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NGDA theme(s)
Governmental Units, and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries
Maintenance Authority
Scope
The purpose of the Geographic Information Framework Data Content
Standard, Part 5: Governmental Unit and Other Geographic Area
Boundaries is to establish the content requirements for the collection
and interchange of governmental units and other geographic area
boundary data and to facilitate the maintenance and use of that
information.
This part identifies and defines the terminology, encoding schema,
and data components required to describe a geographic area and its
boundary.
This part applies to the following types of geographic
areas:
- Governmental units
- Administrative units
- Statistical units
- Other units
For the purposes of this part, these types of geographic areas are
defined as follows:
- A governmental unit is a geographic area with legally defined boundaries established under Federal, Tribal, State, or local law, and with the authority to elect or appoint officials and raise revenues through taxes.
- An administrative unit is a geographic area established by rule or regulation of a legislative, executive, or judicial governmental authority, a non-profit organization, or private industry for the execution of some function.
- A statistical unit is a geographic area defined for the collection, tabulation, and/or publication of demographic, and/or other statistical data.
- Other units are those geographic areas that are not governmental units, administrative units, or statistical units as defined herein, and are not areas that are defined or described in other framework parts.
This part specifies the content and organization necessary for the
successful interchange of geographic area boundary data. This part does
not specify a particular structure for interchange of boundary data.
Further, data producers and users may structure geographic area
boundary data in any format for their internal use.
Comments
Census recommended re-affirmation of Part 5