Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale data sets are not suitable for some projects, analysis, or modeling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data.
1:24000 scale data sets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries.
1:100000 scale data sets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:250000 scale data sets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger.
Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our web pages at: <http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html>
Some conservation lands straddle water management district boundaries. To facilitate initial database development, the entire polygon representing a particular park, etc. was included in only one of the water management district coverages. Hence, caution should be exercised in generating statistics from a single coverage for areas within a water management district. Similarly, some polygons in the database include both terrestrial and marine areas. Summary statistics for conservation lands within the St. John's River Water Management District and the South Florida Water Management district which were published with the final report of the Fla. Greenways Commission (December 1994) were calculated by subtracting the area of overlap with marine waters (by unioning the coverages with 1:100K DLG hydrography) from the areas calculated for the polygons in the conservation lands coverages. The final report summary statistics for area in aquatic preserves was calculated from the DEP-FMRI aquatic preserves database, not the aquatic preserve polygons found in this version.