MAP LAYERS

LAYER NAME:

KECONTOURS_LINE  and KECONTOURS_POLY

AUTHOR/CREATOR:

DCW

ORGANIZATION:

DCW

LINK URL:

http://www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis

CREATION DATE:

1993

MODIFIED BY:

DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT

UNDP_SOMALIA

MODIFICATION DATES:

28/03/2001

ABSTRACT:

Hypsography polygon features are composed of hypsography lines. Because of

inconsistencies on source maps, no attempt was made to reconcile the data with that in other

coverages (e.g., coastlines or drainage area features).

This coverage contains the contours at a 1:1000000 scale. Elevation contours in meters were calculated and range from 0 meters to 5181.6 meters incrementing by 304.8 meters.

CONSTRAINTS:

 

Acknowledgment of DCW, UNDP and ESRI would be appreciated in products derived from these data.

The data should not be used for navigation or for producing maps requiring high geodetic accuracy.

DATASET SIZE :

1,875KB

STATUS

BOUNDING COORDINATES

 EAST:        43.9431                        NORTH:        8.8044

 

WEST:        31.9862                        SOUTH        -5.9274

POSITIONAL ACCURACY:

The absolute horizontal accuracy of the DCW for all features derived from Operational Navigation Charts (ONC) is 2040 meters (6700 feet) rounded to the nearest 5 meters at 90% Circular Error (CE), World Geodetic System (WGS84).

The absolute horizontal accuracy of the DCW for all features derived from Jet Navigation Charts  (JNC) is 4270 meters (14006 feet) at 90% Circular Error.

The absolute vertical accuracy of the DCW is the same as for the original ONC and JNC

 lithographs at 90% Linear Error (LE), Mean Sea Level (MSL)..

COORDINATE SYSTEM:

DECIMAL DEGREES

DATUM:

WGS 84

MAP PROJECTION:

GEOGRAPHICAL

FORMAT

ARCVIEW 3.1, SHAPEFILE.

 

 

TABLES

SOURCE:

DCW

SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE:

1996

CONSTRAINTS:

 

DATASET SIZE:

299KB

ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY:

UNKNOWN

STATUS:

COMPLETE

FIELDS:

SEE ATTACHED FORM

 

CONTACT NAME:

Alex Lugadiru

ORGANIZATION:

DEPHA PROJECT

POSTAL ADDRESS:

c/o UNDP DDC

P.O. BOX 30552,

NAIROBI,

KENYA.

EMAIL ADDRESS:

alex.lugadiru@unep.org

TELEPHONE NO.:

254-020-7624186/95

 

 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) SPATIAL OUTPUT FORMAT

 

 

Field Name and Description

 

 

Field Name

 Field Description

AREA

 Area of the polygon/region in square coverage units.

 Computed.

 Positive real numbers.

 Source: ARCINFO

PERIMETER

 Perimeter of poly/region in coverage units.

 Computed.

 Positive real numbers.

 Source: ARCINFO

HYNETL

 Internal feature number.

 

HYNETL_ID

 User- assigned feature number

 User-defined.

 Integer. 

 Source: ARCINFO

HYLNVAL

 Hypsography line value. The item HYLNVAL contains the elevation value of the contour line expressed as feet above mean sea level. When contour lines for different elevations become coincident, as in areas of steep local relief, only a single carrying contour is shown and is coded for the value for the highest elevation present. Valid contour line codes range from –1,000 feet to 29,000 feet incrementing by 1,000 feet. Boundaries associated with no data areas are assigned a value of 9999.

METERS

 Elevation in meters. Interval = 304.8m(1000ft.)

HYLNTYPE

Line type.

Code Definition

1 = Closed contour.

2 = Depression contour.

3 = Closed contour, approximate.

4 = Carrying contour, coalescence of two or more contour lines with different elevation values.

5 = Depression contour, approximate.

8 = Connector (an arbitrary connector of the contour network, used to define no data or irreconcilable source data areas. These connections were made to establish elevation zones as polygons.

9 = 5-degree by 5-degree tile boundary.

88 = Used in situations during the edgematching process in which a polygon is contained on one ONC mapping module due to compilation differences and the automation module boundary is needed for closure