Abstract:

This dataset contains the US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) port locations within the state of Florida. The data consists of location description, street address, city, county name, congressional district FIPS code, type of construction, cargo-handling equipment, water depth alongside the facility, facility type ( dock, fleeting area, lock and/or dam) berthing space, latitude, longitude, current operators and owner's information, list of commodities handled at facility, road/railway connections, equipment available at facility, storage facilities, cranes, transit sheds, grain elevators, marine repair plants, fleeting areas, and docking, and facility start/stop date.. Collection of data is performed on a rotational basis to ensure on-site accuracy at each facility. This dataset is an update to the acport_2015 layer.

Purpose:

The Navigation Data Center had several objectives in developing the 
U.S. Waterway Data. These objectives support the concept of a 
National Spatial Data Provide public access to national waterway data. 
Foster interagency and intra-agency cooperation through data sharing. 
Provide a mechanism to integrate waterway data (U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers Port/Facility and U.S. Coast Guard Accident Data, for 
example) Provide a basis for intermodal analysis. Assist standardization 
of waterway entity definitions (Ports/Facilities, Locks, etc.). Provide 
public access to the National Waterway Network, which can be used 
as a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other 
spatial data (waterway and modal network/facility databases, for 
example). Provide reliable data to support future waterway and 
intermodal applications.

Supplemental_Information:

A description of the physical and Intermodal (infrastructure) 
characteristics of the ports in Florida.

Currentness_Reference:

ground condition

Use_Constraints:

None.  Acknowledgment of the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics National 
Transportation Atlas Database 2014 would be appreciated in products 
derived from these data.

Address:

7701 Telegraph Road, Casey Building

Data_Set_Credit:

The National Waterway Network was created on behalf of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of Census, and the U.S. Coast Guard by Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  Additional agencies with input into network development include Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Maritime Administration, Military Traffic Management Command, Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Railroad Administration.

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

RITA/BTS quality checks were to cross reference the place dataset 
with the state dataset, to determine that the spatial data and attribute 
data were accurate

Completeness_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The accuracy of each point element is correlated to the data source 
used to derive that element.  For example, links and nodes derived 
from 1:100,000 scale Digital Line Graphs are more accurate than links 
and nodes derived from 1:500,000 scale NOAA Navigational Charts.  
Elements with an "M" in the source field (indicating an unknown or 
missing source) are the least accurate.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

Source_Contribution:

Spatial and Attribute Information

Process_Description:

Extraction of the USACE identified port nodes from the National Waterway 
Network file.

Process_Description:

GeoPlan obtained the data from the Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics in shapefile format from the BTS data website:
https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ports
During the QA/QC
process, GeoPlan performed the following tasks.
- Extracted features where "STATE_POST" = 'FL' to select features 
  in Florida.
- Selected points in Florida, which removed 12 points that fell outside 
  the extent of Florida
  - Original ports.shp projection was GCS_WGS_1984.  Reprojected the 
  shapefile to Albers Conical Equal Area (fgdl_square) using the 
  WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida 
  transformation. 
- Added DESCRIPT field and populated it based on 
  NAV_UNIT_N
- Added FGDLAQDATE field and populated it based on the date 
  GeoPlan received the data
- Restructured table by reducing field lengths to better suit data.
- Uppercased all records in the table
- Renamed the dataset from ports.shp to acport_2019

Process_Description:

Dataset copied.

Attribute_Definition:

Internal feature number.