Title: "Schools - Public" (2008) Description: CGIA developed this set of point locations for public schools in North Carolina as part of a project for the NC Division of Emergency Management. School data serves multiple purposes, but foremost for this project, public schools are vital facilities in terms of emergency management. Many schools serve as shelters and all are critical to hazard vulnerability planning and emergency response. CGIA used two methods to generate point locations for public schools. First, CGIA used a road network from GDT, Inc. with ArcView GIS to geocode the addresses. The initial process matched 60 percent of the schools with a point on the road network. Point locations are approximate, based on an interpolation of street numbers along street segments. Second, CGIA worked with the NC Department of Public Instruction to use the Transportation Information Management System (TIMS) to determine school locations. Many of these point locations are coincident with the center of school buildings on digital imagery or along driveways and may be more accurate than points located using the first method. | ||||
Keywords and Themes: Education, | ||||
Filename Prefix: schlpl | ||||
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Mapped Drive Folder: /cgia83/ncom200903/ | ||||
Total size of data files: 1.6 MB | ||||
Data Type: Shapefile | ||||
Feature Type: Point | ||||
Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_North_Carolina_FIPS_3200 | ||||
Datum: North American Datum of 1983 | Map Units: Meters | |||
Spatial Extent: North Carolina | ||||
Source Scale: unknown | ||||
Created by: NC Department of Public Instruction | ||||
Released by: NC Center for Geographic Information & Analysis | ||||
Content Date: varies - see metadata | ||||
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Collection Name: NC OneMap - 3/30/2009 | ||||
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Acquired Date: Downloaded Mar 30, 2009 | ||||
Distribution Restrictions: Public Domain | ||||
Note: Public download and possible updated data are available from NC OneMap | ||||
Links to Metadata, Documentation, and Mapping: Record ID: 3331_NCOM |
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