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<measDesc>ATS v4.1 Polygons - Township Index polygons are created and quality assured by Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP), on behalf of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta, to conform to the defining quarter section points (and other required defining points) in ATS Version 4.1 (Master Alberta Township System coordinate file published March 31, 2005).</measDesc>
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<measDesc>Measured and/or calculated locations of the corners of ATS quarter sections and road allowances are regarded as accurate to 3 metres of true ground location in rural areas of the province and 0.15 metre in urban areas of the province. However, the polygon corners as derived from these coordinates may be subject to storage platform data resolution variances of sub millimetre magnitude from the published MATS coordinates.</measDesc>
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<stepDesc>Projected (10TM) version clipped with Alberta provincial boundary to update due to provincial boundary update on March 02, 2020</stepDesc>
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<attrdef>Unique polygon identifier that is a text data type concatenation of the Meridian, Range and Township attribute values.</attrdef>
<attrdefs>ADP ATS polygon table schema, as per a ADP provided document titled ATS_V4.1_Polygons_Information.doc, August 7, 2009.</attrdefs>
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<attrdef>Township identifier as text, made up of concatenation of the Meridian, Range, and Township attribute values, including leading zeros for the Range and Township.</attrdef>
<attrdefs>ADP ATS polygon table schema, as per a ADP provided document titled ATS_V4.1_Polygons_Information.doc, August 7, 2009.</attrdefs>
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<attrdef>Township identifier as text, made up of concatenation of the Township, Range, and Meridian attribute values.</attrdef>
<attrdefs>ADP ATS polygon table schema, as per a ADP provided document titled ATS_V4.1_Polygons_Information.doc, August 7, 2009.</attrdefs>
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<attrdefs>ADP ATS polygon table schema, as per a ADP provided document titled ATS_V4.1_Polygons_Information.doc, August 7, 2009.</attrdefs>
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<attrdef>Full description of the polygon.</attrdef>
<attrdefs>ADP ATS polygon table schema, as per a ADP provided document titled ATS_V4.1_Polygons_Information.doc, August 7, 2009.</attrdefs>
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<attrdef>Feature geometry.</attrdef>
<attrdefs>ESRI</attrdefs>
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<udom>Coordinates defining the features.</udom>
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