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Title: Caltrans Regions, 2015

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Dates

  • Issued: 2014
  • Coverage: 2015

Publishers

  • California. Department of Transportation

Summary

This polygon shapefile represents California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) regions in California as of 2015. Caltrans has 12 districts and 2 regions as high-level management areas. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data created by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. California Department of Transportation. (2015). Caltrans Regions, 2015. California Department of Transportation. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/zv155kt6545. The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • California
  • Traffic engineering
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-124.482003, -117.616195, 42.009517, 34.326922)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-124.482003, -117.616195, 42.009517, 34.326922)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

California. Department of Transportation. Caltrans Regions, 2015. California. Department of Transportation. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/zv155kt6545

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English