The Amtrak Stations database is a geographic data set containing Amtrak intercity railroad passenger terminals in the United States and Canada. Attribute data include services and passenger amenities provided at the station.
The data set provides location and attribute information for use in national and regional cartographic and network analysis applications.
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GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
All point records are represented by a single coordinate pair and a unique feature identifier; the Amtrak Station Code (stored in the STNCODE field). Attribute data can be matched to specific point records using this identifier.
The database includes all Amtrak railroad and thruway bus stations listed in the Amtrak timetables mentioned above.
This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
Spatial and Attribute Information
FRA's Amtrak Database was copied and the attributes for each station was compared with the Amtrak website. If there were any dissimilarities, the attribute table was changed. If an address of a station changed, the location of the station was observed to determine if the point had to be moved. If a station location had to be moved, it was done manually. Newly added stations were first but into a separate shapefile (a shapefile for each geographic region) and were added manually by cross-referencing their location with road atlases. Then the shapefiles were added to the database.
-The Geoplan Center received the dataset 8/12/2009. -Records were selected where "FIPS" = '12' to select only features in Florida. -Exported selection as a new layer -Reprojected data from GCS_WGS_1984 to Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library) -Upper cased appropriate fields -Added DESCRIPT field based on CITY -Added FGDLAQDATE field and calculated to 8/12/2008 -Renamed dataset from amtk_stations to amtrak_2009
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile.
Dataset copied.
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Unique Station Code
Amtrak
City and State of the station
FRA
Street address of the station
Amtrak
Street address of the station, if app.
Amtrak
Name of city where station is located
Amtrak
State railroad abbreviation which follows the Postal abbreviation
Amtrak
Postal ZIP Code for station
Amtrak
Type of Station
FRA
Station is a Bus location
FRA
Station is a rail location
FRA
Station serves other modes
FRA
State FIPS
BTS
The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed.
RITA/BTS
The City which the Amtrak facility is located
GeoPlan Center
GeoPlan Acquisition Date
GeoPlan Center
Unique ID added by GeoPlan
GeoPlan
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