Contact Organization: TechniGraphics, Inc.

Contact Position: Director of Geospatial Datasets
Contact Address:

Address Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 2000 Noble Drive
City: Wooster
State or Province: OH
Postal Code: 44691
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 330-263-6222
Contact Facsimile Telephone: 330-263-6294
Contact Electronic Mail Address: mthompson@tgstech.com
Hours of Service: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday, Eastern Time

Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Time Convention: local time