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Municipal School Districts

 

Tags
boundaries, society, school district, education, Maine, MEGIS, GeoLibrary


Summary

One of several datasets produced for Maine Department of Education to display the affiliation of municipalities for educational purposes.

Description

Municipal School Districts are a city or town with individual school supervision. A school committee administers the education of all grades in the city or town through a superintendent of schools. The city or town charter usually determines the method of budget approval followed by approval of referendum. In many cities and towns, the City Council or Town Council has final budget approval. Since it is a single municipality, cost sharing is not a factor.

Credits

Credit should always be given to the data source and/or originator when the data is transferred or printed.

Use limitations

Extent

West  -71.147927  East  -66.877375
North  47.362521  South  42.910706

Scale Range
Maximum (zoomed in)  1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out)  1:50,000

ArcGIS Metadata 

Topics and Keywords 

Themes or categories of the resource  society, boundaries


*Content type  Downloadable Data


Theme keywords  boundaries, society

Thesaurus
Title ISO Topic Catagory 19115 - Theme




Citation 

*Title GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu
Creation date 2017-11-07 00:00:00
Publication date 2017-11-07 00:00:00


Presentation formats* digital map
FGDC geospatial presentation format  vector digital data


Citation Contacts 

Responsible party
Organization's name Maine Department of Education (MDOE), Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)
Contact's role  originator


Responsible party
Organization's name Maine Office of GIS
Contact's position GIS Coordinator
Contact's role  resource provider


Contact information
Phone
Voice 207-624-7700

Address
Type postal
Delivery point State House Station #145
City Augusta
Administrative area ME
Postal code 04333
Country US
e-mail addressOIT.Customer-Support@maine.gov



Resource Details 

Dataset languages  English (UNITED STATES)
Dataset character set  utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Status  completed
Spatial representation type* vector


*Processing environment  Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.4.1.5713


Credits
Credit should always be given to the data source and/or originator when the data is transferred or printed.
ArcGIS item properties
*Name GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu
*Location Server=som-sqlclus01-2.som.w2k.state.me.us; Service=sde:sqlserver:som-sqlclus01-2.som.w2k.state.me.us\DOS; Database=GISVIEW; User=MEGIS; Version=dbo.DEFAULT
*Access protocol ArcSDE Connection

Extents 

Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
Extent type  Extent used for searching
*West longitude -71.147927
*East longitude -66.877375
*North latitude 47.362521
*South latitude 42.910706
*Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent in the item's coordinate system
*West longitude 337751.812400
*East longitude 660335.625000
*South latitude 4752815.499700
*North latitude 5245451.000400
*Extent contains the resource Yes

Resource Points of Contact 

Point of contact
Individual's name Charlotte Ellis
Organization's name Maine Department of Education
Contact's position Education Data Manager
Contact's role  resource provider


Contact information
Address
Type postal
City Augusta
Administrative area Maine
Postal code 04333
Country US



Resource Maintenance 

Resource maintenance
Update frequency  annually


Resource Constraints 

Legal constraints
Limitations of use
Users must assume responsibility to determine the usability of this data for their purposes. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems, no warranty expressed or implied is made by MEGIS regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. Neither the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems, nor any of its contributors, is liable for misuse of the data, for damage, for transmission of viruses, or for computer contamination through the distribution of these data sets.

Spatial Reference 

ArcGIS coordinate system
*Type Projected
*Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983
*Projection NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_19N
*Coordinate reference details
Projected coordinate system
Well-known identifier 26919
X origin -5120900
Y origin -9998100
XY scale 10000
Z origin 0
Z scale 1
M origin 0
M scale 1
XY tolerance 0.001
Z tolerance 0.001
M tolerance 0.001
High precision true
Latest well-known identifier 26919
Well-known text PROJCS["NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_19N",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-69.0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0],AUTHORITY["EPSG",26919]]

Reference system identifier
*Value 26919
*Codespace EPSG
*Version 6.13(3.0.1)


Spatial Data Properties 

Vector
*Level of topology for this dataset  geometry only


Geometric objects
Feature class name GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu
*Object type  composite
*Object count 159



ArcGIS Feature Class Properties
Feature class name GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu
*Feature type Simple
*Geometry type Polygon
*Has topology FALSE
*Feature count 159
*Spatial index TRUE
*Linear referencing FALSE



Data Quality 

Lineage 

Process step
When the process occurred 2017-11-07 00:00:00
Description Maine Department of Education provided MEGIS with database table containing Maine school adminstrative units. These tables were then joined to Metwp24 to extract the corresponding polygon data for each unit. The results of the joins and queries were used to create polygon shapefiles of each unit.


Process contact
Organization's name Maine Office of GIS
Contact's position GIS Coordinator
Contact's role  processor


Contact information
Phone
Voice 207-624-7700

Address
Type postal
Delivery point State House Station #145
City Augusta
Administrative area ME
Postal code 04333
Country US





Source data
Resolution of the source data
Scale denominator 24000

Source citation
Title Metwp24


Presentation formats  digital map
FGDC geospatial presentation format  vector digital data


Responsible party
Organization's name Maine Office of GIS
Contact's role  originator


Resource location online
Locationhttp://www.maine.gov/megis/catalog/



Extent of the source data
Description
publication date


Source data
Description Table provided by Dept. of Education containing Maine school administrative units.


Resolution of the source data
Scale denominator 0



Geoprocessing history 

Process
Process name
Date 2015-12-08 14:52:26
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.2\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Conversion Tools.tbx\FeatureClassToFeatureClass
Command issued
FeatureClassToFeatureClass U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final "Database Connections\GISVIEW.MEGIS.sde" Edmsu_new # "TOWN "TOWN" true true false 40 Text 0 0 ,First,#,U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final,TOWN,-1,-1;County "County" true true false 50 Text 0 0 ,First,#,U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final,County,-1,-1;geocode "geocode" true true false 5 Text 0 0 ,First,#,U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final,geocode,-1,-1;SAUName "SAUName" true true false 255 Text 0 0 ,First,#,U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final,SAUName,-1,-1;SAUTType "SAUTType" true true false 255 Text 0 0 ,First,#,U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final,SAUTType,-1,-1;SHAPE_Length "SHAPE_Length" false true true 8 Double 0 0 ,First,#,U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final,SHAPE_Length,-1,-1;SHAPE_Area "SHAPE_Area" false true true 8 Double 0 0 ,First,#,U:\projects\education\school_dist.mdb\admin_units_2015\edmsu_final,SHAPE_Area,-1,-1" #
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Process name
Date 2016-08-23 10:02:36
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\UnregisterAsVersioned
Command issued
UnregisterAsVersioned "Database Connections\GISVIEW.sde\GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu" KEEP_EDIT NO_COMPRESS_DEFAULT
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Process name
Date 2016-08-23 10:03:14
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\UnregisterAsVersioned
Command issued
UnregisterAsVersioned "Database Connections\GISVIEW.sde\GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu" KEEP_EDIT NO_COMPRESS_DEFAULT
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Process name
Date 2016-08-23 10:03:40
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\UnregisterAsVersioned
Command issued
UnregisterAsVersioned "Database Connections\GISVIEW.sde\GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu" KEEP_EDIT NO_COMPRESS_DEFAULT
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Process name
Date 2016-08-23 10:03:58
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\UnregisterAsVersioned
Command issued
UnregisterAsVersioned "Database Connections\GISVIEW.sde\GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu" KEEP_EDIT NO_COMPRESS_DEFAULT
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Process name
Date 2016-08-23 10:04:14
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\UnregisterAsVersioned
Command issued
UnregisterAsVersioned "Database Connections\GISVIEW.sde\GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu" KEEP_EDIT NO_COMPRESS_DEFAULT
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Process name
Date 2016-08-23 11:12:46
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\RegisterAsVersioned
Command issued
RegisterAsVersioned "Database Connections\GISVIEW.sde\GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu" NO_EDITS_TO_BASE
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Process name
Date 2017-11-07 09:29:53
Tool location c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.4\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\Append
Command issued
Append \\w-a1ts-gisprd1.som.w2k.state.me.us\gisprd1gisdata\megis\pro\doe\Sau2017_18\SAU2017_18.gdb\edmsu GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu NO_TEST "TOWN "TOWN" true true false 40 Text 0 0 ,First,#,\\w-a1ts-gisprd1.som.w2k.state.me.us\gisprd1gisdata\megis\pro\doe\Sau2017_18\SAU2017_18.gdb\edmsu,Town,-1,-1;County "County" true true false 50 Text 0 0 ,First,#,\\w-a1ts-gisprd1.som.w2k.state.me.us\gisprd1gisdata\megis\pro\doe\Sau2017_18\SAU2017_18.gdb\edmsu,County,-1,-1;geocode "geocode" true true false 5 Text 0 0 ,First,#,\\w-a1ts-gisprd1.som.w2k.state.me.us\gisprd1gisdata\megis\pro\doe\Sau2017_18\SAU2017_18.gdb\edmsu,Geocode,-1,-1;SAUName "SAUName" true true false 255 Text 0 0 ,First,#,\\w-a1ts-gisprd1.som.w2k.state.me.us\gisprd1gisdata\megis\pro\doe\Sau2017_18\SAU2017_18.gdb\edmsu,SAUName,-1,-1;SAUTType "SAUTType" true true false 255 Text 0 0 ,First,#,\\w-a1ts-gisprd1.som.w2k.state.me.us\gisprd1gisdata\megis\pro\doe\Sau2017_18\SAU2017_18.gdb\edmsu,SAUTType,-1,-1;GlobalID "GlobalID" false false false 38 GlobalID 0 0 ,First,#,\\w-a1ts-gisprd1.som.w2k.state.me.us\gisprd1gisdata\megis\pro\doe\Sau2017_18\SAU2017_18.gdb\edmsu,GlobalID,-1,-1;Shape.STArea() "Shape.STArea()" false false true 0 Double 0 0 ,First,#;Shape.STLength() "Shape.STLength()" false false true 0 Double 0 0 ,First,#" #
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Distribution 

Distributor
Contact information
Organization's name Maine Office of GIS
Contact's position GIS Coordinator
Contact's role  distributor


Contact information
Phone
Voice 207-624-7700

Address
Type postal
Delivery point State House Station #145
City Augusta
Administrative area ME
Postal code 04333
Country US





Distribution format
*Name SDE Feature Class


Fields 

Details for object GISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu 
*Type Feature Class
*Row count 159


Field OBJECTID
 
*Alias OBJECTID
*Data type OID
*Width 4
*Precision 10
*Scale 0
Field description
Internal feature number.
Description source
ESRI
Description of values Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.




Field Shape.STLength()
 
*Alias Shape.STLength()
*Data type Double
*Width 0
*Precision 0
*Scale 0




Field COUNTY
 
*Alias County
*Data type String
*Width 50
*Precision 0
*Scale 0
Field description
Maine county name
Description source
MEGIS


Field geocode
 
*Alias geocode
*Data type String
*Width 5
*Precision 0
*Scale 0




Field SAUName
 
*Alias SAUName
*Data type String
*Width 255
*Precision 0
*Scale 0
Field description
School Administrative Unit Name
Description source
MeDOE


Field SAUTType
 
*Alias SAUTType
*Data type String
*Width 255
*Precision 0
*Scale 0
Field description
School Administrative Unit Type
Description source
MeDOE


Field Shape.STArea()
 
*Alias Shape.STArea()
*Data type Double
*Width 0
*Precision 0
*Scale 0




Field GlobalID
 
*Alias GlobalID
*Data type GlobalID
*Width 38
*Precision 0
*Scale 0




Field TOWN
 
*Alias TOWN
*Data type String
*Width 40
*Precision 0
*Scale 0
Field description
Municipality or reservation name as listed in "Standard Geographic Code for Maine Minor Civil Divisions"
Description source
MEGIS


Field Shape
 
*Alias Shape
*Data type Geometry
*Width 4
*Precision 0
*Scale 0
Field description
Feature geometry.
Description source
ESRI
Description of values Coordinates defining the features.






Overview Description
Entity and Attribute Overview The specific attributes for school administrative units were provided by the Maine Department of Education.


Entity and Attribute Detail Citation The ArcView shapefile and ArcGIS geodatabase formats, commonly used for Maine GIS data, carry default identifiers and attributes that are software generated and/or important for internal recordkeeping. These are listed here to avoid repetition for every layer, and may not be repeated in the attribute descriptions and definitions of each layer. Common software generated identifiers and attributes in Maine GIS data include: FID (feature identifier), Shape (feature geometry), OBJECTID and SHAPE_lengt. In addition, most GIS formats will carry fields for PERIMETER, AREA and/or LENGTH according to feature geometry. These fields are typically available by default, with the units based on coordinate system or projection units of GIS data. Most GIS software packages also provide a means to calculate these values. It is important to test any columns containing PERIMETER, AREA or LENGTH values before using them for analysis purposes. These important values can be carried from format to format and become out-dated. Verify that the values are correct. Also, in your GIS software, please view the properties of data layers for the map units used to calculate these fields, and for the units set for display purposes.




Metadata Details 

Metadata language English (UNITED STATES)
Metadata character set  utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Scope of the data described by the metadata  dataset
Scope name* dataset


*Last update 2017-11-07


ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS 1.0
Metadata style FGDC CSDGM Metadata
Standard or profile used to edit metadata FGDC


Created in ArcGIS for the item 2015-12-08 14:52:24
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2017-11-07 14:42:42


Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2017-11-07 14:42:42


Metadata Contacts 

Metadata contact
Organization's name Maine Office of GIS
Contact's position GIS Coordinator
Contact's role  point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice 207-624-7700

Address
Type postal
Delivery point State House Station #145
City Augusta
Administrative area ME
Postal code 04333
Country US
e-mail addressOIT.Customer-Support@maine.gov



Metadata Maintenance 

Maintenance
Update frequency  annually


FGDC Metadata (read-only) 

Entities and Attributes 

Detailed Description
Entity Type
Entity Type LabelGISVIEW.MEGIS.Edmsu

Attribute
Attribute LabelOBJECTID
Attribute Definition
Internal feature number.
Attribute Definition SourceESRI
Attribute Domain Values
Unrepresentable Domain
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute
Attribute LabelShape.STLength()

Attribute
Attribute LabelCOUNTY
Attribute Definition
Maine county name
Attribute Definition SourceMEGIS

Attribute
Attribute Labelgeocode

Attribute
Attribute LabelSAUName
Attribute Definition
School Administrative Unit Name
Attribute Definition SourceMeDOE

Attribute
Attribute LabelSAUTType
Attribute Definition
School Administrative Unit Type
Attribute Definition SourceMeDOE

Attribute
Attribute LabelShape.STArea()

Attribute
Attribute LabelGlobalID

Attribute
Attribute LabelTOWN
Attribute Definition
Municipality or reservation name as listed in "Standard Geographic Code for Maine Minor Civil Divisions"
Attribute Definition SourceMEGIS

Attribute
Attribute LabelShape
Attribute Definition
Feature geometry.
Attribute Definition SourceESRI
Attribute Domain Values
Unrepresentable Domain
Coordinates defining the features.

Overview Description
Entity and Attribute Overview
                            The specific attributes for school administrative units were provided by the Maine Department of Education.
                          
Entity and Attribute Detail Citation
                            The ArcView shapefile and ArcGIS geodatabase formats, commonly used for Maine GIS data, carry default identifiers and attributes that are software generated and/or important for internal recordkeeping. These are listed here to avoid repetition for every layer, and may not be repeated in the attribute descriptions and definitions of each layer. Common software generated identifiers and attributes in Maine GIS data include: FID (feature identifier), Shape (feature geometry), OBJECTID and SHAPE_lengt. In addition, most GIS formats will carry fields for PERIMETER, AREA and/or LENGTH according to feature geometry. These fields are typically available by default, with the units based on coordinate system or projection units of GIS data. Most GIS software packages also provide a means to calculate these values. It is important to test any columns containing PERIMETER, AREA or LENGTH values before using them for analysis purposes. These important values can be carried from format to format and become out-dated. Verify that the values are correct. Also, in your GIS software, please view the properties of data layers for the map units used to calculate these fields, and for the units set for display purposes.