This data is intended for use in the Efficient Transporation Decision Making Process (ETDM), which includes the development of an on-line application called the Environmental Screening Tool. The primary objective of the program include:
- Effective/timely decision making without compromising environmental quality - Integrating review and permitting processe. - Early NEPA reviews and approvals - Full and early participation - Meaningful dispute resolution
For more information about these initiatives an on-line search using keyword 'ETDM' will provide a number of resources. A listing of relevant documents and resources is included under: <http://fdotenvironmentalstreamlining.urs-tally.com/Library/default.htm>.
A note about data scale:
Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data.
1:24000 scale datasets 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 datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:125000 scale datasets 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 analysis. 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 webpage at: <http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html>
Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council NEFRPC 6850 Belfort Oaks Place Jacksonville, FL 32216 (904) 279-0880 Fax (904) 279-0881 <http://www.nefrpc.org/> info@nefrc.org Keith Joiner KJoiner@nefrc.org
ALACHUA: Unioned Alachua county fire districts shape-file (2001) and Gainesville fire territories shape-file (2004) to create new layer. Edited shape file to remove overlapping zones and expanded county zones to cover non-covered areas.
BRADFORD: Used county EOC provided shapefile to determine boundaries and coverage area.
DIXIE: 911 Coordinator Mike Gantt provided shapefiles of boundaries and coverage areas.
GILCHRIST: Copied Gilchrist county property appraiser data to GC_firezones. Delete irrelevant data.
HAMILTON: selected in parcel shapefile the parcels with cities that have police departments and cut a polygon around the feature for city boundaries. Rest of county handled by sheriff dept, and no subzones are available at publication time.
LAFAYETTE: Used county EOC provided paper map to determine boundaries and coverage area.
LEVY: Used county EOC provided paper map to determine boundaries and coverage area.
MADISON: Used county EOC provided shapefile to determine boundaries and coverage area.
TAYLOR: Used county EOC provided paper map to determine boundaries and coverage area.
UNION: Used county EOC provided shapefile to determine boundaries and coverage area
The polygons in this layer represent the actual parcels of land that the fire and rescue stations are located on. These polygons were extracted from the respective county cadastral GIS database supplied by the Property Appraiser's offices within the region.
The original geocoded point locations provided by the FGDL (gc_firestat_sep05.shp) were analyzed and the polygons they represented were extracted from the respective cadastral parcel GIS layers. A spatial join was performed to move the attribution from the points to the polygons. The intersected polygons were analyzed to ensure that they were the correct features using attribution such as owner name and DOR use code. Aerial photography was also used for analysis purposes where applicable.
Other sources of fire / rescue stations from municipal and county agencies were then added to the layer. These sources included data in disparate forms such as MS Access databases, Excel spreadsheets, MapInfo MIF files, shapefiles, and coverages. These data sources were then analyzed and when necessary added to the final layer via the process of either the append utility in Toolbox or copy/paste in an edit session. Where necessary attributes were transferred using the attribute transfer tool in the ArcMap spatial adjustment toolbar.
GeoPlan received this data and performed the following:
-Reprojected to the FGDL Albers HPGN map projection -Merged datasets together to create one FDOT District-wide shapefile. -added the fields 'COUNTY' based on actual county. -added FGDLAQDATE field based on the date FGDL acquired the data from the source. -added DESCRIPT field based on 'NAME'.