Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines

Sections: 

(1) Identification   (2) Data Quality   (3) Spatial Data Organization   (4) Spatial Reference   (5) Entities and Attributes   (6) Distribution   (7) Metadata Reference

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Spatial Reference Information

FGDC Identifier	Minnesota State Element Name	Field Type	Domain	Description
Modification of 4.1.2.2.1	Horizontal Coordinate Scheme	text	"geographic  (Lat. Long.)"  "UTM"  "State Plane"  "County Coordinates"  "User Specified Projection"  "Other"	The scheme used to define horizontal coordinates as depicted by the domain choices.
4.1.4.2	Ellipsoid	text	"Clarke 1866"  "GRS80"  free text	Identification given to establish representation of the Earth's shape.
4.1.4.1	Horizontal Datum	text	"NAD27"  "NAD83"  "NAD83 (96)"	The datum used in the horizontal coordinate system. "NAD83 (96)" represents the 1996 adjustment based on the High Accuracy Reference Network (HARN).
4.1.2.4.4 (partially)	Horizontal Units	text	"meters" "feet"  "decimal degrees"  free text	The horizontal distance units. User may specify additional units not listed in domain. NOTE: "feet" is assumed to be U.S. survey feet.
4.1.2.4.3.1	Distance Resolution	text	free text	The minimum distance measurable between two points, expressed in distance units of measure (e.g. the minimum allowable distance between two verticies).
4.2.1.1	Altitude Datum	text	"NGVD29" "NAVD88"  "not applicable"  free text	The level surface of reference from which altitudes are measured, if applicable. NGVD29 = National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; NAVD88 = North American Vertical Datum of 1988.
4.2.1.3	Altitude Units	text	"meters" "feet"  free text	Units in which altitudes are measured.
4.2.2.1	Depth Datum	text	"local surface"  "mean low water"  "mean high water"  "mean sea level"  "land survey datum"  "not applicable"  free text	The surface of reference from which depths are measured, if applicable.
4.2.2.3	Depth Units	text	"meters" "feet"  free text	Units in which depths are measured.
Raster Data Only
4.1.2.4.2.1	Cell Width	real	> 0.0	The column width of a raster cell expressed in distance units of measure.
4.1.2.4.2.2	Cell Height	real	> 0.0	The row height of a raster cell expressed in distance units of measure.

 
  

If Geographic
4.1.1.1	Latitude Resolution	real	> 0.0	The minimum difference between two adjacent latitude values expressed in Geographic Coordinates Units of measure.
4.1.1.2	Longitude Resolution	real	> 0.0	The minimum difference between two adjacent longitude values expressed in Geographic Coordinates Units of measure.

 
 

If UTM
4.1.2.2.2.1	UTM Zone Number	text	14, 15, 15E, 16, free text	Identifier for the UTM zone number(s) used. "15E" represents zone 15 extended to cover the entire state of Minnesota.
No FGDC Equivalent	Coordinate Offsets or Adjustments	text	free text	An explanation of the magnitude, direction, etc. of any coordinate shifts or adjustments. For example "subtracted 4,700,000 from the Y coordinate."

 
 

If State Plane
4.1.2.2.4.1	SPCS Zone Identifier	integer	2201,  2202,  2203	The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) four-digit numeric code for the State Plane Coordinate Systems. In Minnesota, North = 2201, Central = 2202, and South = 2203.
No FGDC Equivalent	Coordinate Offsets or Adjustments	text	free text	An explanation of the magnitude, direction, etc. of any coordinate shifts or adjustments.

 


If County Coordinates
No FGDC Equivalent	County Coordinate Zone Identifier	integer	1-67	The county coordinate zone identifier number from The Minnesota County Coordinate System, A User's Handbook by Ken Whitehorn, Itasca Co. Surveyor,  published by Precision Measuring Systems, 1998.  Note: Some coordinate zones include multiple counties and some large counties have multiple coordinate zones.  Note: These coordinate IDs are not the same as county IDs. Note: A list of the codes is available in the DataLogr help menus.
No FGDC Equivalent	Coordinate Offsets or Adjustments	text	free text	An explanation of the magnitude, direction, etc. of any coordinate shifts or adjustments.

 


If User Specified Projection
4.1.2.1.1	Map Projection Name	text	free text	Name of the map projection.
4.1.2.1.2  (FGDC compound)	Map Projection Parameters	text	free text	List the actual projection parameters reflected in the coordinate system used. (See FGDC standards for specific information.)

 


If Other
4.1.2.1.3	Other Coordinate System's Definition	text	free text	Explain the reference frame or system from which linear or angular quantities are measured and assigned to the position that a point occupies.

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