# NOS80K: Medium Resolution Digital Vector U.S. Shoreline shapefile for the Gulf of Maine GIS project

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## 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:
        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey, and the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of the Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA)
      Publication_Date: 1994
      Publication_Time: Unknown
      Title:
        NOS80K: Medium Resolution Digital Vector U.S. Shoreline shapefile for the Gulf of Maine GIS project
      Edition: 1.0
      Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
      Publication_Information:
        Publication_Place: Silver Spring, MD
        Publisher: NOAA/NOS/ORCA/SEA
      Online_Linkage: <http://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html>
      Online_Linkage:
        <http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/coastlines/nos80k/allus80k.zip>
      Larger_Work_Citation:
        Citation_Information:
          Originator: L.J. Poppe
          Originator: M.L. DiGiacomo-Cohen
          Originator: E.F. Doran
          Originator: S.M. Smith
          Originator: H.F. Stewart
          Originator: N.A. Forfinski
          Publication_Date: 2007
          Title:
            Geologic interpretation and multibeam bathymetry of the sea floor in the vicinity of the Race, eastern Long Island Sound
          Edition: 1.0
          Series_Information:
            Series_Name: Open-File Report
            Issue_Identification: 2007-1012
          Publication_Information:
            Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
            Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
          Other_Citation_Details: 1 DVD-ROM
          Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1012/>
  Description:
    Abstract:
      NOAA's Medium Resolution 1:70,000 scale Digital Vector Shoreline is a high-quality, Geographic Information System-ready, general-use digital vector data set containing the coastline of the contiguous United States of America. It was created by the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of NOAA's Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment. Compiled from hundreds of NOAA coast charts, this product comprises over 75,000 nautical miles of coastline (nearly 2.5 million vectices).

      The shoreline was created from data captured (digitized from scanned images of the master separates of the NOS Charts) from over 270 National Ocean Service Navigation Charts and spans some 80,000 nautical miles at an average map scale of 1:70,000.

      This product comprises over 75,000 nautical miles of coastline (nearly 2.5 million vectices), representing the entire conterminous United States of America. Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and all other interests and territories of the United States are not included in the collection.

      The data set is designed for a broad target audience ranging from governmental agencies, universities and other research institutions, to the private sector, and students, as well as any other concern requiring a general purpose digital shoreline layer for GIS and cartographic projects.

    Purpose:
      Because the ALLUS80K provides a higher detail of coastal inlets and waterways, this data layer was added to the GIS as a basemap for overlaying the surficial sediment data archived in this report. This data layer is a subset of the complete ALLUS80k coastline and shapefile and has been clipped to the GIS project extent.
    Supplemental_Information:
      Generally, 1:80,000 NOAA coast charts took precedence and were used when available. For areas where 1:80,000 charts were not readily available, charts with the next closest higher scale (e.g., 1:60,0000) were used down to the highest scale available. Alternately, if higher scale charts were not available, charts of the closest lower scale (e.g., 1:100,000) were used down to the lowest scale. The digital shoreline for Florida was obtained from the state. This digital file was originally created from NOAA nautical charts and was not recreated by SEA. Generally, for these shoreline sections (EC80_06, GC80_05, and GC80_06), the highest scale charts available were used to digitize the shoreline. The resultant average mapping scale for the entire Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline is approximately 1:70,000. See NOAA's Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline website for more details on this product: <http://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html>
  Time_Period_of_Content:
    Time_Period_Information:
      Single_Date/Time:
        Calendar_Date: 1994
    Currentness_Reference: publication date
  Status:
    Progress: Complete
    Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown
  Spatial_Domain:
    Bounding_Coordinates:
      West_Bounding_Coordinate: -77.877236
      East_Bounding_Coordinate: -66.791978
      North_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.459808
      South_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.069236
  Keywords:
    Theme:
      Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
      Theme_Keyword: NOAA
      Theme_Keyword: Digital Vector Shoreline
      Theme_Keyword: polygon shapefile
      Theme_Keyword: Digital Geographic Boundaries
      Theme_Keyword: shore
      Theme_Keyword: shoreline
      Theme_Keyword: coast
      Theme_Keyword: coastal features
      Theme_Keyword: Open-File Report 2007-1012
      Theme_Keyword: NOAA Survey H11250
      Theme_Keyword: H11250
      Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    Place:
      Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
      Place_Keyword: United States
      Place_Keyword: continental US
      Place_Keyword: conterminous US
      Place_Keyword: US 48 states
  Access_Constraints: None
  Use_Constraints:
    These data are not to be used for navigation purposes. Mariners should refer to the appropriate nautical chart.

    Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution.

  Point_of_Contact:
    Contact_Information:
      Contact_Person_Primary:
        Contact_Person: Steve Rohmann
        Contact_Organization: NOAA/NOS/SEA/ORCA
      Contact_Address:
        Address_Type: mailing and physical address
        Address: NOAA
        Address: N/ORCA1
        Address: 9th Floor
        Address: 1305 East-West Highway
        City: Silver Spring
        State_or_Province: MD
        Postal_Code: 20910
        Country: USA
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3000 x137
      Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384
      Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: srohmann@seamail.nos.noaa.gov
  Browse_Graphic:
    Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
      <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1012/data/basemaps/nos80k/nos80k.gif>
    Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
      Overview showing the extent of the clipped ALLUS80K shapefile (NOS80k) for the GIS project area.
    Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF
  Data_Set_Credit:
    Please credit National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey, and the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) Division of the Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA) as the originator of the dataset.
  Native_Data_Set_Environment:
    Digital files are available in two general formats (.BNA, and .GEN). There is 100% redundancy between these two formats. The digital files contain no point, polygon, regional, or thematic associations.

Data_Quality_Information:
  Attribute_Accuracy:
    Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
      The data supplied here are a compilation of information collected from some 270+ current or pre-release National Ocean Service Navigation Charts. In compiling this product we made no attempt to ascertain the congruency between the charted data, and the real world. Our objective was to simply capture the representative coastline as provided to us via the NOS Chart. Every effort was made to capture the shoreline on these charts as faithfully as our skills and technology allowed, and there is every indication that we were successful to this end. However, in doing so, we automatically conveyed the character (all aspects, both good and bad) of those data to our digital product. A character which may or may not be in agreement with the real world. Because of this, the user is advised to exercise caution in making any assumptions about the fallibility, or infallibility, of the spatial information supplied here; especially when circumstances warrant a high degree of absolute positional accuracy.

      Spatial data were derived directly from National Ocean Service Navigation Charts. The NOS Chart Products meet or exceed National Map Accuracy standards (hard copy); the digital data supplied in this compilation should, when plotted at scale, meet or exceed these same cartographic standards.

  Positional_Accuracy:
    Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
      Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
        The data supplied here are a compilation of information collected from some 270+ current or pre-release National Ocean Service Navigation Charts. In compiling this product we made no attempt to ascertain the congruency between the charted data, and the real world. Our objective was to simply capture the representative coastline as provided to us via the NOS Chart. Every effort was made to capture the shoreline on these charts as faithfully as our skills and technology allowed, and there is every indication that we were successful to this end. However, in doing so, we automatically conveyed the character (all aspects, both good and bad) of those data to our digital product. A character which may or may not be in agreement with the real world. Because of this, the user is advised to exercise caution in making any assumptions about the fallibility, or infallibility, of the spatial information supplied here; especially when circumstances warrant a high degree of absolute positional accuracy.
  Lineage:
    Source_Information:
      Source_Scale_Denominator: 80000
      Type_of_Source_Media: paper
    Process_Step:
      Process_Description:
        The complete ALLUS80K shapefile was clipped to the GIS project extent.
      Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: allus80k.dbf
      Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: allus80k.shp
      Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: allus80k.shx
      Process_Date: 20021106
      Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nos80k.dbf
      Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nos80k.shp
      Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nos80k.shx
      Process_Contact:
        Contact_Information:
          Contact_Person_Primary:
            Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
            Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
          Contact_Position: Information Specialist
          Contact_Address:
            Address_Type: mailing and physical address
            Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
            City: Woods Hole
            State_or_Province: MA
            Postal_Code: 02543-1598
            Country: USA
          Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281
          Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
          Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
  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: 8543

Spatial_Reference_Information:
  Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
    Geographic:
      Latitude_Resolution: 0.000000
      Longitude_Resolution: 0.000000
      Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
    Geodetic_Model:
      Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
      Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
      Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
      Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
  Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
    Altitude_System_Definition:
      Altitude_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
  Detailed_Description:
    Entity_Type:
      Entity_Type_Label: nos80k.dbf
      Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Attribute Table
      Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: FID
      Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Unrepresentable_Domain:
          Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Shape
      Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: ID

Distribution_Information:
  Distributor:
    Contact_Information:
      Contact_Person_Primary:
        Contact_Person: Steve Rohmann
        Contact_Organization: NOAA, N/ORCA1
      Contact_Address:
        Address_Type: mailing and physical address
        Address: NOAA
        Address: N/ORCA1
        Address: 9th Floor
        Address: 1305 East-West Highway
        City: Silver Spring
        State_or_Province: MD
        Postal_Code: 20910
        Country: USA
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3000 x137
      Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384
      Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rohmann@seamail.nos.noaa.gov
  Resource_Description:
    Downloadable Data: Medium Resolution Digital Vector U.S. Shoreline [OL 72 18.7 -66.5 -168]
  Distribution_Liability:
    Although this data has been processed successfully on a computer system at the NOAA, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by NOAA regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such war-ranty. NOAA warrants the delivery of this product in computer-readable format, and will offer a replacement copy of the product when the product is determined unreadable by computer input peripherals, or when the physical medium is delivered in damaged condition.
  Standard_Order_Process:
    Digital_Form:
      Digital_Transfer_Information:
        Format_Name: SHP
        Format_Version_Number: 3.2
        Format_Specification: ESRI polygon shapefile
        Format_Information_Content:
          The three files (nos80k.dbf, nos80k.shp, nos80k.shx) that comprise the ArcView shapefile, 'prj' and 'avl' files, browse graphic and an ASCII version of the metadata.
        File_Decompression_Technique: zip
        Transfer_Size: 38.544
      Digital_Transfer_Option:
        Online_Option:
          Computer_Contact_Information:
            Network_Address:
              Network_Resource_Name:
                <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1012/data/basemaps/nos80k/nos80k.zip>
              Network_Resource_Name: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1012/html/catalog.html>
          Access_Instructions: Data are downloadable via the World Wide Web (WWW).
        Offline_Option:
          Offline_Media: DVD-ROM
          Recording_Capacity:
            Recording_Density: 4.7
            Recording_Density_Units: Gbyte
          Compatibility_Information:
            The user must have a computer system with a DVD-ROM available. To browse the information contained on this DVD-ROM, the user must have a current WWW browser available. The user must also have software installed on their computer to unzip the archived file.
  Technical_Prerequisites:
    The data is available in ArcView shapefile format. The user must have ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data.

Metadata_Reference_Information:
  Metadata_Date: 20070423
  Metadata_Contact:
    Contact_Information:
      Contact_Organization_Primary:
        Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
        Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich
      Contact_Position: Information Specialist
      Contact_Address:
        Address_Type: mailing and physical address
        Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
        City: Woods Hole
        State_or_Province: MA
        Postal_Code: 02543-1598
        Country: USA
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281
      Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
      Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov
  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_Extensions:
    Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>
    Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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