FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: RAILROADS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA - 2014

Geodataset Name:       RAILS_TRANSTAT_2014
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polyline
Feature Count:         3462
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains railroad locations in the State of Florida and was created by the Florida Department of Transportation. This product was created using event mapping of Rail tabular data against the Rail Linear Referencing System (LRS) using a unique Rail identifier and mile points from the tabular data. This product is for reference purposes only and is not to be construed as a legal document or survey instrument. Any reliance on the information contained herein is at the user's own risk. The Florida Department of Transportation assumes no responsibility for any use of the information contained herein or any loss resulting therefrom.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Department of Transportation, Systems Planning Office
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     24000
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20140212 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 20140212 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: RAILS_TRANSTAT_2014
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
RROUTE
8 String
RRCO
50 String
SUBDIV
50 String
SIS
50 String
RRCLASS
50 String
LINESTAT
50 String
LINETYPE
50 String
TYPECMMT
50 String
CNTY_NAME
32 String
FDOT_DIST
10 String
SHAPE_LENG
8 Double
BEGIN_POST
8 Double
END_POST
8 Double
ROADSIDE
1 String
MILEAGE
8 Double
COUNTY
4 String
SISFACTP
8 Double
ROADWAY
8 String
DIR_CD
10 String
DESCRIPT
20 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

RROUTE Railroad Route Informations.

RRCO Railroad Companies Name.

SUBDIV SUB Division Name

SIS SIS Information

RRCLASS Railroad Class Type . Associates a class type within the Railroad facilities

LINESTAT Railroad Status

LINETYPE Railroad Line Type.

TYPECMMT TYPECMMT

CNTY_NAME County Name

FDOT_DIST FDOT Districts

SHAPE_LENG Total Length

BEGIN_POST Denotes the lowest milepoint for the record

END_POST Denotes the highest milepoint for the record

ROADSIDE ROADSIDE

MILEAGE Total Mileage

COUNTY County Name

SISFACTP Identifies Railroad facilities within the designated SIS and emerging SIS Railroads, and designated SIS and emerging SIS Railroad connectors and others.

ROADWAY Undefined by source

DIR_CD Undefined by source

DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on LINETYPE

FGDLAQDATE Date GeoPlan acquired data from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.LEN Length 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.

The Railroad feature class covers the state of Florida at a scale of 1:24,000 with a 
projection system of Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) 17 North and a 
horizontal datum of North American 1983 (NAD 1983). The map units are in meters.

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

This product is for reference purposes only and is not to be construed as a legal 
document or survey instrument. Any reliance on the information contained herein is 
at the user's own risk. The Florida Department of Transportation assumes no 
responsibility for any use of the information contained herein or any loss resulting 
therefrom.

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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
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1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such
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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

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DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Data received from the Florida Department of Transportation via email from 
Khaleda.Hatim@dot.state.fl.us on Wed, 12 Feb 2014. When received data was in 
shapefile format and in UTM Zone 17 NAD83 projection. Data was projected from 
UTM to FGDL Albers.

The following QaQc procedures were performed:
-removed fields OBJECTID and FID_RAILS_
-exported FGDC metadata from version 10.x metadata and imported to 9.x metadata
-renamed from rail2014.shp to rails_transtat_2014.shp
-upcased all record
-added DESCRIPT field based on LINETYPE
-added FGDLAQDATE field based on date acquired from source
Process Date: 20140213

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

DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):

Name:
Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:
Florida Department of Transportation, Systems Planning Office
FDOT
605 Suwannee St. MS-19
Tallahassee, FL
32399
(850)414-4907

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/about.shtm khaleda.hatim@dot.state.fl.us Khaleda Hatim

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