BoundaryOther_HOUS2002

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: GIS Database Administrator

Publication_Date: 20110107

Publication_Time: unknown

Title: BoundaryOther_HOUS2002

Edition: 2002

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Vermont House Districts - 2002 (Act 151 Redistricting)

Issue_Identification: 2002

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Waterbury, VT

Publisher: VCGI

Other_Citation_Details: Tile Structure - STATE

Description:

Abstract:

The House district lines for this layer were determined from maps posted on the Vermont Legislature website (<http://www.leg.state.vt.us/reports/02redistricting/>), whilst the geospatial lines were selected from the datalayers - BoundaryTown_TBHASH (replaced by BNDHASH 6/2003), WaterHydro_VHD, TransRoad_RDS, Water Hydro_LKCH100, and TransRail_RR. Each House district is comprised of existing Vermont town boundaries, roads, railroads, rivers or streams, lake boundaries, or Block boundaries from DemoCensus_TIGER 2000 data (obtained from the 'Geography Network' - <http://www.geographynetwork.com/>)
The redistricting process of the Vermont State House and Senate is regulated by Act 151., which is an act relating to professional regulation and redistricting the Senate and the House of Representatives.
During conference negotiations between the House and Senate, it became necessary (for technical reasons) to append ALL of S.300, including both House and Senate reapportionment plans, to House Bill H.761, the Professional Regulation bill, which was passed as Act 151, An Act Relating to Professional Regulation and Redistricting the House and Senate, completing the 2002 legislative reapportionment. For more information, please see the above listed URL.

Purpose: Vermont House districts

Supplemental_Information:

This datalayer of state House districts is derived from the BoundaryTown_TBHASH (replaced by BNDHASH 6/2003), WaterHydro_VHD, TransRoad_RDS, WaterHydro_LKCH100, and TransRail_RR datalayers. The BoundaryOther_HOUS2002 layer deliniates the districts as decribed in the Vermont State Statutes.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20110107

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.454162

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.465281

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.018361

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.722789

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: boundaries

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Vermont House districts

Theme_Keyword: districts

Theme_Keyword: House districts

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Vermont

Access_Constraints:

VCGI and the State of VT make no representations of any kind, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the data.

Use_Constraints: None

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: VT Center for Geographic Information

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 1 National Life Dr, Dewey Building, 2nd Floor

City: Montpelier

State_or_Province: VT

Postal_Code: 05620-2001

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (802) 585-0820

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: None

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone:

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vcgi@vermont.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9am - 5pm, M-F

Data_Set_Credit: Jeff Sanders

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: N/A

Security_Classification: Unclassified

Security_Handling_Description: No Security Considerations

Native_Data_Set_Environment: Arc/Info

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: VT State Legislature

Publication_Date: 20020826

Publication_Time: unknown

Title: Act 151 Redistricting

Edition: 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Vermont House Districts (Act 151 Redistricting)

Issue_Identification: 1.0

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Montpelier, VT

Publisher: VT State Legislature

Other_Citation_Details: Act 151 Redistricting

Online_Linkage: <http://www.leg.state.vt.us/reports/02redistricting/>

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The major statistic used in comparing redistricting plans is the percent deviation (contained within the attribute table of this datalayer. Calculation of the Percent Deviation consists of - (1) An "ideal district", determined by dividing the population of the state by the total number of representative districts. With 150 House districts in Vermont, following the 2000 census, the "ideal district" would have a population of exactly 4,059. (2) The "deviation from the ideal" of each individual district is then calculated and expressed as a percentage. For example, a district with ten percent more population than the ideal district has a deviation of +10% and a district with nine percent less population than the ideal has a deviation of -9%. (3) The "overall deviation" from the ideal for the entire plan is calculated by adding the percentage deviation from the ideal of the largest district in the state plan to the percentage deviation from the ideal of the smallest district in the state plan (disregarding positives or negatives). If the largest district has a deviation of +10% and the smallest has a deviation of -9%, the "overall deviation" of the plan for the entire state is 19%. For reference, the redistricting plan enacted by legislature for the House in 1992 had an overall deviation of 17.6%

Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:

Attribute_Accuracy_Value: 1.220 map units

Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation: Fuzzy Tolerance

Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:

Attribute_Accuracy_Value: 0.00 map units

Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation: Dangle

Logical_Consistency_Report:

BoundaryOther_HOUS2002 was developed for compatibility with all other VGIS datalayers. Therefore, House districts do not follow most TIGER Census Blocks with precision. House district lines follow town boundaries, rivers, lakes, roads, and railroads. Please refer to these respective VGIS datalayers for consistency reports: BoundaryTown_TBHASH (replaced by BNDHASH 6/2003, however, HOUS2002 has not been revised to reflect this change), TransRoad_RDS, TransRail_RR, WaterHydro_LKCH100, and WaterHydro_VHD.

Completeness_Report:

The locations of the boundary lines for each House district were initially selected from Census 2000 TIGER/Line® Block data obtained from the Geography Network (<http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/>). Appropriate House districts were determined by selecting polygon FIPS codes as stated by the 2002, Act 151, House Block Equivalency files posted on the Vermont Legislature website (<http://www.leg.state.vt.us/reports/02redistricting/>). For the purpose of developing a uniform Vermont geospatial data infrastructure, another layer was then created using arcs from the BoundaryTown_TBHASH (replaced by BNDHASH 6/2003, however, HOUS2002 has not been revised to reflect this change), Water Hydro_VHD, TransRoad_RDS, WaterHydro_LKCH100, and TransRail_RR datalayers, which followed the block patterns in the initial TIGER data layer (In some cases, TIGER 2000 Census Blocks were used because no other data was available). The House districts were then verified based on visual inspection of an existing 2002 House district map posted on the State Legislature's website (see above URL). The attribute data (Population, Deviation, and Representatives) was obtained from this same source.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The line accuracy for this coverage is to be considered approximate. The BoundaryTown_TBHASH (replaced by BNDHASH 6/2003, however, HOUS2002 has not been revised to reflect this change) coverage was derived from several different sources and scales and since this coverage was derived from BoundaryTown_TBHASH the line accuracy cannot be considered any differently. See BoundaryTown_TBHASH documentation for more details (replaced by BNDHASH 6/2003, however, HOUS2002 has not been revised to reflect this change).

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: GIS Database Administrator

Publication_Date: 19931216

Publication_Time: unknown

Title: Vermont town boundaries, mostly from best available sources

Edition: 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Burlington, VT

Publisher: GIS Database Administrator

Other_Citation_Details: BoundaryTown_TBHASH

Source_Scale_Denominator: see Scr_descrp

Type_of_Source_Media: see Scr_descrp

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 19931216

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: BoundaryTown_TBHASH

Source_Contribution:

BoundaryTown_TBHASH coverage arcs used to create polygons. Note - TBHASH was replaced by BNDHASH 6/2003, however, HOUS2002 has not been revised to reflect this change)

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Developed BoundaryOther_HOUS2002, added attributes, and documented datalayer. Operator: - Daryl Benoit, VCGI.

Process_Date: 20020826

Process_Time: Unknown

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Updated portion of Windam District 4 based on information provided by the Windham RPC. The Windham 4 district includes a small portion of the Town of Westminster (mostly the village of North Westminster). Updated metadata and loaded into VGIS Data Warehouse. Operator: - Steve Sharp, VCGI.

Process_Date: 20020826

Process_Time: Unknown

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Updated attribute for county which includes Brighton/Canaan/Ferdinand in Northeast Kingdom to be named "Essex-Caledonia-Orleans" instead of "Essex-Caledonia-1". Updated metadata and loaded into VGIS Data Warehouse. Operator: - Ben Clayman, VCGI.

Process_Date: 20110107

Process_Time: Unknown

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference: POLY

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 113

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: 4400 (USGS), 5526 (ESRI)

Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.99996

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -072.500000

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: +42.500000

False_Easting: 500,000

False_Northing: 0.000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.001

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.001

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: 1 / 298.25722210

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Polygon

Entity_Type_Definition: Closed 2-D representation

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: VCGI

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DISTRICT

Attribute_Definition:

The name of the Senate District. Type (C), Width (30), Decimals (0)

Attribute_Definition_Source: Vermont Statutes

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: DISTRICT

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DISTABBR

Attribute_Definition:

The Legislature designated abbreviation of the Senate District. Type (C), Width (20), Decimals (0)

Attribute_Definition_Source: Vermont Statutes

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: DISTRICT

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: NUMREP

Attribute_Definition:

Number of Representatives from the district. Type (I), Width (2), Decimals (0)

Attribute_Definition_Source: Vermont Legislature Website

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: NUMREP

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Number of Representatives from the district

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Vermont Legislature

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CPOP2000

Attribute_Definition:

Total 2000 Census population within the district. Type (I), Width (7), Decimals (0)

Attribute_Definition_Source: Vermont Legislature Website

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: CPOP2000

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Population

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Vermont Legislature

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: VT Center for Geographic Information

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 1 National Life Dr, Dewey Building, 2nd Floor

City: Montpelier

State_or_Province: VT

Postal_Code: 05620-2001

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (802) 585-0820

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: None

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone:

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vcgi@vermont.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9am - 5pm, M-F

Resource_Description: BoundaryOther_HOUS2002

Distribution_Liability:

VCGI and the State of Vermont make no representations of any kind, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the data.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: .e00

Format_Specification: ESRI Shapefile format (compressed to ZIP format)

Format_Information_Content: geospatial data

File_Decompression_Technique: ZIP decompression software

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

https://maps.vcgi.vermont.gov/gisdata/vcgi/packaged_zips/BoundaryOther_HOUS2002.zip

Access_Instructions: Download from web site.

Offline_Option:

Offline_Media: USB drive

Fees:

No charge when downloading from the internet, and when no custom processing is required.

Ordering_Instructions: Send an email describing data request to vcgi@vermont.gov

Turnaround: About 5 days.

Custom_Order_Process: Send an email describing data request to vcgi@vermont.gov

Technical_Prerequisites: GIS Software

Available_Time_Period:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20020826

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20020826

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: VT Center for Geographic Information

Contact_Person: GIS Database Administrator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 1 National Life Dr, Dewey Building, 2nd Floor

City: Montpelier

State_or_Province: VT

Postal_Code: 05620-2001

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (802) 585-0820

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: None

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone:

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: Local time

Metadata_Access_Constraints: None

Metadata_Use_Constraints: None

Metadata_Security_Information:

Metadata_Security_Classification_System: N/A

Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified

Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: No security considerations