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This page last updated: 07/17/2001
Metadata created using Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
| Originator | Metropolitan Council (from County Parcel Data) |
| Abstract | The dataset represents the boundaries of all public school districts in 1999-2000 school year. The dataset is derived from the school district attribute collected by the county assessors and the parcel boundary data from each county in the 7-county metro area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington). Notes: - Actual school district boundaries do not necessarily follow parcel boundaries. Thus, this dataset should be considered an approximation of the actual school district boundaries. - In some places discontiguous parcels were coded as islands of one school district within another school district. Where these parcels appeared to have no structure on them (e.g. no building value) or where they could be determined to be tax-exempt property, they were changed to be the same as the surrounding school district. Where such islands of school district appeared to be residential parcels or otherwise appeared to have a building of some sort on them, the were left as islands of one school district within another. No efforts have been made to verify the school district status of any of these parcels with the county assessors' offices. |
| Browse Graphic | View a sample of the data. |
| Time Period of Content Date | 04/2000 |
| Currentness Reference | Reflects all school district boundary corrections and consolidations completed as of the Time Period of Content date. Parcel data was requested by the Council from each of the 7 counties dated April 2000 to coincide with the Census. Parcels for Carver, Dakota, Ramsey, and Washington Counties were received by the Council in April 2000. Anoka and Hennepin Counties were received by the Council in 6/2000. Scott County parcels were received in 8/2000. |
| Access Constraints | None |
| Use Constraints | By acceptance of this data, the user agrees to include a copy of this metadata record, including the liability disclaimer, whenever the user transmits or provides the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user. We recommend that other interested parties download this dataset from the Data Finder web site (www.datafinder.org) to ensure that the most current data is obtained. |
| 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. This dataset can also be viewed and downloaded from the MetroGIS DataFinder Cafe at http://www.datafinder.org/cafe/ . The Cafe allows users to subset or clip datasets using an existing feature, such as a city or school district boundary or an ad-hoc, user defined area. 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/ . |
| Online Linkage | Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" in Section 6 of this metadata. |
Go to Section:
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 (from County Parcel Data) | |||
| Title | School Districts (Derived from Parcel Boundaries) | |||
| Abstract | The dataset represents the boundaries of all public school districts in 1999-2000 school year. The dataset is derived from the school district attribute collected by the county assessors and the parcel boundary data from each county in the 7-county metro area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington). Notes: - Actual school district boundaries do not necessarily follow parcel boundaries. Thus, this dataset should be considered an approximation of the actual school district boundaries. - In some places discontiguous parcels were coded as islands of one school district within another school district. Where these parcels appeared to have no structure on them (e.g. no building value) or where they could be determined to be tax-exempt property, they were changed to be the same as the surrounding school district. Where such islands of school district appeared to be residential parcels or otherwise appeared to have a building of some sort on them, the were left as islands of one school district within another. No efforts have been made to verify the school district status of any of these parcels with the county assessors' offices. |
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| Purpose | To provide a reasonably positionally accurate school district boundaries dataset to support a variety of mapping and data analysis applications. | |||
| Time Period of Content Date | 04/2000 | |||
| Currentness Reference | Reflects all school district boundary corrections and consolidations completed as of the Time Period of Content date. Parcel data was requested by the Council from each of the 7 counties dated April 2000 to coincide with the Census. Parcels for Carver, Dakota, Ramsey, and Washington Counties were received by the Council in April 2000. Anoka and Hennepin Counties were received by the Council in 6/2000. Scott County parcels were received in 8/2000. |
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| Progress | Complete | |||
| Maintenance and Update Frequency | None planned | |||
| Spatial Extent of Data | Twin Cities 7 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 |
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| Place Keywords | Twin Cities, Anoka County, Carver County, Dakota County, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Scott County, Washington County | |||
| Theme Keywords | school districts, schools, administrative boundaries | |||
| Theme Keyword Thesaurus | None | |||
| Access Constraints | None | |||
| Use Constraints | By acceptance of this data, the user agrees to include a copy of this metadata record, including the liability disclaimer, whenever the user transmits or provides the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user. We recommend that other interested parties download this dataset from the Data Finder web site (www.datafinder.org) to ensure that the most current data is obtained. |
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| 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 | |||
| Browse Graphic | View a sample of the data. | |||
| Browse Graphic File Description | Sample map showing the school_dist layer. | |||
| Associated Data Sets | School Districts and School Attendance Boundaries distributed by the Minnesota Land Managment Information Center at http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/chouse/metalong.html#admin |
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| Section 2 | Data Quality Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Attribute Accuracy | Unknown | |||
| Logical Consistency | The dataset is topologically 'clean'. | |||
| Completeness | Entire seven county geographic area is covered. | |||
| Horizontal Positional Accuracy | The school district boundaries are aligned along county parcel boundaries. The horizontal positional accuracy of these boundaries varies significantly by county. Metadata, where available, for county parcel data can be viewed at the MetroGIS DataFinder web sight at www.datafinder.org. | |||
| Lineage | 1999-2000 School Districts were dissolved in ArcView from each of the county parcel dataset shape files based on the school district identifier attribute. Then school district boundaries were heads-up digitized on these dissolved shape files, snapping the dissolved files. Where lakes and rights-of-way intersected school district boundaries, the lines were drawn across these features. School district boundaries that bordered road rights-of-way were drawn along one side of those rights-of-way. In some places discontiguous parcels were coded as islands of one school district within another school district. Where these parcels appeared to have no structure on them (e.g. no building value) or where they could be determined to be tax-exempt property, they were changed to be the same as the surrounding school district. Where such islands of school district appeared to be residential parcels or otherwise appeared to have a building of some sort on them, the were left as islands of one school district within another. No efforts have been made to verify any of these parcels with the county assessor's offices. |
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| Section 3 | Spatial Data Organization Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Native Data Set Environment | ArcGIS 8.1 | |||
| Geographic Reference for Tabular Data | None | |||
| Spatial Object Type | Vector | |||
| Vendor Specific Object Types | polygon shapes | |||
| 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 | |||
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| UTM Zone Number | 15 | |||
| Section 5 | Entity and Attribute Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Entity and Attribute Overview | Polygon Attributes: |
| Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation | None | |||
| Section 6 | Distribution Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Publisher | Metropolitan Council | |||
| Publication Date | 07/2001 | |||
| 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 |
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| Distributor's Data Set Identifier | school_dist_a | |||
| 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, the GIS Data must include a copy of this disclaimer. | |||
| Transfer Format Name | ArcView Shape file | |||
| Transfer Format Version Number | ArcGIS 9x | |||
| Transfer Size | 0.8 MB 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. This dataset can also be viewed and downloaded from the MetroGIS DataFinder Cafe at http://www.datafinder.org/cafe/ . The Cafe allows users to subset or clip datasets using an existing feature, such as a city or school district boundary or an ad-hoc, user defined area. 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/ . |
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| Online Linkage | Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above. | |||
| Section 7 | Metadata Reference Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Metadata Date | 07/17/2001 | |||
| 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 |
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| 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: 07/17/2001
