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Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Highway Department Roads (December 2002)

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Dates

  • Issued: May 19, 2003
  • Coverage: 2001

Publishers

  • Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS)

Summary

This datalayer represents linework from the USGS 1:100,000 Roads Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) with additional linework from the Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD). Many of the new roads were provided to MHD by municipalities on various town-scale maps. Also, MHD made edits to existing DLG features, in many cases using the MassGIS 1:5,000 digital orthophotography as a backdrop to better spatially position the linework. In addition, this layer includes extensive attribute information maintained by the MHD which has been linked to all features. The layer is up-to-date through 2001. By late 2003 the linework in this datalayer will be replaced with 1:5,000 Road Centerlines that were interpreted as part of the Digital Orthophoto development project. The MHD inventory and street attribute data will then be attached (conflated) to the larger-scale mapping.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Massachusetts
  • Roads
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-73.521297, -69.909337, 42.88831, 41.231483)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-73.521297, -69.909337, 42.88831, 41.231483)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

MassGIS (Office : Mass.), Massachusetts. Highway Dept. MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Highway Department Roads (December 2002). Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS). Line data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-mgismrda2

Format

Shapefile