PLACES (COMMUNITY 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 community neighborhood names from the Planning Department, Boston Edison Company’s street centerline data layer, and the parcels data layer developed by Camp Dresser and McKee, Inc. (CDM).
COVERAGE NAME
PLACES
FEATURE TYPE
POINTS
ATTRIBUTES
Feature Attribute Table Organization (places.pat):
Arc: items places.pat
| COLUMN | ITEM NAME | WIDTH | OUTPUT | TYPE | N.DEC | ALTERNATE NAME | INDEXED? |
| 1 | AREA | 8 | 18 | F | 5 | - | |
| 9 | PERIMETER | 8 | 18 | F | 5 | - | |
| 17 | PLACES | 4 | 5 | B | - | - | |
| 21 | PLACES-ID | 4 | 5 | B | - | - | |
| 25 | NEIGH_NAME | 20 | 20 | C | - | - |
* See Appendix G for detail
Sample record from the point attribute table of the places datalayer:
1
AREA = 0.00000
PERIMETER = 0.00000
PLACES# = 1
PLACES-ID = 1
NEIGH_NAME = COTTAGE FARM
COORDINATE SYSTEM
Massachusetts State Plane North America Datum (NAD) 83 Feet