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LION

Data Format: ESRI 8.3 Personal GeoDatabase; MapInfo Table

File or table name: LION

Coordinate system: Lambert Conformal Conic

Theme keywords: Streets, LION, Roads, Transportation, Highway, Railroad, transportation

Abstract: LION is a single line representation of New York City streets containing address ranges and other information.

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Data Quality Information
Spatial Data Organization Information
Spatial Reference Information
Entity and Attribute Information
Distribution Information
Metadata Reference Information


Identification Information:
Citation:
Originator: City of New York Department of City Planning
Publication Date: April, 2005
Title: LION
Edition: 05A
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Series Information:
Series Name: BYTES of the BIG APPLE
Issue Identification: 05A
Publication Information:
Publication Place: New York City
Publisher: New York City Dept. of City Planning
Online Linkage: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.html
Description:
Abstract:
LION is a single line representation of New York City streets containing address ranges and other information.
Purpose:
The LION file has been maintained as a major component of the Department of City Planning's Geosupport System.
Supplemental Information:
As of Version 05A, Join_ID and TrafDir fields have been added. As of version 04D several of the field names have changed in the ESRI Geodatabase version to more closely match the MapInfo version. FaceName is now called Street. LFrom, LTo, RFrom and RTo are now FromLeft, ToLeft, FromRight and ToRight respectively. IRBoro and ILBoro are now BoroRight and BoroLeft. RZIP and LZIP are now ZipLeft and ZipRight. IB5DSC is now called StreetCode. Type is now FeatureTyp. Also, as of version 04D, FeatureTyp now includes all feature types: 1-9 and W. Special Address Information is now provided in a separate column called SpecAddr in both MapInfo and ESRI. Vehicle Only information has also been moved to its own column: NonPed which also includes additional infomation (see attribute description).
Time Period of Content:
Time Period Information:
Single Date/Time:
Calendar Date: January, 2005
Currentness Reference:
ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: Quarterly
Spatial Domain:
Bounding Coordinates:
West Bounding Coordinate: -74.260380
East Bounding Coordinate: -73.699442
North Bounding Coordinate: 40.917691
South Bounding Coordinate: 40.485808
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: None
Theme Keyword: Streets
Theme Keyword: LION
Theme Keyword: Roads
Theme Keyword: Transportation
Theme Keyword: Highway
Theme Keyword: Railroad
Theme Keyword: transportation
Place:
Place Keyword Thesaurus: None
Place Keyword: New York City
Place Keyword: Manhattan
Place Keyword: Brooklyn
Place Keyword: Bronx
Place Keyword: Queens
Place Keyword: Staten Island
Access Constraints: LION is freely available to the public.
Use Constraints:
The Department of City Planning make no representation as to the accuracy of the information or its suitability for any purposes. The Department and the City disclaim any liability for errors that may be contained herein.
Point of Contact:
Contact Information:
Contact Organization Primary:
Contact Organization: Department of City Planning
Contact Position: BYTES of the BIG APPLE Coordinator
Contact Address:
Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
22 Reade St
City: New York
State or Province: NY
Postal Code: 10007
Country: USA
Contact Voice Telephone: 212.720.3505
Data Set Credit:
Department of City Planning
Security Information:
Native Data Set Environment:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcGIS 8.3; Mapinfo 7.5

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Data Quality Information:
Logical Consistency Report:
Horizontal and vertical topology do not currently exist in LION. A node occurs where ever two or more line segments corss regardless of whether a physical intersection occurs at that point. Duplicate lines may appear where lines are associated with non-addressable place names such as Grand Army Plaza or where alternate street names exist.
Positional Accuracy:
Horizontal Positional Accuracy:
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report:
The Department of City Planning is in the process of conflating (i.e., graphically aligning) the LION and District files to precision aerial photography of the city. Over time, this will increase the spatial accuracy of the files. This release of LION and the District files is at an intermediate stage of conflation.
Lineage:
Source Information:
Source Time Period of Content:
Time Period Information:
Single Date/Time:
Source Currentness Reference:
ground condition

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Spatial Data Organization Information:
Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector
Point and Vector Object Information:
SDTS Terms Description:
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: String
Point and Vector Object Count: 118371

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Spatial Reference Information:
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition:
Planar:
Map Projection:
Map Projection Name: Lambert Conformal Conic
Lambert Conformal Conic:
Standard Parallel: 40.666667
Standard Parallel: 41.033333
Longitude of Central Meridian: -74.000000
Latitude of Projection Origin: 40.166667
False Easting: 984250.000000
False Northing: 0.000000
Planar Coordinate Information:
Planar Coordinate Encoding Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate Representation:
Abscissa Resolution: 0.000256
Ordinate Resolution: 0.000256
Planar Distance Units: survey feet
Geodetic Model:
Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257222
Vertical Coordinate System Definition:
Altitude System Definition:
Altitude Resolution: 1.000000
Altitude Encoding Method: Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

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Entity and Attribute Information:
Detailed Description:
Entity Type:
Entity Type Label: LION
Entity Type Definition:
*Attribute in ESRI GeoDatabase Only; **Attribute in MapInfo Table Only
Attribute:
Attribute Label: Street
Attribute Definition:
Street name used for labeling (in MapInfo and ESRI versions) and geocoding (in MapInfo Version).
Attribute:
Attribute Label: FromLeft
Attribute Definition:
Left and right are defined relative to a street segment's direction. For streets that have addresses, the direction of a DCPLION streeet segment is determined by the direction of increasing address numbers. Note that this direction is unrelated to the street's traffic direction or its orientation relative to the points of the compass. The direction of streets with out address numbers, as well as non-street features, is assigned arbitrarily, but is consistent within the street feature. Direction can usually be determined by observing which way the SeqNum increases.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: ToLeft
Attribute Definition:
Left and right are defined relative to a street segment's direction. For streets that have addresses, the direction of a DCPLION streeet segment is determined by the direction of increasing address numbers. Note that this direction is unrelated to the street's traffic direction or its orientation relative to the points of the compass. The direction of streets with out address numbers, as well as non-street features, is assigned arbitrarily, but is consistent within the street feature. Direction can usually be determined by observing which way the SeqNum increases.
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute Label: FromRight
Attribute Definition:
Left and right are defined relative to a street segment's direction. For streets that have addresses, the direction of a DCPLION streeet segment is determined by the direction of increasing address numbers. Note that this direction is unrelated to the street's traffic direction or its orientation relative to the points of the compass. The direction of streets with out address numbers, as well as non-street features, is assigned arbitrarily, but is consistent within the street feature. Direction can usually be determined by observing which way the SeqNum increases.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: ToRight
Attribute Definition:
Left and right are defined relative to a street segment's direction. For streets that have addresses, the direction of a DCPLION streeet segment is determined by the direction of increasing address numbers. Note that this direction is unrelated to the street's traffic direction or its orientation relative to the points of the compass. The direction of streets with out address numbers, as well as non-street features, is assigned arbitrarily, but is consistent within the street feature. Direction can usually be determined by observing which way the SeqNum increases.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: BoroLeft*
Attribute Definition:
This is a 1-digit code identifying the borough in which the left side of the street segment is located.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 1
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Manhattan
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 2
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
The Bronx
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 3
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Brooklyn
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 4
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Queens
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 5
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Staten Island
Attribute:
Attribute Label: BoroRight*
Attribute Definition:
This is a 1-digit code identifying the borough in which the right side of the street segment is located.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 1
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Manhattan
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 2
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
The Bronx
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 3
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Brooklyn
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 4
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Queens
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 5
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Staten Island
Attribute:
Attribute Label: Boro**
Attribute Definition:
This is a 1-digit code identifying the borough in which the left side of the street segment is located. BORO together with FaceCode and SeqNum define a unique identifier for each record within LION known as the LIONKEY.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 1
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Manhattan
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 2
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
The Bronx
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 3
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Brooklyn
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 4
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Queens
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 5
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Staten Island
Attribute:
Attribute Label: ZipLeft
Attribute Definition:
Contains the five digit postal zip code for the left side of the street segment.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: ZipRight
Attribute Definition:
Contains the five digit postal zip code for the right side of the street segment.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SeqNum
Attribute Definition:
A five digit number assigned sequentially to the street segments within a given face code. The sequence number generally increases with the direction of the street.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: StreetCode
Attribute Definition:
Boro & 5-Digit Street Code
Attribute Domain Values:
Attribute:
Attribute Label: FeatureTyp
Attribute Definition:
Feature Type Code
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 0
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Street other than vehicle only street.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 1
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Railroad
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 2
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Water Edge / Shoreline
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 3
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Census Block Boundary
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 4
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Other Non-Street Feature: Physically existing, addressable boundary, such as a street segment that has been closed off (inaccessible at both ends).
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 5
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Paper Street: This is a legally mapped, but not built street. Such streets are common in areas of Staten Island anticipating development. May exist in all boroughs.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 6
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Private Street: This is a physically existing street which is not owned by the City and is not officially mapped. For example, streets in the Fort Totten and Breezy Point sections of Queens.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 7
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
District Boundary: Physically non-existent boundary for a community district, a police precinct, or a fire company.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 8
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Physical Non-Street Boundary: Physically existing un-addressable boundary (such as a rock wall cemetery edge).
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: 9
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
A paper street that falls along a census block boundary.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: W
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Path, Non-Vehicular, Addressable: This is a walking path. For example, some boardwalks and some walking paths in housing projects.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SpecAddr
Attribute Definition:
Special Address Type Code
Attribute Definition:
SpecialAddress
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: a
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Alternate Address Range: Alternative address ranges for the same street name. This can occur where buildings have been renumbered; old numbers will sometimes remain in use. For example, such usage is common in some Queens neighborhoods, including Far Rockaway, Douglaston, Forest Hills and Ridgewood, where non-hyphenated addresses have been replaced by hyphenated addresses.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: b
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Alternate Street Names: Alternate street names that cannot be handled in the usual way.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: c
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Handles a unique situation along the Brooklyn-Queens border, where Ruby Street on the Brooklyn side of the street is known as 75 Street in Queens. Some Brooklyn residents use 75 Street in their address; however there is another 75 Street in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, far from the Queens border.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: d
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Duplicate Addresses: Duplicate addresses for the same street name. This is primarily restricted to two situations: 1. Hillside Avenue in Queens- there are two Hillside Avenues, one in Far Rockaway, another in Douglaston; and 2. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Manhattan. This street name is an alternative name for both E 125 St. and W 125 St. As a result, there are numerous duplicate addresses along this street.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: e
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Refers to situations in which the name of a neighborhood can serve as an alternate name for all streets in that neighborhood. The two neighborhoods for which this applies are both in the Bronx: Edgewater Park and Harding Park.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: g
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
This is used for names of complexes (e.g., Lincoln Center). Complexes are non-addressable, and are composed of a number of non-addressable place names. Complexes can include individual buildings or parks that are recognized as a grouped entity (e.g., Lincoln Center, Jefferson Houses, City College). "G" records refer to the complex names (Lincoln Center), while the entities within the complex (Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Opera, etc.) are flagged as type "x" records. Because of restrictions imposed by MapInfo's address matching, the user must include a "0" as a house number to successfully match a non-addressable place name. For example, "0 Lincoln Center" will match to the correct side of the street for that location.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: n
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Non-Addressable Place Name: This is used for non-addressable place names. These are place names that cannot be combined with a house number to form an address. Such place names can include individual buildings (e.g., City Hall, Alice Tully Hall), building complexes (e.g., Columbia University, New York Hospital) and large facilities (e.g., Penn Station, LaGuardia Airport). Because of restrictions imposed by MapInfo's address matching, the user must include a "0" as a house number to successfully match a non-addressable plance name. For example, "0 City Hall" will match to the correct side of the street for that location.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: p
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
This is used for out-of-sequence addresses. Such addresses do not follow the logical addressing sequence of the immediately adjacent buildings. For example, address number 62 of a street may exist between addresses 80 and 82, not between 60 and 64 on that blockface (it may also appear on a blockface other than that which contains 60 and 64). Also, the address may be an opposite-parity address, in that its parity (odd/even) is the opposite of the predominant parity on the blockface. For example, address number 62 may appear on the odd side of the street between 63 and 65.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: s
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
This refers to situations in which the break in addresses from one block face to the next along a street involves house number suffixes. These suffix addresses are not included in MapInfo LION. The "s" flag appears with such records to denote that a suffix exists at either the low or high end of the segment's address range.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: v
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
This is used for "vanity addresses’ (i.e., addresses in which the street name refers to a different street than the one on which the referenced building entrance is actually located). For example, 1049 5th Avenue in Manhattan, a vanity address, is actually located on East 86th Street, between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: x
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
This is used for names of non-addressable parts of complexes (not the entire complex name itself, which is flagged as type "g"). These are non-addressable place names grouped with other non-addressable place names to form a larger, non-addressable complex. Such non-addressable place name parts of complexes can include individual buildings or parks (e.g., Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park of Lincoln Center, Jefferson Houses Building 2 of Jefferson Houses, Shepard Hall of City College). Because of restrictions imposed by MapInfo's address matching, the user must include a "0" as a house number to successfully match a non-addressable place name. For example, "0 Alice Tully Hall" will match to the correct side of the street for that location.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: NonPed
Attribute Definition:
NonPedestrian Code.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: D
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Pedestrian accessible, but are excluded by the Department of Education in determining walking routes from a pupil's home to their school.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: V
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Vehicle-only: primarily roadways, inaccessible to pedestrian usage
Attribute:
Attribute Label: FaceCode
Attribute Definition:
A four digit number assigned to any linear geographic feature in LION. This can be either a street or non-street feature (e.g., shoreline railroad tracks).
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SegmentID
Attribute Definition:
A number of up to seven digits that identifies each segment of a street or a non-street feature represented in the LION file. Segment-ID differs from the LION Key in that the former identifies a segment, a geographic entity, whereas the latter identifies a record in the LION file. In the case of a segment lying along a borough boundary, say one that lies along the Brooklyn-Queens border, both the Brooklyn and Queens DCPLION files will have a record representing that segment; the LION Keys of those two records are distinct, but the Segment-ID's are identical.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: NodeIDFrom
Attribute Definition:
Node identifier at the low address range of the segment.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: NodeIDTo
Attribute Definition:
Node identifier at the high address range of the segment.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: TrafDir
Attribute Definition:
Traffic Direction. Code indicating the flow of traffic relative to address range.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: w
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
With: Traffic flows from low to high house numbers.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: a
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Against: Traffic flows from high to low house numbers.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: t
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Two-Way: Traffic flows from high to low house numbers.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: p
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Pedestrian: No vehicles allowed.
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: blank
Enumerated Domain Value Definition:
Non-street feature.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: PDir
Attribute Definition:
Address prefix direction. Part 1 of 5 of normalized street name used for geocoding purposes.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: PType
Attribute Definition:
Address prefix type. Part 2 of 5 of normalized street name used for geocoding purposes.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SName
Attribute Definition:
Address street name. Part 3 of 5 of normalized street name used for geocoding purposes.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SType
Attribute Definition:
Address suffix street type. Part 4 of 5 of normalized street name used for geocoding purposes.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SDir
Attribute Definition:
Address suffix direction. Part 5 of 5 of normalized street name used for geocoding purposes.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: Join_ID
Attribute Definition:
Identification field used to link LION feature class with Alternative Names table during a geocoding operation.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SHAPE
Attribute Definition:
Feature geometry.
Attribute Definition Source:
ESRI
Attribute Domain Values:
Unrepresentable Domain:
Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: OBJECTID
Attribute Definition:
Internal feature number.
Attribute Definition Source:
ESRI
Attribute Domain Values:
Unrepresentable Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: SHAPE_LENGTH
Attribute Definition:
Length of feature in internal units.
Attribute Definition Source:
ESRI
Attribute Domain Values:
Unrepresentable Domain:
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

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Distribution Information:
Distributor:
Contact Information:
Contact Organization Primary:
Contact Organization: New York City Dept. of City Planning
Contact Address:
Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
22 Reade St
City: New York
State or Province: NY
Postal Code: 10007
Country: USA
Resource Description: Downloadable Data
Standard Order Process:
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Metadata Reference Information:
Metadata Date: 20050509
Metadata Contact:
Contact Information:
Contact Person Primary:
Contact Organization: Department of City Planning
Contact Position: BYTES of the BIG APPLE Coordinator
Contact Address:
Address Type: mailing and physical address
City: New York
State or Province: NY
Postal Code: 10007
Contact Voice Telephone: 212.720.3505
Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Time Convention: local time
Metadata Extensions:
Online Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
Profile Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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