Our version of the Alaska coastline originated with the North Slope Borough who gave this coverage to EROS on 3-7-89. At EROS many edits and improvements were made to the coastline coverage. The State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources received this edited coverage from EROS on 7-29-92 and has continued to make cartographic improvements to the coverage.
4/19/95 K Zeiner Replaced the Canadian border in southeast with the border from the TWPSPOLY.
5/4/95 K Zeiner Added an island to the coastline per Dorothy Mortenson. Buldir Island--located in the Aleutian chain.
Related_Spatial_and_Tabular_Data_Sets: LUT: ALASKA.AFRQ FREQUENCY CODE LENGTH DESC CODEC 1 4370 50.200 65157860.000 COASTLINE C 2 213 50.202 121971.300 CLOSURE LINE CL 3 2509 50.412 18472760.000 STREAM S 4 1178 50.421 10741410.000 LAKE L 5 45 90.197 2180206.000 CANADIAN BORDER CB
Notes: Projection: Albers Date Received: 7/28/92 Verified: J. Tam 7/29/92 Documented by: J. Tam 7/29/92 This coverage has a fuzzy tolerance of 0.100. Cleaned up labelerrors; deleted incorrect Copper River - 7/31/92 Changed codec for Baird Inlet from S to C so it will draw on our base maps - J. Tam - 7/14/93 Coverage converted from pre-7.0 to Arc/Info 8.x to recover projection file. Work performed by D. Seamount. 4/18/2003.
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