Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Endangered Species Recovery Program Publication_Date: 1999 Title: Recovery Plan Geographic Place Names Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Fresno, CA, US Publisher: Endangered Species Recovery Program Other_Citation_Details: U.S. FWS, 1998 Recovery Plan for Upland Species of the San Joaquin Valley, California. Online_Linkage: http://arnica.csustan.edu/esrpp Description: Abstract: Point coverage of geographic names used in the SJV Recovery Plan Purpose: To show place name locations on maps used in the SJV Recovery Plan Supplemental_Information: The original coverage was created from the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) tabular database. Additional place names were added as needed. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1998 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.213 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -118.372 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.4086 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.8443 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Endangered Species Theme_Keyword: Recovery Planning Theme_Keyword: Conservation Theme_Keyword: Place Names Theme_Keyword: Geographic Names Theme_Keyword: GNIS Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: California Place_Keyword: San Joaquin Valley Access_Constraints: none Use_Constraints: None. Acknowledgement of the Endangered Species Recovery Program would be appreciated in products derived from this data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program Contact_Position: GIS Analyst Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: City: Fresno State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: Country: US Contact_Voice_Telephone: Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: rp_placenames.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Graphic of theme rp_placenames Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Data_Set_Credit: Scott E. Phillips Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: For points from the USGS, refer to URL: http://nsdi.usgs.gov/wais/maps/gnis.HTML#section2 For points added by, or edited by ESRP, the place names have been checked by ESRP and FWS staff for consistency with the text of the SJV Recovery Plan. Logical_Consistency_Report: Point locations. Completeness_Report: Place names used were selected by ESRP and USFWS employees editing the SJV Recovery Plan. Place names were selected to highlight geographic locations mentioned in the text. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: For points from the USGS, refer to URL: http://nsdi.usgs.gov/wais/maps/gnis.HTML#section2 For points added by ESRP, the horizontal positional accuracy should be within 25-250 meters depending on the aerial extent of the feature and the quality of the source map used. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 19810501 Title: Geographic Names Information System Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA, US Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://nsdi.usgs.gov/wais/maps/gnis.HTML Type_of_Source_Media: online Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: Unknown Ending_Date: 1981 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: GNIS Source_Contribution: Point location information and database fields. Process_Step: Process_Description: A copy of the text file containing the GNIS data for California was downloaded from the U.S. Geological Survey and imported into an INFO database. The INFO module of ARC/INFO was used to do the following: 1. Generate unique id numbers for each record., 2. Export the unique id and coordinate data for the records to a separate database., 3. Export the unique id and data fields for the records to a separate database., 4. The database of coordinate data was converted from Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds to Decimal degrees.,. The database of decimal degree data was exported to a text file with the unique ids to create an ARC/INFO generate file than could be used to convert the tabular coordinates to a point coverage. Once the point coverage was imported, point topology was build using the ARC/INFO BUILD command. The unique ids were used to join the database information to the point coverage. The point coverage was projected to UTM Zone 10 for use with other data. Process_Date: 1998 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program Contact_Position: GIS Analyst Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: City: Fresno State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: Country: US Contact_Voice_Telephone: Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Indirect_Spatial_Reference: database fields for the name of the County and USGS Topographic Map Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Planar: Grid_Coordinate_System: Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator Universal_Transverse_Mercator: UTM_Zone_Number: 10 Transverse_Mercator: Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996 Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -123 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 1927 Ellipsoid_Name: Clark 1866 Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.98 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Contains the attributes Name (name of feature), Type (type of feature as defined by the USGS GNIS), State (two letter state code), County (name of the county the point is in), and quadname (name of the USGS topographic map the point is in. Once the data had been edited, the attributes for State and County were assigned by a GIS identity operation using a coverage for 1990 County Boundaries obtained from the USGS National Atlas of the United States. See URL http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html for source data. The names of the counties were modified by removing the word " County" from the county name in order to emulate the orignal GNIS database field. The USGS topographic map names were assigned by an identity operation on a coverage of USGS 1:24,000 map boundaries obtained from the Gap Analysis Project of the U.C. Santa Barbara Biogeography Lab. See URL http://www.biogeog.ucsb.edu for more details on the data. The names of the topographic maps were modified from all upper case to proper case using the table program of ArcView GIS. This was done in order to emulate the topographic map names in the original GNIS data. Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: US Geological Survey, GNIS Data Users Guide. URL: http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/ti/GNIS/gnis_users_guide_toc.html Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program Contact_Position: GIS Analyst Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: City: Fresno State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: Country: US Contact_Voice_Telephone: Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail Resource_Description: Arc Export file of coverage rp_placenames Distribution_Liability: No warranty, expressed or implied is made by the ESRP regarding the utility of the data, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. These data are geographic illustrations and do not represent legal boundaries. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: ARCE Format_Version_Number: 7.2.1 Format_Specification: no compression Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://www.esrp.org/gis/ Access_Instructions: Large files may be GNU Zip compressed. Tools for decompression can be obtained from URL: http://www.gzip.org/ Online_Computer_and_Operating_System: Generic PC with Linux i386 2.2.5 Fees: Data may be accessed online without charge. Technical_Prerequisites: computer with software to import ARC/INFO GIS data Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 19990702 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program Contact_Position: GIS Analyst Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: City: Fresno State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: Country: US Contact_Voice_Telephone: Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: local time Metadata_Access_Constraints: none Metadata_Use_Constraints: none