ASSESSING NEIGHBORHOODS
Status: Completed in November 1996
SOURCE/CONVERSION METHODOLOGY
This data layer is developed by Brookline GIS staff, based upon the existing paper map of the neighborhood boundaries from the Assessor’s Office, Boston Edison Company’s street centerline data layer, and the parcels data layer developed by Camp Dresser and McKee, Inc. (CDM).
COVERAGE NAME
NEIGHBOR
FEATURE TYPE
POLYGONS
ATTRIBUTES
Feature Attribute Table Organization (neighbor.pat):
| Col | Description | Item name | Width | Output Width | Type* | No. of Dec. | Alt. name |
Indexed? |
| 1 | ARC/INFO | AREA | 8 | 18 | F | 5 | ||
| 9 | INTERNAL | PERIMETER | 8 | 18 | F | 5 | ||
| 17 | ITEMS | NEIGHBOR# | 4 | 5 | B | |||
| 21 | | | NEIGHBOR-ID | 4 | 5 | B | |||
| 25 | ASSESSOR’S NEIGHBORHOOD NUMBERS | NEIGHBORHOOD | 4 | 12 | F | 3 |
* See Appendix G for detail
Sample record from the polygon attribute table of the neighbor datalayer:
COORDINATE SYSTEM3
AREA= 6485088.66144
PERIMETER= 13857.16735
NEIGHBOR#= 3
NEIGHBOR-ID= 1
NEIGHBORHOODS= 107
Massachusetts State Plane North America Datum (NAD) 83 Feet