ARLINGTON
COUNTY
Here’s the data you get …
DATA INCLUDED ON CD
Addresses – individual address points
GEOGRAPHIC DATA
Bridge – Bridge areas
Buildings – building footprints
Census 1990 & Census 2000 – tracts, block
groups and blocks; neighborhood service areas;
metro station and corridor areas (1990 data)
Civic Associations – boundaries
County - County Features, points for fire stations,
libraries, metro stations, schools, etc.
Fire - First Due Areas & Fireboxes
Geology – geologic units, faults
Index Map – sheets, sections and quads
Neighborhood Conservation Areas
Parks - various Parks Dept information
Planimetric– Airport, Alley, Curb, Driveway,
Handicap Ramp, Parking Lot, Pave, Paved Median,
Road, & Sidewalk
Police – districts, beats and reporting areas
Real Estate – property and lot lines, subdivision
boundaries and names, ingress/egress easements,
complete annotation
Schools – School locations and Boundaries
Soils - Soils
Street network – centerlines with address ranges
and functional classification; main road centerlines
and street name annotation; use for geocoding
Voter precincts –house and senate districts, polling
locations
ZIP Codes – polygons with 5-digit ZIPs
Zoning – zoning lines, annotation, historic districts
Geographic Data
COMPACT DISC
ARLINGTON COUNTY
G.I.S. MAPPING CENTER
2100 Clarendon Blvd. Suite 813
Arlington, Virginia 22201
Phone (703) 228-3649
Fax (703) 228-3606
Visit us on the web at:
http://magellan.co.arlington.va.us/MapCenter/default.htm
ARLINGTON GIS DATA
Arlington County’s former Department of
Public Works maintained Real Property
Identification Maps for years, in addition to
other maps of the County. Today, this data is
stored digitally in a geographic information
system, or GIS, providing quick plotting and
analysis of geographic data. This data is
maintained in the County’s GIS Mapping
Center.
DATA
ON
COMPACT DISC
The ARLINGTON COUNTY GEOGRAPHIC
DATA CD is published annually by the GIS
MAPPING CENTER. This product serves as
the primary method for the MAPPING
CENTER to distribute its geographic data
electronically to the general public and
business communities. Hard copy maps are
also available from the MAPPING CENTER,
through the Engineering Customer Service
Counter.
The DATA CD contains the same data used
to the create the standard hard copy maps,
allowing you to use your software to create
maps on your own, or to interactively view
and analyze the data. There is no installation
program required to view it; you may simply
point your software to your CD-ROM drive
to access the data directly from the CD, or
you may copy the data to your computer’s
hard drive.
Data is provided in Personal Geodatabase
v9.0 format in NAD83 Virginia State Plane
Coordinate System.
Geographic Data CD
DATA FORMAT AND VIEWING
Arlington’s geographic data layers are
created and stored in Personal
Geodatabase format and may be viewed in
ArcGIS 9.0* or higher GIS software by
ESRI. The software is available for
purchase through ESRI.
PURCHASING INFORMATION
The Arlington County GIS Data CDROM is available for purchase at the DES
Engineering Bureau’s Customer Service
Counter, 2100 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite
813, Arlington, VA 22201. It may be
purchased for $125. You should call (703)
228-3629 (option 0) for availability.
Tabular data on the CD is stored in MS
Access®.
Note that the $125 charge does not cover
shipping. The Customer Service Counter
cannot ship the CD. Please contact the
GIS Mapping Center for shipping charges
and methods at (703) 228-3649.
*This data is not viewable in previous
version of ESRI software (Arcview v3.2 or
ArcGIS 8.x). Please contact ESRI if you
have outdated software.
The data is copyrighted by Arlington
County and may not be redistributed,
resold, or copied (except for backup or for
use on a PC or local area network.)
Note this disk only contains data. No
software is provided to view the data.
http://magellan.co.arlington.va.us/
MapCenter/default.htm
The power to
visualize, explore,
query and analyze
data geographically