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Title: USA (National Highway Planning Network (point), 2005)

• FHWA

Dates

• Issued: January 01, 2008
• Coverage: August 01, 2005
• Coverage: 2005

Publishers

• U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Summary

The National Highway Planning Network is a comprehensive network database of the nation's major highway system. It consists of the nation's highways comprised of Rural Arterials, Urban Principal Arterials and all National Highway System routes. The data set covers the 48 contiguous States plus the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The nominal scale of the data set is 1:100,000 with a maximal positional error of ±80 meters.

Subjects

• Location
• Transportation
• United States
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-176.763993, -65.593941, 71.316994, 17.934389)
• Geometry: BBOX (-176.763993, -65.593941, 71.316994, 17.934389)

Provider

GIS Lab, MIT Libraries

Rights

• Access rights: Public
• The NHPN Version 2005.08 database, or any portion thereof, can be freely distributed as long as this metadata entry is included with each distribution. The original metadata entry cannot be modified or deleted from any data transfer.

Citation

FHWA. USA (National Highway Planning Network (point), 2005). U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Point data. https://geodata.libraries.mit.edu/record/gismit:US_P2HIWAYSPOINT_2005

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• eng