Metadata: Regional Solicitation Functional Class Roads

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Regional Solicitation Functional Class Roads - Existing

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Metadata created using Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines

Metadata Summary

Originator	Metropolitan Council and NCompass Technologies (formerly The Lawrence Group)
Abstract	Regional Solicitation Functional Class: The regional solicitation functional class roads are a specific version of the functional class roads to be used in the 2011 solicitation process. This file will not undergo the quarterly TLG update process standard to the functional class roads. It will remain as is for the entire solicitation process. Meeting minutes for the TAC Planning Committee are the official record of change requests. If errors are found in this data, they will be corrected against the minutes. The functional class roads layer contains major roads and highways in the Twin Cities seven county metropolitan area. The line work for the dataset was derived from NCompass Technologies' (formerly The Lawrence Group) Street Centerline and Address Range dataset. The specific classifications assigned to the roadways resulted from efforts of the Technical Advisory Committee Planning Committee and the Transportation Advisory Board as specified in the transportation planning process, using federal rules and guidelines. The 'A' minor arterial network was adopted by the Transportation Advisory Board in 1993. Attributes include road name and functional classification code and name.
Browse Graphic	View a sample of the data.
Time Period of Content Date	06/01/2011
Currentness Reference	Includes linework from the TLG street centerline dataset released at the time period of content date above.
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	None
Distributor Organization	Metropolitan Council
Ordering Instructions	This dataset is distributed on the internet by clicking below after 'Online Linkage'. Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a web mapping service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the blue or green boxes under the map service column of the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ .
Distribution Liability	NOTICE: The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the Metropolitan Council for its own internal business purposes. The Metropolitan Council does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, it is recommended that the GIS Data include a copy of this disclaimer and this metadata.
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Full Metadata

Regional Solicitation Functional Class Roads - Existing

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1. Identification Information
2. Data Quality Information
3. Spatial Data Organization Information
4. Spatial Reference Information
5. Entity and Attribute Information
6. Distribution Information
7. Metadata Reference Information


Section 1	Identification Information		Top of page
Originator	Metropolitan Council and NCompass Technologies (formerly The Lawrence Group)
Title	Regional Solicitation Functional Class Roads - Existing
Abstract	Regional Solicitation Functional Class: The regional solicitation functional class roads are a specific version of the functional class roads to be used in the 2011 solicitation process. This file will not undergo the quarterly TLG update process standard to the functional class roads. It will remain as is for the entire solicitation process. Meeting minutes for the TAC Planning Committee are the official record of change requests. If errors are found in this data, they will be corrected against the minutes. The functional class roads layer contains major roads and highways in the Twin Cities seven county metropolitan area. The line work for the dataset was derived from NCompass Technologies' (formerly The Lawrence Group) Street Centerline and Address Range dataset. The specific classifications assigned to the roadways resulted from efforts of the Technical Advisory Committee Planning Committee and the Transportation Advisory Board as specified in the transportation planning process, using federal rules and guidelines. The 'A' minor arterial network was adopted by the Transportation Advisory Board in 1993. Attributes include road name and functional classification code and name.
Purpose	To provide a standardized regional functional classification system for the 2011 solicitation process
Time Period of Content Date	06/01/2011
Currentness Reference	Includes linework from the TLG street centerline dataset released at the time period of content date above.
Progress	Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency	None planned
Spatial Extent of Data	Twin Cities seven county metropolitan area. This includes the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington in Minnesota.
Bounding Coordinates	-94.012 -92.732 45.415 44.471
Place Keywords	Twin Cities, Anoka County, Carver County, Dakota County, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Scott County, Washington County
Theme Keywords	roads, streets, highways, functional class, centerlines, major roads, transportation, solicitation
Theme Keyword Thesaurus	None
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	None
Contact Person Information	Rachel Wiken, GIS Tech Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1805 Phone: 651.602.1572 FAX: E-mail: rachel.wiken@metc.state.mn.us
Browse Graphic	View a sample of the data.
Browse Graphic File Description	Example of RegSolFunClassExisting layer.
Associated Data Sets	- TLG Street Centerline and Address Range dataset. - Regional Solicitation Functional Class Roads - Planned. - Major Highways.

Section 2	Data Quality Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Attribute Accuracy	Functional classification values were entered and checked by Metropolitan Council GIS staff and double checked by Metropolitan Council Transportation Planning staff.
Logical Consistency	The dataset is topologically 'clean'.
Completeness	Entire seven county geographic area is covered.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy	Positional accuracy varies throughout the dataset. Most line work in most counties falls within the road right of way, often near the center. Anoka County data is an exception to this, with line work, in some places, being significantly off from the actual centerline. Text below taken from TLG metadata: There are differing degrees of positional accuracy throughout the file. TLG adjusts the positional accuracy of the data to available sources known to have a greater degrees of accuracy then those used to generate the existing data. However, in all cases (including instances where COGO line work has been the reference) TLG generalizes the street segments to at least 4 feet in order to greatly reduce the number of vertices - thus reducing unnecessary file size and allowing for faster analysis. TLG's goal is to have 95% of roads located to within the approximate center of digital right-of-way data or pavement centerlines provided from counties, where such digital data is available. In other areas, 95% of roads are intended to be within ten meters of the road or right-of-way center. For the counties of Dakota and Washington, TLG has adjusted the positional alignment of its centerlines by referencing the Washington and Dakota County Surveyors department geospatial dataset. Positional adjustments were also made to data supplied by the Ramsey County Public Works department in May 1998. These adjustments were made relative to each county's centerline dataset. TLG was informed that Ramsey County was continuing to review their own data for positional accuracy; however, TLG's adjustment was necessary in order that users could more efficiently utilize both datasets concurrently. Due to the large number of changes, the Ramsey County adjustments are noted here in the metadata rather than being reflected in the quarterly change report as individual segment changes. Additionally, positional adjustments were made as of July 31, 1998 to street centerlines within the city of Minneapolis. These changes were made relative to street centerlines provided by the city of Minneapolis. Again, due to the large number of changes, these positional adjustments are noted here rather than in the quarterly change report. For all other areas, various resources were used. For more information please review the section on lineage that follows. Again, as datasets of greater known accuracy become available, TLG's goal is to adjust its centerline database based on those reference sources.
Lineage	To create this dataset, a new Metropolitan Council functional class attribute was added to the TLG Street Centerline and Address Range dataset. Then lines for all roads with functional class codes were selected and coded. All roads that did not have a functional class code were then removed, as were many of the attributes from the original TLG dataset.
Source Scale Denominator

Section 3	Spatial Data Organization Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Native Data Set Environment	ArcGIS 9x
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data	None
Spatial Object Type	Vector
Vendor Specific Object Types	arcs, nodes
Tiling Scheme	One layer for entire seven county region.

Section 4	Spatial Reference Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Horizontal Coordinate Scheme	UTM
Ellipsoid	GRS80
Horizontal Datum	NAD83
Horizontal Units	Meters
Distance Resolution
UTM Zone Number	15

Section 5	Entity and Attribute Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page

Entity and Attribute Overview

LINE ATTRIBUTES: 
(In addition to the default ArcInfo attributes) 
  
STREETALL: Full street name. 
  
ALT_NAM1:  Alternate street name 1. 
  
ALT_NAM2:  Alternate street name 2. 
  
TLGID:     TLG unique identification number. 
  
FUN_CLAS:  The functional classification assigned to the road. 
             100 = Principal Arterial  
             211 = A-minor Augmenter 
             212 = A-Minor Reliever 
             213 = A-Minor Expander 
             214 = A-Minor Connector 
             220 = B-Minor 
             310 = Major Collector 
             320 = Minor Collector 
 
FC_NAME:   (Text) Functional classification assigned to the road

Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation	None

Section 6	Distribution Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Publisher	Metropolitan Council
Publication Date	Periodically revised
Contact Person Information	Mark Kotz GIS Database Administrator Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1805 Phone: 651-602-1644 FAX: 651-602-1674 E-mail: mark.kotz@metc.state.mn.us
Distributor's Data Set Identifier	RegSolFunClassExisting
Transfer Format Name	Shape file
Transfer Format Version Number	ArcGIS 9x
Transfer Size	2.2 Meg. for zip file.
Ordering Instructions	This dataset is distributed on the internet by clicking below after 'Online Linkage'. Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a web mapping service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the blue or green boxes under the map service column of the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ .
Distribution Liability	NOTICE: The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the Metropolitan Council for its own internal business purposes. The Metropolitan Council does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, it is recommended that the GIS Data include a copy of this disclaimer and this metadata.
Online Linkage	I AGREE to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above. Clicking to agree will begin the download process (See Ordering Instructions above for details.)

Section 7	Metadata Reference Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Metadata Date	06/01/2011
Contact Person Information	Rachel Wiken, GIS Tech Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1805 Phone: 651-602-1572 FAX: E-mail: rachel.wiken@metc.state.mn.us
Metadata Standard Name	Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version	1.2
Metadata Standard Online Linkage	http://www.gis.state.mn.us/stds/metadata.htm

This page last updated: 06/01/2011