FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: FLORIDA HOUSE VOTING DISTRICTS - 2002

Geodataset Name:       HDIST_DEC08
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         120
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the boundaries for the State of Florida House Voting Districts, as redrawn by the Florida Legislature in 2002. This layer is an update of the previous version in FGDL and consists only of attribute updates. Linework for districts changes every 10 years based on the census. House members listed are for the regular session 2009.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Florida Legislature
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     N/A
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20020401 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 20020401 End Date: 20081219 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: HDIST_DEC08.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
DISTRICT
4 Integer
ACRES
8 Double
SQ_MILES
8 Double
PARTY
9 String
REPRESENTA
40 String
DESCRIPT
18 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
SHAPE
4 Geometry
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

DISTRICT House voting district identification number.

ACRES Size of district in acres.

SQ_MILES Square mileage of district.

PARTY Political party of representative.

REPRESENTA Name of representative.

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on DISTRICT

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date downloaded from source.

SHAPE Feature geometry.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters


USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

This data set provides FL House Districts as well as contact information 
for FL Representatives.

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

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

NONE

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REFERENCES:
Office of Economic and Demographic Research:
http://edr.state.fl.us/redistricting/districts.htm

See also the document:
2002 District Metadata.doc available from EDR

House representatives for regular session 2009 updated from:
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/SECTIONS/Representatives/representatives.aspx

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
All data was created based on Tiger data but districts were created 
by redistricting  using the 2000 Census Blocks in ArcView 3.2
Process Date: Unknown

GeoPlan downloaded this data from the Office of Economic and Demographic Research website (http://edr.state.fl.us/redistricting/districts.htm) on 3/3/2008. The data was downloaded in shapefile format and was in the following projection: D_North_American_1983_HARN The previous FGDL version of this dataset was projected based on D_North_American_1983 which was incorrect. This update from EDR consists only of attribute updates. Linework for districts changes every 10 years based on the census. -Added 'DESCRIPT' field based on 'DISTRICT'. -Added field 'FGDLAQDATE' based on date downloaded from source. -Excluded and exported 'FREDS 2000' statistical information into supplemental table (SEE USER NOTES). Process Date: 20080303
GeoPlan edited the tabular information of this dataset on 12/19/2008 to represent members for the regular session 2009. Members taken from: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/SECTIONS/Representatives/representatives.aspx Process Date: 20081219
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20081229
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

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Office of Economic and Demographic Research
EDR
111 W. Madison St., Suite 574
Tallahassee, FL
32399
(850) 487-0400

http://edr.state.fl.us/redistricting/districts.htm HUFFMAN.DARYL@leg.state.fl.us Daryl Huffman

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