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Title: Discovery Bay and Rio Bueno (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2003
  • Coverage: 2003

Publishers

  • Land Info (Firm)

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of a portion of a scanned nautical chart titled "West Indies, plans on the northwest coast of Jamaica" originally published by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in 2003. This layer is 1 of 2 parts representing the original source sheet map. Map no. 26122. Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency. (2003). Discovery Bay and Rio Bueno (Raster Image). LandInfo. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nz838ph3403 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Jamaica
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Harbors
  • Navigation
  • Imagery and Base Maps
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-77.4673672, -77.3959774, 18.4917002, 18.4555913)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-77.4673672, -77.3959774, 18.4917002, 18.4555913)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Land Info (Firm), United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Discovery Bay and Rio Bueno (Raster Image). Land Info (Firm). Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/nz838ph3403

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

  • English