ACUF - U.S. BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features
<http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/acuf.html>
BGN - U.S. Board on Geographic Names
<http://geonames.usgs.gov/>
BODC - British Oceanographic Data Centre
<http://www.bodc.ac.uk/>
CMG InfoBank - USGS CMGP field activity and data catalog
<http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/>
CMGDS - USGS Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System
<http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/>
CMGP - USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program
<http://marine.usgs.gov/>
GAZ - gazetteer
GEBCO - General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
<http://www.gebco.net/>
GMIS - USGS Geospatial Management Information System (USGS Intranet)
GNIS - Geographic Names Information System
<http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/>
GNS - GEOnet Names Server
<http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/>
IHO - International Hydrographic Organization
<http://www.iho.int/>
Linestring - (aka polyline) an open graphic element composed of straight-line segments connected at the vertices.
MAF/TIGER - Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (U.S. Census Bureau database)
NGA - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
<http://www.nga.mil/>
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
<http://www.noaa.gov/>
NOAA/NGDC - NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
<http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html>
NOAA/NGDC/MGGD - NOAA/NGDC Marine Geology and Geophysics Division
<http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mggd.html>
NOAA/NOS - NOAA National Ocean Service
<http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/>
NOAA/NOS/OCRM - NOAA/NOS Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
<http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/programs/ocrm/>
Polygon - a closed graphic element composed of straight-line segments connected at the vertices.
OCM Inventory - Ocean and Coastal Mapping Inventory (of the Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping)
<http://iocm.noaa.gov/iwg/>
SCUFN - GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names
<http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/undersea_feature_names/>
Shapefile - geospatial vector data format that describes geometries as points, linestrings, and polygons (see above). A single shapefile may contain multiple features of the same geometry (several individual polygons, for instance).
UF - undersea feature
USGS - U.S. Geological Survey
<http://www.usgs.gov/>
VLIMAR - VLIZ Marine Gazetteer (now incorporated into Marine Regions website)
<http://www.marineregions.org/>
VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute
<http://www.vliz.be/en/intro>
WKT - well-known text, a markup language for vector geometry objects
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text>
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| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2) |
| Codeset Source: | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for the Identification of the Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 6-4) |
| Codeset Source: | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | INCITS 446-2008, (GNIS) Identifying Attributes for Named Physical and Cultural Geographic Features (Except Roads and Highways) of the United States, Its Territories, Outlying Areas, and Freely Associated Areas, and the Waters of the Same to the Limit of the Twelve-Mile Statutory Zone |
| Codeset Source: | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) |
| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2), INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for the Identification of the Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 6-4) |
| Codeset Source: | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for the Identification of the Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 6-4) |
| Codeset Source: | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Formal codeset | |
|---|---|
| Codeset Name: | INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for the Identification of the Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 6-4) and the translated legal/statistical area description code for county that appears in LSAD00 |
| Codeset Source: | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| 00 | Blank |
| 03 | City and Borough |
| 04 | Borough |
| 05 | Census Area |
| 06 | County |
| 07 | District |
| 10 | Island |
| 12 | Municipality |
| 13 | Municipio |
| 15 | Parish |
| 25 | city |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| C7 | An incorporated place that is independent of any county |
| H1 | An active county or equivalent feature |
| H4 | An inactive county or equivalent feature |
| H5 | A statistical county equivalent feature |
| H6 | A county that is coextensive with an incorporated place, part of an incorporated place, or a consolidated city and the governmental functions of the county are part of the municipal government |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| G4020 | County or Equivalent Feature |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 100 |
| Maximum: | 599 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 10000 |
| Maximum: | 49999 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 10004 |
| Maximum: | 49994 |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| A | Active government providing primary general-purpose functions |
| B | Active government that is partially consolidated with another government but with separate officials providing primary general-purpose functions |
| C | Active government consolidated with another government with a single set of officials |
| F | Fictitious Entity created to fill the Census Bureau geographic hierarchy |
| G | Active government that is subordinate to another unit of government |
| N | Nonfunctioning legal entity |
| S | Statistical Entity |
These polygons are provided as criteria for selecting georeferenced data from other databases. The precision of geographic searches in any system that employs these polygons will depend on the nature of the search algorithm. This information is not intended for navigational purposes. These data are intended for science researchers, students, policymakers, and the general public. The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software to display geologic and oceanographic information. TL2009: In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.
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Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:This product provides polygons for coastal counties (and equivalent entities) as an aid in discovering online information about coastal and nearshore regions. This product is not an authoritative description of the counties currently included in the Coastal Zone Management Program (CZMP), although a 2009 list of CZMP counties was used to select the counties that are included. The current list of CZMP counties should be obtained directly from the NOAA/NOS Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM). This information is not intended for navigational purposes.
TL2009: No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the accuracy of these data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in general or the U.S. Census Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. government in the use of these files. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles is for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions. USGS: This dataset has been approved for release and publication by the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although this dataset has been subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.
| Data format: | Coastal county boundaries with attributes from the original TIGER data file. in format shapefile Size: 18.6 |
|---|---|
| Network links: |
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1284/data/CZMP_counties_2009.zip |
