NZ Topo - object class rail_station_pnt

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

Description

A point on a railway line used for the picking up and setting down of passengers or freight

Topo50 description

Most operating passenger railway stations are held in the data and shown on the printed maps; larger railway stations may be held as a building_poly feature

Topo250 description

All operating passenger railway stations are held in the data and shown on the printed maps

Representation specification

Representation specification showing rail_station_pnt

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See also: railway_cl

Class attributes

Attribute Value
Object class rail_station_pnt
Entity class BUILDING
Additional entity class BUILDING COMPLEX
Object inheritance simple_point
Entity source Proposed change to US Entity
Map series Topo50 Topo250
LSLIFF object class 106

Object attributes

Attribute LSLIFF code
Shapefile field
Data type
Attribute description Attribute values*
name 1001
name
string
The name of the feature, 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.
{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
7 2012-08-28 Updated map image and aerial view; added representation specification and example feature photographs
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 object class change, removed attribute linz_spatial and added attribute name_macronated
3 2001-11-23 unspecified update
2 2000-03-31 new attribute
1 1999-03-01 initial status