This dataset is a combination of 32 sources including county specific point datasets, and Law Enforcement addresses from (1) the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, (2) the Florida Highway Patrol, (3) the Yellow Pages online, and (4) Super Pages online. The data contains selected fields denoting the physical address, number, regions, and contact information for Law Enforcement Facilities and Agencies located in Florida.
This dataset is an update of the gc_lawenforece_sep05.shp layer, which previously included correctional facilities. Correctional facilities are now included in the gc_correctional_mar08.shp layer.
The geocoding process uses an algorithm to find the geographic location of addresses. First, a street segment is identified using the zip code and street name. Next, the geographic location of the address is matched using the building number to determine how far down the street and on which side of the street the building is located.
Geocoding Accuracy The locational accuracy of geocoded addresses may vary from urban to rural areas due to the algorithm used to generate the geographic locations of addresses. The algorithm assumes that the size of parcels are equivalent along a road route. This assumption tends to be more consistent in urban areas, where the size of parcels vary less than in rural areas. Consequently, the results of geocoded addresses in urban areas are usually more reliable than those in rural areas.
For example, the locational accuracy of rural addresses can be slightly off because some parcels along a rural route may be 15 acres while others may be 2.5 acres, but the geocoding algorithm assumes that the addresses are distributed evenly along the route.
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>
Florida Department of Law Enforcement FDLE Mailing Address: Florida Department of Law Enforcement P.O. Box 1489 Tallahassee, FL 32302-1489 Phone: 1-850-410-7000 E-Mail: info@fdle.state.fl.us Website: <http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/>
32 Different Sources Comprise the Law Enforcement Facility Dataset.
The following sources were either reprojected to the FGDL Albers NAD83 HPGN map projection or if no spatial data existed they were geocoded to a statewide 2007 TelAtlas Streets dataset.
Once the point sources were created via geocoding or reprojected they were merged into one statewide layer.
Record (facility) duplications were removed by manually viewing the table for each of the 67 counties. Where record duplication existed source information of previously corrected FDOT Districts and Regional Planning Council data took preference followed by, County data, and finally geocoded data.
Below are the data Sources as described in the Source field in the attribute table.
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BAY COUNTY DATA:
<http://www.pcbaygis.com/downloads/downloads.html>
Facilities police_pt police_pt.zip police_pt.pdf
8/20/2001
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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BROWARD COUNTY DATA:
Email Tami Price TPRICE@broward.org GIS Section Planning Services Division Urban Planning and Redevelopment Department (954) 357-6737
PoliceStations.shp
May 25, 2007
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY DATA:
Website data out of data contacted through Email:
<http://www.ccgis.com/gis/ftp_download_page.html>
points_of_interest.shp 1/1/2008
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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CITY OF PENSACOLA DATA:
Fire_Police.shp 1/30/08
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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COLLIER SHERIFF DATA:
<http://www.colliersheriff.org/Index.aspx?page=2000>
Patrol Districts
Geocoded Locations to TelAtlas Roads
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DTS DATA:
Data Transfer Solutions
DVD
1/18/2007
03_Marion_Law.shp 01_Flagler_Law.shp 05_Lake_Law.shp 02_Volusia_Law.shp 07_Orange_Law.shp 06_Seminole_Law.shp 04_Sumter_Law.shp 08_Osceola_Law.shp 09_Brevard_Law.shp
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
The DTS data was combined to create a district wide layer called: lawstat_d5_jan07.shp
The lawstat_d5_jan07.shp was added to the statewide layer. A few records were not added to the statewide layer because of the following: AUTOID
The following AUTOIDs can be found in the new gc_correctional layer. 3, 22, 50, 116, 131, 139, 140, 188, 207, 239, 294, 1, 49, 71, 145, 291, 127, 280
255 and 256 and 257 are all duplicates of 220 and so they were removed. 244 and 245 and 246 and 248 are all duplicates of 238 and 247 242 and 243 are all duplicates of 241 261 is a duplication of 223 267 is a duplication of 218 260 is a duplication of 221 34 was removed because it was a public school 15 was a community college 48 and 53 and 78 and 185 were police athletic leagues 301 and 292 and 288 and 189 were police academies 268 was a range 258 and 84 were training facilities 270 was a records building 269 was a human resources division building 266 was research and development building 265 was a proffesional standards building 264 was a legal services building 56 and 133 and 2 were the wrong address 251 was a fleet management building 250 was a fiscal management building 147 and 93 wer court buildings 5 was and emergency management building 249 was a ACCREDITATION/STAFF INSPECTION building 252 was a levo facility 8 was not verified by the city website 284 was a park 214 was a criminology department building 4 was a public safety building
The lawstat_d5_jan07.shp AUTOID numbers can be found in the new statewide layer via the field OLD_AUTOID.
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ESCAMBIA COUNTY DATA:
EMAIL Jason M. Jones, GIS Analyst Escambia County Planning and Engineering G.I.S. Division 1190 W. Leonard St Pensacola, FL 32501 Office: (850) 595-3463 Fax: (850) 595-3482 jmjones@co.escambia.fl.us
sheriifs_dept.shp June 30th 2004
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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FDLE DATA:
<http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/cjst/publications/AgencyAddresses/>
GeoCoded Data to TelAtlas Streets dataset
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FHP DATA:
<http://www.fhp.state.fl.us/misc/fhpstations.htm>
GeoCoded Data to TelAtlas Streets dataset
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HCSO DATA:
Email HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF
HCSOSubstationDistOffices.shp
January 11, 2008
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY DATA:
Sutapa Chatterjee Transportation Planner Indian River County MPO County Administration Bldg A 1801 27th Street Vero Beach FL 32960 (772) 226-1689 (O) (772) 978-1806 (F) schatterjee@ircgov.com
law_enforcement.shp
june 2003
Used Parcels to verify locations
Coordinate system name: Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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JACKSON COUNTY DATA:
Kevin Standland GIS JCCD 4487 Lafayette Street Marianna, FL 32446 (850) 482-9637 gistech@jacksoncountyfl.com
JC_FirePoliceSchools_point_Merge.shp
02/04/2008
Coordinate system name: *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_WGS_1984
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LEE COUNTY DATA:
Helena McMullen GIS Data Steward Lee County 1500 Monroe Street, 4th floor Fort Myers, FL 33901 hmcmullen@leegov.com Phone 239-533-8168 <http://leegis.leegov.com>
SheriffSubstations.shp
March 7, 2002
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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LEON COUNTY DATA:
CD
common_places.shp
20050718
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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MARTIN COUNTY DATA:
<http://ap3server.martin.fl.us:7778/portal/page?_pageid=254,1997328&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL>
LawEnforcement.shp
12/05/2003
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901 *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY DATA:
Miami-Dade County Fire Station
lpolimun.shp
April 30, 2005
Coordinate System: STATEPLANE Zone: 3601 Datum: North American Datum of 1983
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MJPRIS_JUL07 DATA:
FGDL Layer
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MONROE COUNTY DATA:
<http://monroecofl.virtualtownhall.net/Pages/MonroeCoFL_GIS/index>
CRISTICALFACILITIES.shp
12/15/2005
Coordinate system name: Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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NCFRPC DATA:
DVD 5/9/2006
cXX_lawsta.shp
FGDL ABLERS NAD83 HARN
The NCFRPC data and the NEFRPC data had been combined previously to create the dataset layer lawstat_d2_jun06.shp The lawstat_d2_jun06.shp layer was a polygon layer. The polygon layer was converted to points and then joined to the statewide layer. The old AUTOID nunmbers of the lawstat_d2_jun06.shp layer can be found in the new statewide layer in the OLD_AUTOID field. Only one point did not transfer over. AUTOID 3 from the lawstat_d2_jun06.shp layer was a duplication of the AUTOID 126 and so it was removed from the statewide layer.
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NEFRPC DATA:
DVD
nefrc_regional_leo_stations_polys_final_05_30_2006.shp
5/30/2006
Parcel Centroids
FGDL ABLERS NAD83 HARN
The NCFRPC data and the NEFRPC data had been combined previously to create the dataset layer lawstat_d2_jun06.shp The lawstat_d2_jun06.shp layer was a polygon layer. The polygon layer was converted to points and then joined to the statewide layer. The old AUTOID nunmbers of the lawstat_d2_jun06.shp layer can be found in the new statewide layer in the OLD_AUTOID field. Only one point did not transfer over. AUTOID 3 from the lawstat_d2_jun06.shp layer was a duplication of the AUTOID 126 and so it was removed from the statewide layer.
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OKALOOSA COUNTY DATA:
<ftp://ftpgis.co.okaloosa.fl.us/public/Shape%20Files/Service_Facility>
cfspt.shp
20061004
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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PALM BEACH COUNTY DATA:
<ftp://ftp.co.palm-beach.fl.us/>
eng.zip
2/21/2008
LANDMARKS.shp
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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PINELLAS COUNTY DATA:
<http://gis.pinellascounty.org/gisData/gisDataSets.aspx>
Parcels Parcel Base data in Shapefile format. Refer to the parcel_metadata.doc. Also included are listings of municipal codes, existing land use codes and future land use codes. SHP Data is provided at a Countywide Scale - Last Updated: 2/16/2008 SHP Parcels - (37.3 MB)
Used NOTE1 field to determine sheriff and police Stations.
Projection: Florida West State Plane; Horizontal datum: NAD27 (North American Datum of 1927); Unit of measure: U.S. foot
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POLK COUNTY DATA:
<ftp://www.polk-county.net/Customer08/Emergency> gisdata, data
Firestations100507.shp
10/05/07
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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POLK SHERIFF DATA:
<http://www.polksheriff.org/le/>
GeoCoded to TelAtlas Streets dataset.
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SANTA ROSA COUNTY DATA:
Email Brandon W. Knuth Computer Support/Network Specialist Santa Rosa County BOCC Computer/GIS Department Office #: 850-983-1949 Cell #: 850-393-4144 Fax #: 850-983-1861 brandonk@santarosa.fl.gov <http://www.santarosa.fl.gov/>
SheriffSubStation.shp
20060411
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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SARASOTA COUNTY DATA:
<http://gis.co.sarasota.fl.us/data_download_page.asp>
SHERIFFOFFICES.shp
12/30/2007
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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SEMINOLE COUNTY DATA:
<http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/it/gis/layerbib2.asp>
facility.shp
12/31/2001
Coordinate system name: Projected coordinate system name: State Plane *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY DATA:
Email James Voss St. Lucie County GIS Department 772-462-1858 vossj@stlucieco.gov
St.LucieCounty_Critical_Facilities.shp
20060622
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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SUPERPAGES DATA:
GeoCoded against Tel ATLAS
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WALTON COUNTY DATA:
<http://gisftp.co.walton.fl.us/>
Points of Interest.zip
Police_and_Sheriff.shp
20070921
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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WEBSITE DATA:
Various County websites
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-Upper cased all records. -Added DESCRIPT field based on NAME -Socio-Cultural Effect data fields and definitions were added. USNG_FL_1K, OLD_AUTOID, FLAG, UPDATE_DAY, AUTOID, NAME, ADDRESS, CITY, ZIPCODE, OPERATING, OP_CLASS, SERVICES, COMMON_USE, USE, YR_BUILT, FGDLAQDATE.