Connecticut Senate Districts is a 1:100,000-scale, polygon feature-based layer that defines the Reapportionment of Connecticut Senate District boundaries as reflected in the State Senate Redistricting Plan 2011 for the State of Connecticut. Attribute information is comprised of codes that identify individual Senate Districts.
Connecticut Senate Districts is not intended for maps printed at map scales greater or more detailed than 1:100,000 scale (1 inch = 1.578 mile).
For additional information, contact the Connecticut General Assembly.
Senate Redistricting Plan date
No restrictions or legal prerequisites for using the data. The data is suitable for use at appropriate scale, and is not intended for maps printed at scales greater or more detailed than 1:100,000 scale (1 inch = 1.578 mile). Although this data set has been used by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as to the accuracy of the data and or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in the use of these data or related materials. The user assumes the entire risk related to the use of these data. Once the data is distributed to the user, modifications made to the data by the user should be noted in the metadata. When printing this data on a map or using it in a software application, analysis, or report, please acknowledge the State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as the source for this information. For example, include the following data source description when printing this layer on a map: Senate Districts - From the Connecticut Senate Districts layer, compiled and published by CT General Assembly and CT DEEP. Source map scale is 1:100,000.
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All attributes have valid values.
Polygon features conform to the following topological rules. Polygons are single part. There are no duplicate polygons. Polygons do not self overlap. Polygons do not overlap other polygons. It is not known whether automated procedures or other software tests or topology rules were performed to guarantee desired topology other than visual inspection.
The data is complete and reflects the 2011 Senate District boundaries for the State of Connecticut at 1:100,000 scale.
The horizontal positional accuracy of this data is unknown.
This data source is a shapefile named senate.shp with district boundaries defined in Geographic Coordinates (latitute and longitude), North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). It was downloaded from the Connecticut State Assembly website, http://www.cga.ct.gov/red201
This data source is a shapefile named Senate_Districts.shp with district boundaries defined in the Connecticut State Plane Coordinate System, NAD83. Map units are in feet.
Senate_Districts is in GeoDatabase Feature Class format.
Datum conversion - Using ArcGIS software, the shapefile named senate.shp, with an Nov 30, 2011 file date, was converted from geographic coordinates to the Connecticut State Plane Coordinate System of 1983 (NAD83) to create shapefile named Senate_Districts.shp. Empty fields were also removed.
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Convert to GeoDatabase Feature Class format - Defined new Feature Class named Senate_Districts; and imported the attribute definitions, loaded features and imported metadata from Senate_Districts.shp shapefile. Spatial Reference Properties for Feature Class: Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Connecticut_FIPS_0600_Feet XY Domain MinX: 100000; MaxX: 2247483.645 XY Domain MinY: 200000; MaxY: 2347483.645 Precision: 1000
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Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Senate District
State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly
Senate District Number
State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly
Each Senate District polygon feature is uniquely identified according to its Senate District number, which ranges from 1 to 36.
2011 Senate District maps are available at http://www.cga.ct.gov/red2011
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Although this data set has been used by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as to the accuracy of the data and or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in the use of these data or related materials. The user assumes the entire risk related to the use of these data. Once the data is distributed to the user, modifications made to the data by the user should be noted in the metadata.
The data distributor does not provide custom GIS analysis or mapping services. Data is available in a standard format and may be converted to other formats, projections, coordinate systems, or selected for specific geographic regions by the party receiving the data.
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