Railway Network (1:100,000 base scale) (Node) - Data Dictionary
Abstract: The Rail Network is a comprehensive database of the nation's railway system at the 1:100,000 scale. The data set covers all 50 States plus the District of Columbia.
Purpose: The data set provides location and partial attribute information for use in national and regional network analysis applications.
Supplemental Information: At the time of publishing the CD significant updates to the layer were underway. Please check http://gis.fra.dot.gov for the latest version of the dataset.
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FID |
Internal feature number. |
Long Integer representing an object identifier |
| 1 |
Shape |
Feature geometry. |
Geometry |
| 2 |
ID |
The node ID in the network structure. |
Double Precision Floating Point |
| 3 |
LONGITUDE |
The longitude of the point expressed as a signed real number. This value is in decimal degrees with negative values indicating West longitude and positive values indicating East longitude. |
Double Precision Floating Point |
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LATITUDE |
The latitude of the point expressed as a signed real number. This value is in decimal degrees with negative values indicating South latitude and positive values indicating North latitude. |
Double Precision Floating Point |
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FRAIDN |
The FRA assigned ID that is the correspondence identifier between the FRA 1:2Million scale rail network and the FRA 1:100K scale rail network. This number is unique. |
Double Precision Floating Point |
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JUNCTION |
Interchange Code |
Character String |
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SPLC |
Standard Point Location Code. Text field, but code is always numeric. Leading zeros count. |
Character String |
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NAME |
Name of node from atlas or timetable |
Character String |
| 9 |
STATE |
State postal code |
Character String |
| 10 |
STFIPS |
State postal code |
Character String |
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VERSION |
The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed. |
Character String |
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REVISION |
The REVISION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented individually for each record whenever a change is made to one of its fields |
Character String |
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