NZ Topo - object class canal_poly
This page describe the canal_poly 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_poly is used to capture canals where they are large enough to hold at 1:50,000 as an area feature. Narrower canals are captured as a centreline. 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)
See also: siphon_poly canal_cl
Class attributes
Attribute | Value |
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Object class | canal_poly |
Entity class | WATERCOURSE |
Additional entity class | Not applicable |
Object inheritance | simple_area |
Entity source | US Standard Entity |
Map series | Topo50 Topo250 |
LSLIFF object class | 303 |
Object attributes
Attribute | LSLIFF code Shapefile field Data type |
Attribute description | Attribute values* | ||
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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* See explanation of attribute values for more information about how attribute values are represented.
Change log
Feature version | Revised | Description |
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9 | 2014-11-14 | Updated definition |
8 | 2012-08-28 | Updated map image and aerial view; added representation specification and example feature photographs |
7 | 2012-08-28 | Added scale-specific definitions |
6 | 2012-08-28 | Added scale-specific definitions |
5 | 2012-08-16 | Name attribute in UTF-8 format; added name_ascii attribute |
4 | 2010-03-01 | Added name_macronated attribute |
3 | 2008-04-10 | Removed reference to seed and void objects |
2 | 2001-11-23 | Unspecified update |
1 | 1999-03-01 | intial status |