Railroads

General description

This dataset is an excerpt from the Digital Chart of the World and was prepared by Grid Arendal, Norway, as part of INSROP Project I.3.1 in 1994. The dataset is in scale 1:1 mill. See http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ for more information about the Digital Chart of the World.

Technical description

Shapefile name: rrline.shp

Path: <NSR_DATA>\infrastr\dcw_1_in

GeoDataset type: Shapefile with PolyLine features.

Coordinate system: Latitude/longitude in decimal degrees

* Railroads

2242 PolyLines, 4 descriptive fields.

Fields: [<Name>] -- <Alias> (type of field)

[In09line_] -- "In09line_" (Numeric, no decimals)

[In09line_i] -- "In09line_i" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Rrlntype] -- "Railroad type" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Rrlnstat] -- "Railroad status" (Numeric, no decimals)