PDF MAPS FOR EACH MPO

SHAPEFILES FOR EACH MPO

SHAPEFILE UPDATES

MPO USERS: GENERAL COMMENTS ON SHAPEFILES AND PDF’s

INTRODUCTION 

In August of 2005, President Bush signed into law, the transportation reauthorization bill, now known as SAFETEA-LU. Sections 6001 and 6002, of the new law, added a new step in the environmental process, requiring MPO’s to consider and document the potential environmental impacts and who may need to be coordinated with in the future, for any possible mitigation of these impacts. This step is required in order for the MPO to add any proposed projects to the long range transportation plan.  The law requires a very “broad brush”, general look at what resources may be impacted. To aid in this general, “broad-brush” look at resources, primary consideration has been given to features that normally require the highest level of documentation, coordination and mitigation efforts.

These shapefiles are provided to help insure that all MPO’s are working from the same page as ODOT, when it comes time to include projects on the long range transportation plan. ODOT needs to have the ability to perform an “apples-to-apples” comparison, so data sets needed to be “standardized” to a “middle-of-the-road”, on temporal currency and spatial accuracy standards. These datasets are no doubt, compiled to a more general scale and to a slightly looser accuracy standard than what you may already have in your respective offices. Please use this data for the general, intended purpose. 

DATASETS 

There are several shapefile sets enclosed for each MPO area. Not all shapefiles will be in all MPO’s. Some MPO’s don’t have State or National Designated WSR Rivers, for example. The datasets were compiled from ODOT datasets, which are maintained in GEOMEDIA and are in State Plane South, NAD83, feet. These datasets were exported to a shapefile format, from GEOMEDIA, so you may need to re-project the data for your area, as appropriate.   

The shapefiles have the following naming convention and cover these subjects:

1. DECIDUOUS_FOREST  NLCD dataset: Landcover “gridcode”= 41, Deciduous Forests

2. HUC11  NRCS dataset: 11 digit Hydrologic Unit Codes; define a watershed

3. NATIONAL_REGISTER_DIST  SHPO dataset: Historic National Register Districts

4. NATIONAL_REGISTER_SITE  SHPO dataset: Historic National Register Sites

5. OPEN_WATER  DLG dataset: of Hydrologic features

6. PARK_CONSERVATION_AREA  ODNR dataset: federal, state and local parks and conservation areas

7. RIVER_STATE  ODNR dataset: State Designated Wild, Scenic or Recreational Rivers

8. SUPERFUND_SITES  OEPA “CERCLIS” dataset: HAZMAT “Superfund Sites”

9. THREATENED_ENDANGERED_SPECIES  ODNR dataset: Threatened and Endangered Species…sorry, location only, no attribution included.

10. TMDL  OEPA dataset: Total Maximum Daily Load Program

11. WETLAND  NLCD dataset: Landcover “gridcode”= 91 and 92

12. WOODY_WETLAND  NLCD dataset: Landcover “gridcode”= 91

13. RIVER_NATIONAL  National Park Service Dataset: National Designated Wild, Scenic or Recreational Rivers

The 8 themes to be mapped are the following (These are the same IDENTICAL maps available in the PDF map sets): 

1) SHPO- National Register Sites and Districts (State Historic Preservation Office Location of National Register Sites and Districts.)

2) Parklands and Conservation Lands (Location of parklands and conservation areas…such as”metro parks”, state parks, State managed wildlife areas, etc.)

3) Potential Wetlands (Location of “wetlands” land covers.)

4) EPA Superfund Sites (Location of “Superfund” sites from the USEPA CERCLIS listing.)

5) Threatened and Endangered Species (Location of State and Federal Threatened or Endangered species, plants, animals, insects, etc)

6) OEPA - TMDL Streams (Total Maximum Daily Load program) and 11 digit HUC's (Boundaries of the OEPA 11 digit HUC’s (Hydrologic Unit Code) and their ID#.). This is a combined map.

7) Potential Indiana Bat Habitat (Location of “primary” Potential Indiana Bat Habitat, according to forest types, proximity to water, proximity to other forested areas and the location of parkland or conservation areas.)

8) State/Federal Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers (Location of any rivers that are State designated “Scenic” or “Recreational” rivers or are Federal designated “Wild” or “Scenic” rivers.) 

The shapefile data used to represent each of the previous themes is as follows: 

1) 11 digit HUC's/ OEPA - TMDL Streams

• HUC11  (One Key field is “HUC_11” this is the ID of the HUC and the other Key field is the “Projected_TMDL” which is the year that OEPA intends to have a TMDL in place for this watershed)

• TMDL ( These are the DLG streams with the HUC_11 and “Projected_TMDL” information included for each stream segment)

2) SHPO- National Register Sites and Districts

• NATIONAL_REGISTER_DIST

• NATIONAL_REGISTER_SITE

3) Parklands and Conservation Lands

• PARK_CONSERVATION_AREA

4) Potential Wetlands

• OPEN_WATER

• WETLAND

5) EPA Superfund Sites

• SUPERFUND_SITES

6) Threatened and Endangered Species

• THREATENED_ENDANGERED_SPECIES

7) Potential Indiana Bat Habitat (all of these layers need to be on together and indicate where the Indiana Bat may potentially be found)

• DECIDUOUS_FOREST

• OPEN_WATER

• WOODY_WETLAND

• PARK_CONSERVATION_AREA

8) State/Federal Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers

• RIVER_STATE

• RIVER_NATIONAL

If you have any questions about the data sets, please feel free to contact me:

Gary Penn, GIS Coordinator

Ohio Department of Transportation,

Office of Environmental Services,

1980 West Broad Street,

Columbus, OH 43223,

Phone#: (614)466-6438 or (614)466-7100.

E-Mail: Gary.Penn@DOT.STATE.OH.US