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Public School Locations Wisconsin, 2019
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Public School Locations Wisconsin, 2019
- Originator
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Creation Date
- 2019-03-15
- Publication Date
- 2019-03-15
- Edition
- 1.0
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide
- Abstract
- [This dataset includes point location data for public schools in Wisconsin in 2019. The points are placed on or near each school building's centroid. Out of the 2260 schools listed in the attribute table, 2216 have a physical location while 44 are completely virtual campuses. School data was pulled from the Department of Public Instruction's Wisconsin Public School Directory on January 15, 2019.]
- Purpose
- This data is intended for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [This point layer contains location information for public schools (including non-district charters) in the state of Wisconsin 2019-2020.]
- Supplemental Information
- Augmented original metadata with UW-Madison specific elements. Archived dataset at UW-Madison.
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2019-03-26T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.902428
- East
- -86.84909
- North
- 46.818066
- South
- 42.468581
- ISO Topic Category
- location
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Theme Keyword
-
Point
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- FGDC
- Theme Keyword
-
Education
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- RML
- Theme Keyword
-
Public schools
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- [The layer is intended for your reference use only. It contains the best information the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has to date, but no guarantee of accuracy is made. It should not be used for any land transactions, financial decisions, taxation, surveying, or other similar uses. The DPI is not responsible for data that is misinterpreted or altered in any way. Derived conclusions and analyses generated from this data are not to be considered attributable to the DPI.]
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- annually
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster St.
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-3390
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 6.13(9.2.0)
Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Statement
- Data Source: The Department of Public Instruction's Wisconsin Public Schools Directory (https://dpi.wi.gov/directories). The school data downloaded from the Public Schools Directory was cleaned to ensure proper geocoding of the physical addresses. The addresses were geocoded using the Legislative Technology Services Bureau's geocoding service. This was to get the approximate location of each school. The school building centroid data came from the Microsoft Building Footprint dataset (https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints). Since the building footprint dataset is large and contains no identifying attributes, a subset of the features were extracted as school building candidates from the following process: 1) Features from Wisconsin's V4 Statewide Parcel Data layer (https://www.sco.wisc.edu/parcels/data/) were selected based on the Primary Owner Name field (OWNERNME1). Any parcels whose primary owner attribute contained the wor d 'SCHOOL' were selected. 2) Using ArcMap's Select by Location tool, additional parcels were selected if they contained the geocoded school points or were within a 100 m buffer of those points. 3) Again, using the Select by Location tool, school building candidates were selected from the footprints layer if their centroids were in the selected parcels. These candidates were exported to a new layer. 4) A point layer for the school building candidates was created from the footprint centroids. Using a spatial join, the V4 owner attributes were added for easy reference, Using 2018 NAIP imagery as a backdrop, each geocoded school point was viewed in a GIS and a unique school ID from the geocoded layer was added as a new attribute to the correct building centroid feature. Google Maps was utilized often to confirm the correct location of schools. If a build centroid was not present, a new point feature was placed in the approximate center of the building according to the 2018 NAIP imagery. Once all schools were matched to their building centroids, error-checking was completed on the school building centroids layer before doing a field join to attach the public school data. The attribute table was cleaned up and non-school building features were removed.
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_Public_Schools_2019.zip
- Protocol
- WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
- Name
- GeoData@Wisconsin
- Function
- download
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- point
- Vector Object Count
- 2260
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 97E56B91-FF06-4B2F-BA3F-E083012B7534
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster St.
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-3390
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2019-04-08
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8