Description: The WISLR database includes only lines representing roads for which WisDOT has maintenance responsibility; other roads commonly expected to be present in a representation of local roads (e.g., State Street and Observatory Drive in Madison) are NOT present, and would need to be added to a future version of the WISLR database. For the first time, INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS were included by WisDOT in this version of WISLR. Private Roads, ROADWAY_CATEGORY_CODE = 9, have not been removed; DNR users should be cognizant of this fact when presenting views to the public. Some of the data contained in this data set has not been finalized and should be considered "preliminary or pre-production". Some items WISLR is in the process of verifying/ correcting: certified roadway routes names, possible missing roads and some road alignment issues. While the overlay layer does contain a mileage value that has been proportionally derived from the certified mileage, it does NOT represent the certified mileage for a section of highway. Only one roadway route name is stored per feature in the overlay layer (this is the route name that WisDOT considers the "primary" route name for which certified mileage is tied to, it does not necessarily represent the route name that is physically signed out in the field). The route and route links tables must be used to retrieve all of the route names traveling over a link. The physical and administrative attribute data contained in the WISLR database was converted from the Local Road IMS System. The Local Road System stored attribute values in sections or segments. Thus, attribute values represent the average or predominant value; they do not necessarily cover the entire length of the section and it may not be representative at any given point. It should also be noted that many local governments have not yet evaluated the correctness of this database. The data in this data set has been compiled from multiple sources (see finalsource.jpg). The scale varies depending on the source that was used for each road or municipality. The Overlay layer has been created by "overlaying / dynamically segmenting" all data items in the database. Features (arcs) are broken whenever any data item in the database changes. VALUES for ROADWAY_CATEGORY_CODE (see also accompanying .LYR FILE)10 Interstate Road20 US Highway26 USH Connecting Highway30 State Trunk Highway36 STN Connecting Highway4 County Trunk Highway8 Other County Road7 County Forest Road5 Municipal Road9 Private40 On/Off Ramp41 Connector42 Frontage Road43 Wayside44 Rest Area45 Weigh Station99 Statistical Road
Copyright Text: Contact: John Tyson, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Bureau of Information Technology Services, 1701 N. 4th St., Superior, WI, 54880 Voice_Telephone: 715.392.787
Facsimile_Telephone: 715.392.7863 Email: john.tyson@dot.state.wi.us
Description: This polygon feature class represents surface water features (hydrography) in Wisconsin. The data are derived from the U.S. Geological Survey's Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) at 1:2,000,000 scale. Feature representation (i.e., whether a river is represented by a line or a polygon) is determined primarily by how the corresponding entity is symbolized on the USGS source maps. Depending on the source map symbolization, portions of a river may be represented by either single-or double-line features, and other portions as polygons, such as when a river widens to form a lake. For more informaiton, see: ftp://dnrftp01.wi.gov/geodata/metadata/open_water_2m.pdf.
Description: This data set is a line shape file representing surface water features (hydrography) in Wisconsin. The data are derived from the US Geological Survey's Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) at 1:2,000,000 scale. Feature representation (i.e., whether a river is represented by a line or a polygon) is determined primarily by how the corresponding entity is symbolized on the USGS source maps. Depending on the source map symbolization, portions of a river may be represented by either single-or double-line features, and other portions as polygons, such as when a river widens to form a lake. For more information, see: ftp://dnrftp01.wi.gov/geodata/metadata/rivers_and_shorelines_2m.pdf.
Description: This data layer is a polygon feature class representing Municipal Boundaries in Wisconsin, obtained from WisDOT on August 2, 2011. Staff at WI DATCP and WI DNR made limited edits to the data to achieve consistency with Municipal Boundary data maintained at WI DOA. In January 2013, DNR staff received an updated municipal boundaries file from the Walworth County Land Information Office. In February 2013, DNR staff used that file to add the new Village of Bloomfield in Walworth County to this statewide data layer, and to update the boundaries of several other Walworth County municipalities affected by the Village of Bloomfield incorporation. In this version of the data, county boundary lines are dissolved in cases where a municipality (or Minor Civil Division -- MCD) spans two or more counties. In other words, each MCD is represented as a single polygon or region feature.
Copyright Text: Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), Walworth County Land Information Office
Description: This polygon feature class represents boundaries of the 72 counties in Wisconsin. The data is derived from 1:24,000-scale sources. This feature class was last updated in December 2011; refer to the Data Quality section of the ArcGIS metadata for information about the nature of the update.