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

Map image

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Representation specification

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Example

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Aerial view

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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