MASSACHUSETTS SENATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS
Status: Obtained 1996,data completed 1995.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The State Senate district boundaries as defined by chapter 274 0f the Acts of 1993.
SOURCE/CONVERSION METHODOLOGY
This datalayer is obtained from MassGIS. Election Data Services, Inc. (Washington, DC) produced the coverage under contract to the Massachusetts Senate. Coastline was appended to the coverage by Applied Geographics (Boston, MA) with additional editing completed by MassGIS. The datalayer was created to produce the Massachusetts State Senate Legislative Districts Map dated April 7th, 1994.
COVERAGE NAME
SENATE93
FEATURE TYPE
POLYGONS
ATTRIBUTES
Polygon Attributes Table
| COLUMN | ITEM NAME | WIDTH | OUTPUT | TYPE | N.DEC | ALTERNATE NAME |
| 1 | AREA | 4 | 12 | F | 3 | |
| 5 | PERIMETER | 4 | 12 | F | 3 | |
| 9 | SENATE93# | 4 | 5 | B | ||
| 13 | SENATE93-ID | 4 | 5 | B | ||
| 17 | NAME | 64 | 64 | C | ||
| 81 | DIST-NUM | 10 | 10 | I | ||
| 91 | COLOR | 2 | 3 | I | ||
| 93 | COLOR | 4 | 4 | I | ||
| 97 | LABEL | 3 | 3 | I | ||
| 100 | SENATORS | 40 | 40 | C | ||
| 140 | DIST-NAME | 40 | 40 | C | ||
**REDEFINED |
ITEMS** | |||||
| 22 | DIST-NUMB | 10 | 10 | I |
Sample record from the SEANATE polygon attribute table:
4
AREA 5732001.500
PERIMETER 10273.559
SENATE93# 4
SENATE93-ID 4
NAME
DIST-NUM 8
COLOR 85
COLORS 47
LABEL 1
COORDINATE SYSTEMS
Massachusetts State Plane North America Datum (NAD) 83 Feet