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Bridges, Tompkins County NY, 1998

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Identification Information
Citation
Originator
Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council
Originator
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Publication Date
1998
Title
Bridges, Tompkins County NY, 1998
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Publication Information
Publication Place
Tompkins County
Publisher
Tompkins County GIS Program
Online Linkage
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-000055
Abstract
Bridges in Tompkins County.
Purpose
Provides a location of each bridge, as well as certain information about each bridge, such as the State DOT Identifier, whether it is open or closed, etc.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
Current as of 1998
Time Instant
1998
Bounding Box
West
-76.693877
East
-76.246898
North
42.627394
South
42.271711
Theme Keyword
transportation
bridges
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
ISO Topic Category
structure
transportation
Theme Keyword
transportation
structure
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
CUGIR Category
Place Keyword
Tompkins County, New York
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
Access Restrictions
None
Use Restrictions
The following statement must be included with any products that use or are derived from this data set: Data contained in this product was originally produced by the New York State Department of Transportation and the Tompkins County GIS Program and may not be reproduced or redistributed without the express written consent of the originators. The originators do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information portrayed by the data.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Delivery Point
128 East Buffalo Street
City
Ithaca
State
New York
Postal Code
14850
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
(607) 274-5418
Contact Facsimile Telephone
(607) 274-5420
Contact Electronic Mail Address
gis@tompkins-co.org
Hours of Service
M-F 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Credit
New York State Department of Transportation, Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council, and Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Native Data Set Environment
PATH: /DATA/SHAPEFILES/TRANSPORTATION/BRIDGES SOFTWARE: WindowsNT 4.0 x86, ArcView Shapefile LAYERS: Points
Data Quality Information
Attribute Accuracy Report
See Entity and Attribute Information
Logical Consistency Report
Bridge locations from NYSDOT were compared to the 1991 Tompkins County Digital Planimetric Basemap series and adjusted accordingly. The MAINTENANC and STATUS fields were populated based on information received from the Tompkins County Highway Department.
Completeness Report
Complete coverage for entire County.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
The accuracy of the data set is limited to the accuracy of the 1991 Tompkins County Planimetric Base Map series.
Lineage
Source
Originator
New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT)
Publication Date
Title
New York State Bridges (from NYSDOT)
Online Linkage
http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gis3/data/dot.nybridg.html
Contribution
Initial positional location and Bridge Identification Number (BIN)
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
Point
Point and Vector Object Count
231
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Planar
Grid Coordinate System
Grid Coordinate System Name
State Plane Coordinate System 1983
State Plane Coordinate System
SPCS Zone Identifier
3102
Transverse Mercator
Planar Coordinate Information
Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
Coordinate Pair
Coordinate Representation
Abscissa Resolution
1
Ordinate Resolution
1
Planar Distance Units
US survey feet
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name
Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis
6378206
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
294.9786982
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
Bridges (Points, bridges.dbf)
Entity Type Definition
All road bridges that cross over public roads, water, or rail lines in Tompkins County, as well as all railroad bridges that cross over public roads.
Entity Type Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
Attributes
BIN
New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) Bridge Identification Number (BIN)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
ID
County-generated IDs for culverts and bridges that have not been assigned a NYSDOT BIN.
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
Maintenanc
Agency responsible for bridge maintenance
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
Shape
Type of geographic entity (internal attribute)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
Status
Status of the bridge
Open
Bridge is currently open to vehicular traffic
Open Footbridge
Bridge is currently open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic only
Closed
Bridge is currently closed to all traffic
Closed Railroad Bridge
Bridge is located on a railroad or former railroad and is currently closed to rail traffic
Replaced with culvert
Bridge has been replaced with a culvert or other device and no longer meets minimum length and design specifications to be defined by NYSDOT as a "bridge"
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
X_coord
Longitude (Easting) Coordinate for New York State Plane Central Feet 1983 North American Datum
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
Y_coord
Latitude (Northing) Coordinate for New York State Plane Central Feet 1983 North American Datum
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 2000
Distribution Information
Format Name
Shapefile
Format Name
metadata
Format Name
HTML metadata
Format Name
KML
Format Name
GeoJSON
Format Name
OGC:WMS
Distributor
Albert R. Mann Library
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/00/55/cugir-000055.zip
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/00/55/fgdc.xml
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/00/55/fgdc.html
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir000055outputFormat=application%2Fvnd.google-earth.kml%2Bxml
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir000055outputFormat=application%2Fjson
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wms?version=1.1.0request=GetMaplayers=cugir000055bbox=-76.70728637,42.26104051,-76.23348863,42.638064490000005width=256height=203srs=EPSG:4326format=image/png
Name
Distribution Information
Distributor
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20210712
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Albert R. Mann Library
Contact Address
Address
Albert R. Mann Library
City
Ithaca
State or Province
New York
Postal Code
14853
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
607-255-5406
Contact Electronic Mail Address
mann-ref@cornell.edu
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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