militaryBases: US Military Bases
In RobWiederstein/retirementData: US Retirement Location Data

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A dataset containing published US military bases.

1	data("militaryBases")

A data frame with 721 rows and 6 variables:

lat: latitude of military base
lon: longitude of military base
objectid: a unique identifier of US military bases
base: name of military base or site
perimeter: perimeter in miles
area: area in square miles

According to the opendatasoft website: "The Military Bases dataset is as of May 21, 2019, and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics's (BTS's) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The dataset depicts the authoritative boundaries of the most commonly known Department of Defense (DoD) sites, installations, ranges, and training areas in the United States and Territories. These sites encompass land which is federally owned or otherwise managed.

This dataset was created from source data provided by the four Military Service Component headquarters and was compiled by the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) Program within the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, Business Enterprise Integration Directorate. Sites were selected from the 2010 Base Structure Report (BSR), a summary of the DoD Real Property Inventory. This list does not necessarily represent a comprehensive collection of all Department of Defense facilities, and only those in the fifty United States . . . were considered for inclusion.

For inventory purposes, installations are comprised of sites, where a site is defined as a specific geographic location of federally owned or managed land and is assigned to military installation. DoD installations are commonly referred to as a base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport facility for any ship, or other activity under the jurisdiction, custody, control of the DoD."

The accompanying release notes excluded some sites because (1) national security concerns, (2) geospatial data was unavailable or (3) the site was leased. Sites were included if it (1) is a DoD site located in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Guam; (2) is larger than 10 acres and (3) is valued greater than $10 million.

U.S. territories were excluded.

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