Keywords

Theme: Councilmanic, Districts

Place: Prince George's County, Maryland

Description

Abstract

Councilmanic Districts in Prince George's County, Maryland

Purpose

The layer represents the boundaries of the nine councilmanic districts in Prince George's County. While this coverage is maintained by the Prince George's County GIS Section, the boundaries are defined and their representation approved by the Board of Elections. This layer was approved on October 17, 2002 and is accurate to 1:2,400.

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Status of the data

Complete
Data update frequency: None planned

Time period for which the data is relevant

Date and time: 20111205 at time 000000

Description:

publication date

Publication Information

Date and time: unpublished material

Contact

Name: GIS Supervisor

Title: GIS Supervisor

Organization: The Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission - Prince George's County

Phone: (301) 952-3108

email: **NO_SPAM**ppd-gis@ppd.mncppc.org

Hours of Operation: 9AM - 5PM

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Constraints on accessing and using the data

Access constraints: http://www.pgplanning.org/Resources/Tools_On-line/Mapping_Tools/Digital_Data_Price_Schedule.htm

Use constraints:

http://www.pgplanning.org/Assets/Planning/Planning+Resource/GIS+Tool/Data+Lease+Agreement.pdf

Details about this document

Contents last updated: 20131216

Contents last reviewed: As needed

Standards used to create this document

Standard name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Standard version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Time convention used in this document: local time

Horizontal coordinate system

Details

Map Projection Name: NAD 1983 StatePlane Maryland FIPS 1900 Feet

Standard Parallel: 38.3
Standard Parallel: 39.45
Longitude of Central Meridian: -77.0
Latitude of Projection Origin: 37.66666666666666
False Easting: 1312333.333333333
False Northing: 0.0

Planar Coordinate Information

Planar Distance Units: Foot_US

Coordinate Encoding Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate Representation

Abscissa Resolution: 0.00025600000023841865

Ordinate Resolution: 0.00025600000023841865

Geodetic Model

Horizontal Datum Name: D North American 1983

Ellipsoid Name: GRS 1980

Semi-major Axis: 6378137.0

Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257222101

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Bounding coordinates

Horizontal

In decimal degrees

West: -77.077514

East: -76.668431

North: 39.131186

South: 38.539300

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Lineage

Feature and Attribute Updates

Update 1

Edit Description: Councilmember information updated based on election results.
Date Updated: 20101209

Update 2

Edit Description: Updated email addresses of new council members.
Date Updated: 20101213

Update 3

Edit Description: Council name for district 6 changed from Leslie E. Johnson to Derrick Leon Davis.
Date Updated: 20111205

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Spatial data description

Vector data information

SDTS description

Feature class: SDTS feature type, feature count

Feature class: GT-polygon composed of chains, 9

Details for ARCDBA.Councilmanic_District_Poly

Attributes

OBJECTID

Definition:

Internal feature number.

Definition Source:

ESRI

DISTRICT_NUMBER

Definition:

Unique district number

DAMS_LINK

Definition:

Required to support GIS Update button in DAMS

COUNCILMEMBER_NAME

Definition:

Name of council member

POLITICAL_PARTY

Definition:

Political party

TELEPHONE

Definition:

Telephone number

EMAIL_ADDRESS

Definition:

Email address

ACREAGE

SHAPE

Definition:

Feature geometry.

Definition Source:

ESRI

SHAPE.AREA

SHAPE.LEN