FGDC-Compliant Metadata for FLDZONES
 
. IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

1.1 CITATION
(8.1)  ORIGINATOR: Illinois State Water Survey
(8.2)  PUBLICATION DATE: 1996
(8.4)  TITLE: Digital file name is - FLDZONES
              Data set title is - 100 and 500 year floodzones for unincoporated areas in Illinois

1.2 DESCRIPTION
1.2.1 ABSTRACT: The 100 year and 500 year floodzones for the unincorporated
areas as indicated on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
National Flood Insurance Program (FIRM) maps and Flood Hazard Boundary
maps were digitized from paper maps.  When digitizing, all RMS values were not
more than twenty feet.  The DBASE file FLOODPLA.DBF was also created and
contains documentation on individual panels during the digitizing process.
Mapscale:  1:6000 to 1:24,000
1.2.2 PURPOSE: Floodzones of unicorporated areas
 

1.3 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT
(9.1) SINGLE DATE/TIME
(9.1.1) CALENDAR DATE: 1986
1.3.1 CURRENTNESS REFERENCE:  As indicated on FEMA and FIRM maps
1.4 STATUS
1.4.1 PROGRESS: Complete
1.4.2 MAINTENANCE AND UPDATE FREQUENCY: As needed

1.5 SPATIAL DOMAIN
1.5.1 BOUNDING COORDINATES
1.5.1.1 WEST BOUNDING COORDINATE: -92.0
1.5.1.2 EAST BOUNDING COORDINATE: -87.5
1.5.1.3 NORTH BOUNDING COORDINATE: 42.5
1.5.1.4 SOUTH BOUNDING COORDINATE: 37.0

1.6 KEYWORDS
1.6.1 THEME
1.6.1.1 THEME KEYWORD THESAURUS:  none
1.6.1.2 THEME KEYWORD:  floodzones
1.6.2 PLACE
1.6.2.1 PLACE KEYWORD THESAURUS:  none
1.6.2.2 PLACE KEYWORD:  Illinois

1.7 ACCESS CONSTRAINTS:  none
 
1.8 USE CONSTRAINTS: 
Reproduction or redistribution of copyrighted digital datasets (wells) or products
derived therefrom outside of licensee's organization or entity is expressly
forbidden.  The only exception is redistribution to consultants working for the
licensee, and then only for purposes, related to work for the licensee.  Such
consultants may not further reproduce or redistribute these datasets.  None of the
data on this CD-ROM shall be electronically duplicated on magnetic or optical
media for use by others, in whole or in part, without permission of the appropriate
custodial division within DNR.

Any hardcopies utilizing DNR datasets shall clearly indicate their source.  If the
licensee has modified the data in any way they are obligated to describe the types
of modifications they have performed on the hardcopy map.  Licensee specifically
agrees not to misrepresent DNR datasets, nor to imply that changes they made
were approved by DNR.

This data is not to be used for commercial profit.

1.9 POINT OF CONTACT
(10.1) CONTACT PERSON PRIMARY
(10.1.1) CONTACT PERSON:Bob Sinclair
(10.1.2) CONTACT ORGANIZATION: Illinois State Water Survey, Office of
Surface Water Resources: Systems, Information & GIS
(10.3) CONTACT POSITION: Sr. Professional Scientist
(10.4) CONTACT ADDRESS:
(10.4.1) ADDRESS TYPE: mailing address
(10.4.2) ADDRESS: 2204 Griffith Dr.
(10.4.3) CITY: Champaign
(10.4.4) STATE OR PROVINCE: Illinois
(10.4.5) POSTAL CODE: 61820
(10.4.6) COUNTRY: USA
(10.5) CONTACT VOICE TELEPHONE: 217-333-4952
(10.7) CONTACT FACSIMILE TELEPHONE:
(10.8) CONTACT ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS: sinclair@sun.sws.uiuc.edu

1.13 NATIVE DATA SET ENVIRONMENT: Arc/Info version 7.0.3 software for
     UNIX, with no8.3 setting.


2. DATA QUALITY INFORMATION

2.1 ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY
2.1.1 ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY REPORT:
2.2 LOGICAL CONSISTENCY REPORT:  Polygon topology present.
2.4 POSITIONAL ACCURACY
2.4.1 HORIZONTAL POSITIONAL ACCURACY
2.4.1.1 HORIZONTAL POSITIONAL ACCURACY REPORT:
 
 
3. SPATIAL DATA ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
 
3.2 DIRECT SPATIAL REFERENCE METHOD:  Vector


4. SPATIAL REFERENCE INFORMATION

4.1 HORIZONTAL COORDINATE SYSTEM DEFINITION
4.1.2 PLANAR
4.1.2.1 MAP PROJECTION
4.1.2.1.1 MAP PROJECTION NAME: Lambert Conformal Conic
4.1.2.1.2 MAP PROJECTION-PARAMETERS
4.1.2.1.2.1 LATITUDE OF FIRST STANDARD PARALLEL: 33  0  0.000
4.1.2.1.2.1 LATITUDE OF SECOND STANDARD PARALLEL: 45  0  0.000
4.1.2.1.2.2 LONGITUDE OF CENTRAL MERIDIAN: -89 30  0.000
4.1.2.1.2.3 LATITUDE OF PROJECTION ORIGIN: 33  0  0.000
4.1.2.1.2.4 FALSE EASTING: 2999963.52 feet
4.1.2.1.2.5 FALSE NORTHING: 0.00000
4.1.4 GEODETIC MODEL
4.1.4.1 HORIZONTAL DATUM NAME: NAD27
4.1.4.2 ELLIPSOID NAME: CLARKE1866
4.2 VERTICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM DEFINITION
4.2.1 ALTITUDE SYSTEM DEFINITION
4.2.1.1 ALTITUDE DATUM NAME: NGVD29


5. ENTITY AND ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION
 
5.2 OVERVIEW DESCRIPTION
5.2.1 ENTITY AND ATTRIBUTE OVERVIEW:
 DATAFILE NAME: COUNTY-NAME.PAT     
 COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME
    1  AREA                4   12  F    3
    5  PERIMETER           4   12  F    3
    9  COUNTY-NAME#        4    5  B    -
   13  COUNTY-NAME-ID      4    5  B    -
   17  COLOR               2    2  I    -
   19  POINT#              6    6  I    -
 

Coding for INFO Items:

    1  AREA              area in square feet, computer generated
    5  PERIMETER         length in feet, computer generated
    9  COUNTY-NAME#      internal ID, computer generated
   13  COUNTY-NAME-ID    assigned by user 
   17  COLOR             72 = 100 yr.  70 = 500 yr.  0 = not in floodzone
   19  POINT#            100 = 100 year flood zone
                         500 = 500 year flood zone
                          55 = not in flood zone


DBASE File:  (Table 1)
Structure for database: C:\DBASE\FLOODPLA.DBF
Number of data records:    1461
Field  Field Name  Type       Width    Dec    Index
    1  STATECODE   Character      2               N
    2  COMMTYCODE  Character      4               N
    3  PANEL_NUM   Character      5               N
    4  COMMTYNAME  Character     50               N
    5  EFF_DATE    Character      8               N
    6  HAZEFFDATE  Character      8               N
    7  FIRMEFFDAT  Character      8               N
    8  FOLD_TYPE   Character      1               N
    9  FIRMSTATUS  Character     30               N
   10  FHBMSTATUS  Character     30               N
   11  NUM_COUNTY  Character      1               N
   12  NUM_PANELS  Numeric        3               N
   13  PANELNTPRT  Character      2               N
   14  SCALE       Character      8               N
   15  DIGITZDBY   Character      3               N
   16  TICSUSED    Character     40               N
   17  RMS         Character     10               N
   18  FEET        Character     13               N
   19  DIGITZDATE  Character     13               N
   20  CHECKEDBY   Character      3               N
   21  CREATGTIME  Character      5               N
   22  EDITGTIME   Character      5               N
   23  ELEVATION   Character      1               N
** Total **                     254
 


6. DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION

6.1 DISTRIBUTOR
(10.2) CONTACT ORGANIZATION PRIMARY: Illinois State Water Survey, Office
of Surface Water Resources: Systems, Information & GIS
(10.3) CONTACT POSITION: Robert Sinclair, Kingsley Allan, Kathy Brown
(10.4) CONTACT ADDRESS
(10.4.1) ADDRESS TYPE: mailing address
(10.4.2) ADDRESS: 2204 Griffith Drive
(10.4.3) CITY: Champaign
(10.4.4) STATE OR PROVINCE: Illinois
(10.4.5) POSTAL CODE: 61820
(10.4.6) COUNTRY: USA
(10.5) CONTACT VOICE TELEPHONE: 217-333-4952
(10.7) CONTACT FACSIMILE TELEPHONE:
(10.8) CONTACT ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS: sinclair@sun.sws.uiuc.edu,
k-allan@uiuc.edu

6.3 DISTRIBUTION LIABILITY:
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data "as is."  DNR make no guarantee or warranty concerning the accuracy of
information contained in the geographic data.  DNR further makes no warranties,
either expressed or implied, as to any other matter whatsoever, including, without
limitation, the condition of the product, or its fitness for any particular purpose.
The burden for determining fitness for use lies entirely with the user.  Although
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expressed or implied, is made by DNR regarding the use of these data on any
other system, nor does the fact of distribution constitute or imply any such
warranty.

In no event shall the DNR have any liability whatsoever for payment of any
consequential, incidental, indirect, special, or tort damages of any kind, including,
but not limited to, any loss of profits arising out of use of or reliance on the
geographic data or arising out of the delivery, installation, operation, or support
by DNR.


7. METADATA REFERENCE SECTION

7.1 METADATA DATE: 19960321
7.4 METADATA CONTACT
(10.1) CONTACT PERSON PRIMARY
(10.1.1) CONTACT PERSON: Bob Sinclair
(10.1.2) CONTACT ORGANIZATION: Illinois State Water Survey, Office of
Surface Water Resources: Systems, Information & GIS
(10.4) CONTACT ADDRESS
(10.4.1) ADDRESS TYPE: mailing address
(10.4.2) ADDRESS: 2204 Griffith Dr.
(10.4.3) CITY: Champaign
(10.4.4) STATE OR PROVINCE: Illinois
(10.4.5) POSTAL CODE: 61820
(10.4.6) COUNTRY: USA
(10.5) CONTACT VOICE TELEPHONE: 217-333-4952
(10.7) CONTACT FACSIMILE TELEPHONE:
(10.8) CONTACT ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS: sinclair@sun.sws.uiuc.edu
7.5 METADATA STANDARD NAME: FGDC Content Standards for Digital
     Geospatial Metadata
7.6 METADATA STANDARD VERSION: Version of June 8, 1994