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Veracious geospatial vector data for use in SNAP tools.
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Add AK boroughs and census areas #98

Closed charparr closed 2 years ago

charparr commented 2 years ago

This PR adds 30 features split across two shapefiles and boundaries sub-directories. Together, these represent the county-level equivalents for Alaska. All geometries are verified to be valid.

The boroughs contain 11 boroughs, excluding the "Unorganized Boroughs" polygons. boros

The census_areas contain 19 census areas that compose the Unorganized Borough. akcensusareas

The CONTENTS.MD documentation files have been updated as well.

These polygons are EPSG 3338 and retain the typical polygon data model we've prescribed for data cookie cutters used by the API - there is a unique alphanumeric index (id), a name, and geometry.

For these data I've retained one more field from the source data - the Federal Information Processing Standard aka FIPS code. We do not *need this information but it seems worth retaining as it costs nothing and may be a useful join basis for other information of some kind.

To test this PR grab the two new shapefiles and check 'em out in QGIS. Do the attribute tables appear correct? Do they past the eyeball test.

MikeDelue commented 2 years ago

Pulled the .shps and looks good to go here. Good call retaining FIPS code. I've used these often in the past. No reason not to retain them.

Not merging them in the interest of using the merge process as part of cross-training planned for 2022-08-29