DATA DICTIONARY

THIS IS A SAMPLE DATA DICTIONARY FOR GGR462S - NOT ALL FIELDS ARE COMPLETE

Name:   hmsoil
Description:  Soils - MTRCA (Metro Toronto Regional Conservation Authority)
Storage Format:  Arciew Shape File, ARC/INFO Version 7 Export file (uncompressed)
Release Instructions:  See Custodian

Notes: Probably conglomeration of a number of soil definition strategies. Although the layer is meant to be consistent, this fact should be noted when it is used.

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Temporal Information

Start Date           unknown
End Date            unknown
Duration             unknown

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Capture Information

Capture Date              unknown, probably over long period
Capture Scale            unknown
Capture History          unknown
Data Origin                 MTRCA
Disk Space             3.7 Mb (Shape File) 4.1 Mb (Export File)
Feature Type          poly
Feature Count        817

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Spatial Reference

Spatial Extent         Humber River Watershed, Lower Left (572900,4828400),
                               Upper Right (630500,4875700)
Reference System Name        UTM
Zone                         17
Datum                        NAD27
Spheroid                     Clarke66

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Data Quality

Positional Accuracy          unknown
Attribute Accuracy           100% based on MTRCA criteria
Completeness                 Humber Watershed, missing small section in NW
Upper Limit Viewing Scale    n/a
Lower Limit Viewing Scale    n/a

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Spatial Features

Polygon Features         Soil map polygons.
Line Features              None
Point Features             None.

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Attributes

Area                      polygon area (m2)
Perimeter                polygon perimeter (m)  
PEELSOIL_  
PEELSOIL_I
HECTARES
SYMBOL                 3 letter symbol for the soil name
EXTENT
NAME_1                  Name of the kind of soil
ATEX_1                  Texture description, eg sandy-loam
DRAIN_1                 Description of how well drained the soil is based on a drainage survey
TOPO_1
CLI_MU
CLI_1
CLI_2
CLI
SUBGR_1
SUBGR_2
SUBGROUP
YORKSOIL_
YORKSOIL_I
DEP_1
PHASE_1
REAC_1