Type Shapefile
To show the locations of the current and historic state capitals of Kosrae.
This dataset shows the locations of Tofol, the state capital of the Kosrae State, and Lelu, the island's main traditional center and historic capital. The data layer was created by Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi) (2019).
Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi)
There are no expressed warranties associated with the release of these databases. Specifically, no warranty is made that the GIS data or any subsequent updates will be error free and no warranty is made regarding the positional or thematic accuracy of the GIS data. The GIS data and any features it depicts do not represent or confer any legal rights, privileges, benefits, boundaries or claims of any kind.
There is no extent for this item.
There is no scale range for this item.
The dataset is included in the Digital Atlas of Micronesia, module Kosrae, by Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi) in collaboration with Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI) at the University of Guam and funding from United States Geological Survey (USGS) under WRRI 104-B Program and FSM Department of Environment, Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM).
Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi)
Date of reference imagery used for digitization.
There are no expressed warranties associated with the release of these databases. Specifically, no warranty is made that the GIS data or any subsequent updates will be error free and no warranty is made regarding the positional or thematic accuracy of the GIS data. The GIS data and any features it depicts do not represent or confer any legal rights, privileges, benefits, boundaries or claims of any kind.
The dataset is believed to be complete at the time of creation. However, offices (especially smaller organizations) do move and locations may have to be updated.
The attributes are believed to be accurate. However, it is possible that buildings might have been mis-identified in the imagery.
Field verification of buildings using hard copy map.
No absolute accuracy is not known but is assumed to be within few meters.
Visual comparison with WorldView-3 satellite imagery.
1. Extracted features from government offices layer (kos_government_offices.shp); 2. Formatted attribute table.
The imagery was provided courtesy of Tony Kimmet (USDA-NRCS-National Geospatial Center of Excellence).
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Coordinates defining the features.
In WGS84
Organization/ institution building is part of
Source of original dataset.
In WGS84
Name of office