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Centrus Coastal Boundaries data is designed to
identify the areas at high risk for coastal flooding. Distance to coast is an
extremely important variable in determining insurance risk for a given
location. Coastal locations are subject to hurricanes, storm surges, flooding
and other natural disasters. Other shoreline files are lacking sufficient
detail on the water feature name, making them virtually unusable. For example,
there is just one big "ocean" or "gulf" feature, where in fact there should be
inlets and bays that may exhibit totally different flooding characteristics.
Centrus has developed an extremely high-resolution file of the United States'
shoreline, based on the TANA Dynamap/2000 database. The annotated file contains
the feature name itself (e.g. Bodega Bay), as well as its major water name
(e.g. Gulf of Mexico, Tampa Bay, and Atlantic Ocean). The file contains coastal
features for the Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico
shorelines. There are 1,087 objects in the file.
Centrus
Coastal Boundary data is designed for use with Centrus
Spatial+ solutions.
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