Description: Point layer to show the location of areas and specific features such as buildings, mile markers, and mountain tops Originally, five layers of place data were combined into a single layer; those of: PLACES (Was SANGIS.PLACES renamed PLACES_OLD); SHERIFF_PLACE_NAMES (Sheriff's place name file for dispatch);PLACES_SG SANDAG Places layer; PLACE_NAMES (Geographic Names Information System /GNIS, assumed); PLACES_CASINOS Casinos.In PLACES_CASINOS fields were added named ADDR and CITYNM and calculated equal to existing fields ADDRESS and CITY to facilitate the appending process.PLACES and PLACES_SG initially contained MULTIPOINT features; TOOLBOX Feature to Point was used to make the features POINT. The working layers were then called PLACES_SG_FeatureToPoint and PLACES_OLD_FeatureToPoint.In the PLACES layer 3 fields were widened for consistency with similarly named fields in other layers. NAME was widened from 32 to 200; ADDR was widened from 32 to 75; TYPE was widened from 20 to 254. After 2 versions the layer was named PLACES_OLD_FeatureToPoint2. PLACES_OLD_FeatureToPoint2 (which was originally PLACES) was copied to a feature class named PLACES_COMBINED. The other 4 feature classes were then appended with the NOTEST option. The name of the original layers where each point resided is in an added field FEA_SRC.The geodatabase was then copied, renamed PLACES_OUTPUT_20100730 and unneeded intermediate results were deleted.The final result is the feature class PLACES_COMBINED in the geodatabase PLACES_OUTPUT_20100730. The dataset has since been added to from numerous other point source datasets along with individual edits from a range of data sources.For the most part, the attribute fields align with the original 5 datasets that were used to create Places. However, some fields were deleted, as they did not apply to the other datasets. Other fields were assigned an attribute domain. These include: CityNm, CommunityNm, EntityType, and Fea_Src. The EntityType domain was taken directly from Bing's entity types and descriptions. It was then modifed to be more easily understood and simplified. The Fea_Src domain lists the 5 original data sources, plus Bing as a future data source.The dataset is updated and reviewed by SanGIS on the basis of updates received to other independent point source datasets (e.g. hospitals, schools, fire stations). The Fea_Src field may change from the original sources as data is reviewed and revised. Where duplication of features from the original place data are discovered they are consolidated into a single feature.
Copyright Text: Staff at San Diego Data Processing, students and department of planning and land use, staff at SanGIS, the San Diego Sheriff's department dispatchers, and several commercial and open source resources.