Intentionally excluded from this dataset are government run institutions (e.g. schools, colleges, prisons, and libraries). Also excluded are state capitol buildings.
State owned or leased buildings whose primary purpose is not to house state offices have also been intentionally excluded from this dataset. Examples of these include "Salt Domes", "Park Shelters", and "Highway Garages".
All entities that have been verified to have no building name, have had their [NAME] attribute set to "NO NAME". If the record in the original source data had no building name and TGS was unable to verify the building name, the [NAME] attribute was set to "UNKNOWN".
All phone numbers in this dataset have been verified by TGS to be the main phone for the building. If the building was verified not to have a main phone number, the [AREA] and [PHONE] fields have been left blank.
All entities located on military bases have been removed from this dataset.
The text fields in this dataset have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results.
All diacritics (e.g., the German umlaut or the Spanish tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database systems that may not support diacritics.
The currentness of this dataset is indicated by the [CONTDATE] attribute. Based upon this attribute, the oldest record dates from 2007/12/04 and the newest record dates from 2007/12/11.
Use Cases: Use cases describe how the data may be used and help to define and clarify requirements.
1) There has been a natural or manmade disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake. An assessment of what State property may be affected, and what State services may be impacted needs to be made.
2) There is a predicted natural disaster, such as a hurricane. An assessment of what State property, personnel and services might be in the disaster's predicted footprint or path needs to be made. Preparations need to be made to evacuate personnel, secure property, and arrange for alternate methods of delivering the critical services that may be affected.
3) There has been a terrorist threat against State property and/or personnel. Steps need to be taken to identify what is being threatened, counter the threat, and protect threatened personnel and property. Additional property may be impacted due to its proximity to the threatened property, or the threat may contain only a general spatial reference, and the spatial component of this dataset may need to be used to identify the threatened property.
TGS PinPoint v1.10.2
Metadata written using TKME by Peter N. Schweitzer (U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 22092) version 2.9.17 <http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/>
Metadata tested for compliance to FGDC-STD-001-1998 and converted to HTML using MP version 2.8.25 by Peter N. Schweitzer (U.S. Geological Survey) <http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/>
All records with a [GEOHOW] = "MANUAL" had the following checks performed on them.
ID Check: The [ID] attribute is not blank and each of its values is unique.
Coordinate Check: Coordinates are not null or zero and the x and y fields match the shape.
Basic Address Check: Physical addresses were verified to be non blank and to not be a "PO Box", "General Delivery", "Highway Contract", or "Rural Route" address.
Highway Address without Type Check: Physical addresses containing the word "Highway" or "Route" were verified to also contain a type designator such as "State", "US", or "County", if one actually exists for the highway or route. These type designators are often missing from addresses, leading to confusion if more than one "Highway" of the given number exists in an area.
Basic Name Check: Entity name is not blank, is not the same as entity city, and has a minimum of 2 characters. Name does not contain punctuation characters that can interfere with database operations, such as " (quote) and * (asterisk).
Basic Phone Check: All phone numbers (including the area code) are ten (10) numeric digits. Alphabetic characters have been converted to the corresponding numeric digit.
City Check: Entity city is not blank and is found in the named places file within 25 miles.
County FIPS to State Compare Check: The county represented by the tabular FIPS Code attribute is actually in the state specified by the state attribute.
County Name to State Compare Check: The county represented by the tabular county name attribute is actually in the state specified by the state attribute.
Phone Number Format Check: Phone numbers (including area code) were verified to be formatted as nnn-nnn-nnnn.
NPA_NXX Check: Area codes (sometimes called "Number Planning Areas", or NPA's) and central office codes (sometimes known as exchanges, or NXX's) were validated against data from the North American Number Planning Administration (NANPA). In some cases, NPA-NXX combinations did not show up in the NANPA data but were verified to work.
Area Code Distance Check: Area code (NPA) is valid and is within its area code boundary.
Zip Code Check: The zip code is five (5) or nine (9) numeric digits, is listed in the postal database, is in the same state as indicated by the entity's [STATE] attribute, and is not a PO Box only zip code.
Zip City Check: The entity's zip code and its city were verified to match according to the USPS Address Information System (AIS).
Collocation Check: Entities with different addresses must not share the exact same geospatial location.
Geographic Spell Check: Words that appear in the entity name were checked against a standard English word list (and Spanish word list for entities in Puerto Rico). Words not appearing in these standard word lists were then checked against names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) of geographic features that are located within 25 miles of the entity. Proper names were manually reviewed for correct spelling.
Initially, excluded from this dataset are government run institutions (e.g. schools, colleges, prisons, and libraries). Also excluded are state capitol buildings.
State owned or leased buildings whose primary purpose is not to house state offices have also been intentionally excluded from this dataset. Examples of these include "Salt Domes", "Park Shelters", and "Highway Garages".
1) Verified name, physical address, and phone numbers by contacting the entity or an authority responsible for the entity.
2) Determined or verified the geospatial location for the entity through contact with entity or authority responsible for entity. Entities were asked to describe their geospatial location relative to land marks visible in ortho imagery.
3) During PinPointing, TGS technicians looked for additional entitles to add to the dataset based upon the locations of the headquarters of cabinet level state agencies.
4) Every entity PinPointed during this update was reviewed by a TGS QC Technician. QC technicians are trained to look for inconsistencies within the data and between the data and reference sources, such as ortho imagery. Where inconsistencies exist, the TGS QC technician re-verified the information by contacting the entity.
5) All of the entities that were PinPointed during this update were examined as an aggregate (i.e., not every record was examined individually) by a TGS QC2 technician. The automated checks described above and in the Attribute_Accuracy_Report were used to find any inconsistencies that remained in the data. If necessary, information was re-verified.
6) County name and county FIPS codes were assigned through a spatial join.
7) Four (4) digit United States Postal Service (USPS) zip code extensions were assigned based upon the USPS Address Information System (AIS).
8) All text fields were set to all upper case.
9) Leading and trailing spaces were trimmed from all text fields.
10) Non printable and diacritic characters were removed from all text fields.
Sometimes an entity may report a city that is not accepted by the USPS, and although TGS has tried to replace those cities with an acceptable alternative, some of them may remain in this dataset.
NAICS Descriptions (and NAICS Codes) have been assigned based upon the entity's primary function, regardless of the function that qualified it to be included in this dataset.
Some of the values in this attribute have not been verified by TGS.