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Title: Land Use Plan, District of Columbia, 1996 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2013-11
  • Coverage: 1996

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Composite map of adopted land use plans. It was published by the Metropollitan Washington Council of Governments in 1996. Scale 1:192,000. 1 in. = 3 miles. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North American Datum 1983, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • District of Columbia
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • planningCadastre
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-78.117725, -76.537541, 39.916967, 38.114089)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-78.117725, -76.537541, 39.916967, 38.114089)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Land Use Plan, District of Columbia, 1996 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3851-g4-1996-w3

Format

GeoTIFF