NZ Topo - object class canal_cl

This page describe the canal_cl object class used to represent objects in the NZTopo topographic database.

Description

An artificial open waterway used for transportation, waterpower or irrigation.

Topo50 description

Canal_cl is used to capture canals where they aretoo narrow to hold at 1:50,000 as an area feature. Wider canals are captured as a polygon. Where a canal is close to a road, the position held in the data is as close to it's true position as capture techniques permit. This may result in part of the canal feature being obscurred by the road symbol. Other objects completing the water-flow pattern are: river, lake, swamp, water race,pond, lagoon, and pipeline_cl (where pipeline_use = 'water)

Topo250 description

Only those significant by their size or location are held in the Topo250 data and shown on the Topo250 printed maps; these are a generalised subset of those shown on the Topo50 series

Representation specification

Representation specification showing canal_cl

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See also: siphon_pnt canal_poly

Class attributes

Attribute Value
Object class canal_cl
Entity class WATERCOURSE
Additional entity class Not applicable
Object inheritance simple_line
Entity source US Standard Entity
Map series Topo250 Topo50 Topo500
LSLIFF object class 15

Object attributes

Attribute LSLIFF code
Shapefile field
Data type
Attribute description Attribute values*
name 1001
name
string
Name of the canal, where known. Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use the name_ascii attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed. UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format-8. It is an octet (8-bit) lossless encoding of Unicode characters. UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number of 1 to 4 octets, where the number of octets depends on the integer value assigned to the Unicode character. It is an efficient encoding of Unicode documents that use mostly US-ASCII characters because it represents each character in the range U+0000 through U+007F as a single octet. UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML.
"Maukoro Canal"
{empty}
name_macronated 1140
macronated
boolean
Indicates whether the entry in the name_ascii field contains a macronated vowel. Where the value is "Y" go to http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-place-name/find-m%C4%81ori-place-names-dual-names-and-alternative-names for a list of places or feature names within New Zealand that are gazetted and include macrons
Y
N
name_ascii 9000
name_ascii
string
Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use this attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed.
UFID 1000
t50_fid
integer
A unique identifier for use on Topo50 data in the LINZ Data Service. This is not a universal ID. The intention is to manage these ID’s as persistent, however this is not guaranteed and there will be instances where what appears to be a minor change to a feature may result in a new ID being assigned.
"3254886"

* See explanation of attribute values for more information about how attribute values are represented.

Change log

Feature version Revised Description
6 2014-11-14 Updated definition
5 2012-08-28 Updated map image and aerial view; added representation specification and example feature photographs
4 2012-08-16 Name attribute in UTF-8 format; added name_ascii attribute
3 2010-03-01 Added name_macronated attribute
2 2001-11-23 Unspecified update
1 1999-03-01 intial status