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CGIA developed this set of point locations for public schools in North
Carolina as part of a project for the NC Division of Emergency Management.
School data serves multiple purposes, but foremost for this project,
public schools are vital facilities in terms of emergency management.
Many schools serve as shelters and all are critical to hazard
vulnerability planning and emergency response. CGIA used two methods
to generate point locations for public schools.  First, CGIA used a road
network from GDT, Inc. with ArcView GIS to geocode the addresses.  The
initial process matched 60 percent of the schools with a point on the
road network.  Point locations are approximate, based on an interpolation
of street numbers along street segments.  Second, CGIA worked with the
NC Department of Public Instruction to use the Transportation Information
Management System (TIMS) to determine school locations.  Many of these point
locations are coincident with the center of school buildings on digital
imagery or along driveways and may be more accurate than points located
using the first method.

This data was created to assist governmental agencies and others
in making resource management decisions through use of a Geographic
Information System (GIS).

system filename: schlpl     file size = 0.7 mb

Revisions and updates to this layer include:
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>6) filename: schlpl1208    Regular update.  December 29, 2008.
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>6) filename: schlpl1107    Regular update.  November 27, 2007.
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>5) filename: schlpl1206    Regular update.  December 28, 2006.
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>5) filename: schlpl1104    Regular update.  November 11, 2004.
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>4) filename: schlpl504    The 5/17/04 update:
>Points (from west to east) were verified/corrected using a backcover
>of the 1998 Color Infrared Orthophotography images.  (Reviewed points
>will have a '1' in the reviewed item.  Points that were moved will
>have a 'yes' in the ptmoved item.)
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>3) filename: schlpl404    The 4/20/04 update:
>The following public school point locations were corrected:
>NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY
>PASQUOTANK CO HIGH
>Correct locations were found on the greatschools.net website.
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>2) filename: schlpl703    Regular update.  July 3, 2003.
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>1) filename: schlpl701    The 07/12/01 version was the first
>released version of this data.

The majority of school locations were generated using geocoding
in Arcview. The point generated in the processing would be snapped to
the road identified in the address field.  Therefore, point
locations are coincident with the GDT roads data.