CGIA developed this set of point locations for potential emergency shelters in North Carolina as part of a project for the Flood Innundation and Forecast Mapping System. Structures selected to serve as shelters in disaster response will vary. This set represent structures of the type that may be selected by local emergency managers, the Red Cross, or other disaster response agencies.
These data were created to assist governmental agencies and others in making resource management decisions through use of a Geographic Information System (GIS). These data are useful in many planning and emergency management operations.
system filename: shelters03 file size = 0.8mb Revisions and updates to this layer include: >1) filename: shelters03 The 07/02/03 version was the first >released version of this data.
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Acknowledgement of products derived from this data set should cite the following: The source of the potential emergency shelter data is the North Carolina Corporate Geographic Database. Earlier versions of this dataset may exist. The user must be sure to use the appropriate data set for the time period of interest. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, CGIA cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by any inaccuracies in the data or as a result of changes to the data caused by system transfers.
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The attributes were loaded into the GIS from data supplied by the NC Department of Public Instruction, US Army Corps of Engineers, NC Community College System, Federal Emergency Management Agency (HAZUS 99), and the NC State Property Office. The values in this dataset are deemed to be reliable.
Using ESRI's ARC/INFO GIS software, the dataset was built for point topology using the "build" command. Topology has not been edited since the last build or clean.
The data represents those potential emergency shelters which were either address matched using ArcView geocoding or matched manually using the best available techniques. This data set does not contain all the potential emergency shelter locations in North Carolina, as other types of buildings may be appropriate for a specific event.
The majority of potential emergency shelter locations were generated using geocoding in ArcView. The point generated in the processing would be snapped to the road identified in the address field. Therefore, point locations are coincident with the GDT roads data.
Locations of Schools by address
Locations of Community Colleges
Exterior boundaries of state-owned complexes in a digital file.
Excel spreadsheet of public shelters with lat/long and state plane feet coordinates.
The data describe residential, commercial, industrial, and government building information.
CGIA used a road network from GDT, Inc. with ArcView GIS to geocode the addresses. This process matched potential emergency shelters with a point on the road network. Point locations are approximate, based on an interpolation of street numbers along street segments. The resulting file was checked to determine which addresses did not match. These locations were then added to the coverage interactively, using GDT roads, Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangels as backcovers. Many of these point locations are coincident with the center of buildings on digital imagery or along driveways and may be more accurate than points located using the first method. Geographic layers from the NC Corporate Geographic Database to determine potential emergency shelter locations.
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Internal feature number.
ESRI
Area code and phone number of shelter
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Building name
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
Type of building
NC CGIA
Physical address of shelter
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
Physical city in which shelter is located
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
State in which shelter is located
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
North Carolina
State of North Carolina
Zip code in which shelter is located
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
County in which shelter is located
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
Capacity in persons (if known) of shelter
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Contact person at shelter
Department of Public Instruction or State Property Office or NC Emergency Management
Feature geometry.
ESRI
The point attribute table (PAT) has attribute data including total area in coverage units (square meters), total perimeter (linear meters), two point internal identification numbers, and pertinent potential emergency shelters location information. >SCHLPL.PAT Point Attribute Table >COL ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE DEC DESCRIPTION >1 AREA 4 12 F 3 Total area in meters >5 PERIMETER 4 12 F 3 Total perimeter in meters >9 SHELTERS03# 4 5 B - Internal id number >13 SHELTERS03-ID 4 5 B - Internal id number >17 BLDG_NAME 50 50 C - Building name >67 BLDG_TYPE 50 50 C - Building Type >117 ADDRESS 50 50 C - Physical address of shelter >167 CITY 25 25 C - City in which shelter is located >192 STATE 2 2 C - State in which shelter is located >194 ZIP 5 5 C - Zip code in which shelter is located >199 COUNTY 25 25 C - County in which shelter is located >224 CAPACITY 5 5 C - Capacity of shelter >229 CONTACT 25 25 C - Contact person for shelter >254 PHONE 11 11 C - Area code and phone number of shelter
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