Identification Information

Title New Mexico State Parks

Date 2009-04-30

Date Type Publication

Cited Responsible Party

Organization Name Data developed by Eleanore Nestlerode, NM State Land Office IT/GIS Analyst, in cooperation with Rob Love, New Mexico State Parks

Role identify

Presentation Form vector digital data

Abstract This dataset provides an initial version of the generalized physical boundaries of New Mexico State Parks, in polygonal form with limited attributes, compiled using available data from a variety of sources. The boundaries have been digitized from AutoCAD drawings and/or from legal descriptions, supplemented by digital orthophotography cross-checking, and adjusted to the GCDB when possible. The dataset will be refined in the future to include other attributes and provide better accuracy.

Purpose This dataset is intended to provide public users with the approximate location of New Mexico State Park boundaries, for use in statewide or regional studies, and is not intended to legally define said boundaries.

Supplemental Information One type of polygon is provided in this public edition: State Parks, which illustrate outlines of state parks and areas of joint management with other agencies. An internal edition exists which also includes types of "Potential" (which illustrate lands which are being considered for inclusion into a state park) and "Internal" (which illustrates park boundary within a polygon which includes that state park and an area of joint management). Parks boundaries reviewed/vetted by State Parks staff, including Cynthia Lovely, Dave Gatterman, Rob Love, and Rob Vadurro. Initial metadata provided by E. Nestlerode, and modified by Rick Koehler, EMNRD ITO GIS Coordinator

Data Set Credit Eleanore Nestlerode, New Mexico State Land Office (primary credit); Rob Love, Cynthia Lovely, and Rob Vadurro, State Parks Division of the State of NM Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Department (EMNRD); Rick Koehler, Information Technology Office of EMNRD.

Status In work

Point of Contact

Individual Name

Organization Name State of New Mexico Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Department

Position Name GIS Coordinator

Role Point of contact

Voice 505-476-3300

Facsimile 505-476-3307

Address

Delivery Point 1220 South St. Francis Drive
City Santa Fe
Administrative Area New Mexico
Postal Code 87505
Country USA

Electronic Mail Address emnrditohelpdesk@state.nm.us rick.koehler@state.nm.us

Maintenance and Update Frequency As needed

Descriptive Keywords NM State Park Boundaries

Access Constraints No access restraints are imposed at this time.

Use Constraints This data shall not be used to define legal boundaries of State Parks, nor to define the limits of jurisdiction or ownership between adjacent property owners. Use of this data implies authors' release from liability as to accuracy of data.

Language English

Topic Category boundaries

Extent

Geographic Bounding Box

West Bound -108.070670740779
East Bound -103.277544724305
North Bound 37.0134613224445
South Bound 31.8116012751232

Temporal Extent

DateTime 2009

Data Quality Information

Attribute Accuracy Report

Report Attributes in this initial version largely consist of the name of the State Park. The names were compared with the names given by State Parks to judge accuracy. One attribute "County", which provided a county name to be associated with each State Park, was eliminated, as the location of a boundary or Park vis-a-vis any particular county can be ascertained by other means, and for the more important reason that several NM State Parks are located across county boundaries, and hence can not be described by a single county attribute. The park names were edited once at EMNRD to reflect the names used by State Parks to refer to each park; there were differences between the name attribute givien by SLO and those used by State Parks (eg., "Bluewater Creek" is actually "Bluewater Lake", "Sugarite" is actually "Sugarite Canyon", etc.).

Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment

Attribute Accuracy Value
Attribute Accuracy Explanation

Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report

Report Tested by visual comparison with the original source materials, orthophotos (1 meter RGB from 2005-6 and other years) and legal descriptions.

Quantitative Horizontal Positional Accuracy Assessment

Horizontal Positional Accuracy Value
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Explanation

Vertical Positional Accuracy Report

Report No vertical accuracies are given or implied.

Quantitative Vertical Positional Accuracy Assessment

Vertical Positional Accuracy Value
Vertical Positional Accuracy Explanation

Logical Consistency Report Line segments making up the inner and outer boundaries of of a polygon tie end-to-end to completely enclose the area. No duplicate features exist. All nodes are represented by a single coordinate pair which indicates the beginning or end of a line segment.

Completeness Report All boundaries for existing New Mexico State Parks, as of January 2009, are depicted in this dataset. The public version of this dataset does not contain potential State Parks or other non-finalized entities. Due to the source data accuracy limitations, there may be portions of existing State Parks not depicted as such in this version, or areas depicted as being within the bounds of State Parks which, in fact, are not. More complete analyses of legal descriptions, supplemented by increased locational accuracies, will likely result in a revised (and more "complete") dataset.

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Source Information

Source Citation

Source Scale Denominator 24000

Type of Source Media paper

Source Time Period of Content

DateTime Unknown
Source Currentness Reference publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation pap1

Source Contribution park boundaries on paper documents. Note: the Source Scale Denominator refers to some but not all of the paper source materials; other source materials had a range of scales. There is insufficient data at this stage to ascertain the full range of source materials used, scales, etc.

Source Information

Source Citation

Source Scale Denominator 5000

Type of Source Media computer program

Source Time Period of Content

DateTime Unknown
Source Currentness Reference publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation cad1

Source Contribution AutoCAD drawing(s) of parks boundary. Note: the Source Scale Denominator refers to some but not all of the paper source materials; other source materials had a range of scales. There is insufficient data at this stage to ascertain the full range of source materials used, scales, etc.

Source Information

Source Citation

Source Scale Denominator 24000

Type of Source Media varies

Source Time Period of Content

DateTime Unknown
Source Currentness Reference publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation legal1

Source Contribution legal descriptions of parks boundaries in paper or digital formats. Note: the Source Scale Denominator refers to some but not all of the paper source materials; other source materials had a range of scales. There is insufficient data at this stage to ascertain the full range of source materials used, scales, etc.

Process Step

Process Description The following process description was provided by Eleanore Nestelrode of the NM SLO: "State parks boundaries were derived using a variety of methods. The majority of boundaries were either direct CAD-to-GIS conversions or digitized from georeferenced CAD import; a few boundaries were digitized from interpretation of legal description. All boundaries were compared with digital orthophotography (ECW files, ca. 2005-2006, downloaded from http://rgis.unm.edu) for logical fit. Vertices were snapped to GCDB PLSS where applicable for consistency."

Process Date 2008

Process Time

Process Contact

Individual Name Eleanore Nestlerode

Organization Name

Position Name IT/GIS Business Analyst

Role Point of contact

Voice 505-827-5727

Facsimile

Address

Delivery Point Post Office Box 1148
City Santa Fe
Administrative Area New Mexico
Postal Code 87504-1148
Country USA

Address

Delivery Point 310 Old Santa Fe Trail
City Santa Fe
Administrative Area New Mexico
Postal Code 87501
Country USA

Electronic Mail Address ENestlerode@slo.state.nm.us

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