Layer Name:	Hawaii Emergency Shelters

Coverage Name:	emergency_shelters, emergency_shelters_mc

Layer Type:	Point

Status:		Complete

Geog. Extent:	Main Hawaiian Islands

Projection:	Universal Trans Mercator, Zone 4 (Meters)

Datum:		NAD 83

Description:	Emergency Shelter locations for the State of Hawaii.
		
Source(s):	Pacific Disaster Center.  Dated: 07/01/2005.
		Maui County.  Dated:  11/21/06.

History:	The original Hawaii Emergency Shelters layer was created by the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC). 

       		1) For Hawaii and Kauai County: Shelter locations were plotted or validated by address 
		verification means utilizing tabular information provided by the Hawaii State Chapter 
		of the American Red Cross. Because most of the emergency shelters were located in public 
		schools, the Emergency Shelters data layer was created by utilizing an existing Hawaii 
		Public Schools data layer. The Public Schools layer was modified by removing schools that 
		were not emergency shelters and digitizing points that were emergency shelters but not 
		located in public schools. The Public Schools layer was originally created by the State 
		of Hawaii, Office of Planning in 2001.  

       		2) For Maui County and the C&C of Honolulu: The list of current emergency shelters was compared 
		against an existing emergency shelter location shapefile utilizing tabular information 
		provided by the Hawaii State Chapter of the American Red Cross. Shelters that were missing 
		from the existing shapefile were digitized using their addresses, shelters in the existing 
		shapefile but not on the list were removed, and shelters in the shapefile and on the list 
		were validated by address verification means.

       		3) Street addresses and telephone numbers for each emergency shelter location were valididated 
		using the State of Hawaii Department of Education public school directory and the Internet 
		Yellow Pages.

       		4) The shapefiles for Hawaii County, Maui County, Kauai County and the C&C of Honolulu were merged 
		into a single statewide coverage.

    		5) The data was projected from the Old Hawaiian Datum to the NAD 83 Datum using a Molodensky transform 
		with the following value: Hi_Nei  61(x) -285(y) -181(z). 

        	6) In July 2005, an emergency shelters shapefile was provided to the PDC by the Kauai Civil Defense Agency. 
		This data replaced the existing Kauai County data in the statewide emergency shelters shapefile.

        	7) In December, 2007, an emergency shelters shapefile was provided to the Office of Planning by the Maui
		County GIS Program. Because the attributes were somewhat different than the statewide layer, a decision 
		was made by OP to remove the Maui County shelters from the statewide layer, and to maintain the Maui County
		shelters separately.



Attributes:	Points (emergency_shelters)

		BUSNAME		Business Name
		ADDRESS		Address
		PHONE		Phone Number
		PLACENAME	Place Name
		CONTACT		Contact Name
		ZIPCODE		US Postal Zip Code
		CAPACITY	Shelter Maximum Person Capacity
		SCHOOL_COD	School ID Code
		ELEMENTARY	Elementary School (1=True, 0=False)
		MIDDLE		Middle School (1=True, 0=False)
		HIGH		High School (1=True, 0=False)
		SPACE		Maximum Person Space
		W_UPGRADE	
		EVAC_ZONE	Evacuation Zone
		TYPE		Shelter Type

Attributes:	Points (emergency_shelters_mc)

		ADDRESS		Address
		BUSNAME		Business Name
		PLACENAME	Place Name
		TSUNAMI		Whether shelter is a tsunami shelter - Y or N
		HURRICANE	Whether shelter is a hurricane shelter - Y or N
		ISLAND		Island where shelter is located - Lanai, Maui or Molokai
		FACILITY	Type of facility (e.g., Community Center, School, etc.)
		

NOTE:		For more information, please refer to full metadata.

	
		
Contact:	Joan Delos Santos, Office of Planning, State of Hawaii, 
		PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi.  96804; (808) 587-2895.
		email:  JDelos_Santos@dbedt.hawaii.gov