meown250

Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)
Publication Date: 19940101
Publication Time: Unknown
Title: meown250
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Series Information:

Series Name: Maine GIS
Issue Identification: SDE server; Internet Data Catalog

Publication Information:

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

Other Citation Details: 1:250000
Online Linkage: http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

Description:

Abstract:
MEOWN250 describes industrial, non-industrial, and public woodlot ownership in Maine at 1:250,000 scale. Industrial owners are those having at least one primary wood processing facility. Non-industrial owners are those with no primary wood processing facility. Public ownership includes property which is owned by either a local, state, or federal entity. Individual owners are NOT identified in this dataset. State, town, and coastline arcs in this dataset most closely match those of the 1:250,000 scale dataset METWP250. Data for this map were provided by the J.W.Sewall Co. to the Northern Forest Land Survey in 1993. Information in this dataset is NO LONGER CURRENT and should be used with caution. The dataset MECNSLND contains information on conservation lands ownership boundaries for Maine land in federal, state, and non-profit ownership with easements.
Purpose: MEOWN250 was created to identify major industrial, non-industrial, and public woodlot ownership.

Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 4/1990
Ending Date: 2/1992

Currentness Reference: source date

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: None planned

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

West Bounding Coordinate: -71.0064
East Bounding Coordinate: -66.85005
North Bounding Coordinate: 47.43994
South Bounding Coordinate: 43.05514

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ISO Keyword Thesaurus
Theme Keyword: boundaries
Theme Keyword: planningCadastre
Theme Keyword: economy

Theme:

Theme Keyword Thesaurus: Maine GIS Thesaurus-Theme
Theme Keyword: ownership

Place:

Place Keyword Thesaurus: Maine GIS Thesaurus-Place
Place Keyword: Maine
Place Keyword: United States

Stratum:

Stratum Keyword Thesaurus: GCMD Parameter Keyword
Stratum Keyword: human dimensions

Access Constraints:
Secondary distribution by permission only. Please see Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS) License Agreement at http://megis.maine.gov/ . Any secondary distribution must have this documentation appended.
Use Constraints:
Information in this coverage is NO LONGER CURRENT and should be used with caution. The dataset MECNSLND contains information on conservation lands ownership boundaries for Maine land in federal, state, and non-profit ownership with easements. Users must assume responsibility in determining the usability of this data for their purposes. Digital maps retain the accuracy of their source materials. The best use of data mapped at scales of 1:500,000 and 1:250,000 is in statewide planning and studies; at 1:100,000 in regional planning and studies; at 1:62,500 and 1:24,000 in detailed studies and local planning; and at 1:12,000 and 1:5,000 or larger scales in parcel level studies and detailed local planning. In the use of Maine GIS data, please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the correct copy of both data and metadata from the Maine GIS Data Catalog. The Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS) provides notice of updates and corrections directly to the Maine GIS Technical Group and Maine GIS Users, through the MEGISTECH and MEGISUSER list servers. To subscribe please contact MeGIS through the Maine Office of Information Technology (OIT) Customer Support Center (CSC) at (207) 624-7700. To request data correction in, or provide updates to Maine GIS data, please use the contact information contained in the metadata. Updates, corrections, and feedback, incorporated in the Maine GIS database are made in accordance with "Data Standards for Maine Geographic Information Systems", 2002, and coordinated by MEGIS in consultation with the Maine GIS Executive Council.
Point of Contact:

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

Data Set Credit: Credit should always be given to the data source and/or originator when the data is transferred or printed.
Native Data Set Environment:
Maine Office of Information Technology (OIT) Oracle 9i, Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS), Maine GIS SDE, SDEUSER, SDE.DEFAULT, Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

Attribute Accuracy:

Attribute Accuracy Report: Attribute accuracy is tested by manual comparison of the source with hard copy printouts and/or symbolized display of digital files. Please report errors to Maine Office of GIS.

Logical Consistency Report: Spatial topology is clean and free of errors. The coverage has been BUILT to POLYGON topology.
Completeness Report:
Information in this coverage is NO LONGER CURRENT and should be used with caution. The dataset MECNSLND contains information on conservation lands ownership boundaries for Maine land in federal, state, and non-profit ownership with easements.
Positional Accuracy:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report: Approximate horizontal accuracy is 127 meters, assuming source data meets National Map Accuracy Standards.
Quantitative Horizontal Positional Accuracy Assessment:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy Value: 127
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Explanation: Horizontal positional accuracy for the digital data is tested by visual comparison to the source with hard copy plots.

Vertical Positional Accuracy:

Vertical Positional Accuracy Report: Not applicable

Lineage:

Source Information:

Source Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS) and Governors' Task Force on Northern Forest Lands
Publication Date: 199004
Publication Time: Unknown
Title: (NFLS) Northern Forest Lands Study
Edition: second printing
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: atlas
Publication Information:

Publication Place: Rutland VT
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Other Citation Details:
Graphical image " Northern Forest Lands Study, Large Private and Public Holdings" prepared by the James W. Sewall Company for the Governors' Task Force on Northern Forest Lands and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, December 1989.
Source Scale Denominator: 2000000
Type of Source Media: paper and online
Source Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 4/1990
Beginning Time: Unknown
Ending Date: 2/1992
Ending Time: Unknown

Source Currentness Reference: publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation: nfls
Source Contribution: MEOWN250 was based on data collected for a graphical image "Large Public and Private Holdings" provided by J.W. Sewall Co. for the Northern Forest Land Study.

Source Information:

Source Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)
Publication Date: 20010601
Publication Time: Unknown
Title: metwp250
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Series Information:

Series Name: Maine GIS
Issue Identification: SDE server; Internet Data Catalog

Publication Information:

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

Other Citation Details: 1:250000
Online Linkage: http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

Source Scale Denominator: 250000
Type of Source Media: online
Source Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 1/1/1902
Beginning Time: Unknown
Ending Date: 6/1/2001
Ending Time: Unknown

Source Currentness Reference: source dates

Source Citation Abbreviation: metwp250

Process Step:

Process Description:
State, Town and coastline arcs in MEOWN250 were drawn from the 1:250000 scale coverage METWP250. Data on ownership parcels were provided by the J.W. Sewall Co. to the Northern Forest Land Survey and used in this coverage in 1993. Tile boundaries of the coverage INDEX100 were retained for spatial reference.
Source Used Citation Abbreviation: nfls
Source Used Citation Abbreviation: metwp250
Process Date: 1993
Process Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: James W. Sewall Company

Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 147 Center Street
City: Old Town
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04468
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: (207) 827-4456
Contact Facsimile Telephone: (207) 827-3641

Process Step:

Process Description:
The Maine Office of GIS completed the conversion of all final data layers from NAD27 to NAD83 in July 1999. All the data layers were converted using the ArcInfo (version 7.2.1) NADCON conversion and the "project" command. All data was copied to double precision, projected to NAD83, and then copied back to single precision. It was decided to keep the NAD27 quad structure instead of generating new quad boundaries from NAD83 coordinates - all indexes (quads) were projected to NAD83 by using the same process previously described. All MEGIS data libraries in ArcInfo Librarian were repopulated using the NAD83 indexes and data.
Process Date: 19990701
Process Contact:

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

Cloud Cover: 0

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

SDTS Terms Description:

SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: Area chain
Point and Vector Object Count: 6371

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: 1
Ordinate Resolution: 1

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: 298.257

Detailed Description:

Entity Type:

Entity Type Label: MEOWN250
Entity Type Definition: polygon feature class
Entity Type Definition Source: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)

Attribute:

Attribute Label: TYPE
Attribute Definition: woodlot ownership in Maine (Non-labeled polygons are private ownership.)
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: IND
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: industrial ownership - owner possesses at least one primary wood processing facility
Enumerated Domain Value: NIND
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: non-industrial ownership - owner possesses no primary wood processing facility
Enumerated Domain Value: PUB
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: public ownership - property is owned by either a local, state, or federal entity

Overview Description:

Entity and Attribute Overview:
MEOWN250 polygons are coded for the TYPE of ownership. Ownership attributes include IND industrial, NIND non-industrial, and PUB public. Individual owners are NOT identified. Information in this coverage is NO LONGER CURRENT and should be used with caution. The dataset MECNSLND contains information on conservation lands ownership boundaries for Maine land in federal, state, and non-profit ownership with easements.
Entity and Attribute Detail Citation:
The ArcView shapefile and ArcGIS geodatabase formats, commonly used for Maine GIS data, carry default identifiers and attributes that are software generated and/or important for internal recordkeeping. These are listed here to avoid repetition for every layer, and may not be repeated in the attribute descriptions and definitions of each layer. Common software generated identifiers and attributes in Maine GIS data include: FID (feature identifier), Shape (feature geometry), OBJECTID and SHAPE_lengt. In addition, most GIS formats will carry fields for PERIMETER, AREA and/or LENGTH according to feature geometry. These fields are typically available by default, with the units based on coordinate system or projection units of GIS data. Most GIS software packages also provide a means to calculate these values. It is important to test any columns containing PERIMETER, AREA or LENGTH values before using them for analysis purposes. These important values can be carried from format to format and become out-dated. Verify that the values are correct. Also, in your GIS software, please view the properties of data layers for the map units used to calculate these fields, and for the units set for display purposes.

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.
Standard Order Process:

Digital Form:

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:

Computer Contact Information:

Network Address:

Network Resource Name: http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

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:

Available Time Period:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 1/1/1994
Beginning Time: Unknown
Ending Date: Present
Ending Time: Unknown

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.

Metadata Date: 7/1/2000
Metadata Review Date: 9/25/2007
Metadata Future Review Date:
Metadata Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: 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: 207 287-4563
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800 - 1700 EST

Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998