FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: PUBLIC USE AIRPORT RUNWAYS - 2009

Geodataset Name:       RUNWAY_2009
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polyline
Feature Count:         246
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset represents airport runway data for the state of Florida. This data was taken from The Airport Runways database which is a geographic dataset of runways in the United States and US territories containing information on the physical characteristics of the runways. The 6073 runways in the dataset are runways associated with the 20347 airports in the companion airport data set. This geospatial data is derived from the FAA's National Airspace System Resource Aeronautical Data Product (Effective 18 January 2009).
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Federal Aviation Administration
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 2009 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 2009 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: RUNWAY_2009.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
LOCID
4 String
SITENO
11 String
FULLNAME
42 String
FAA_ST
2 String
ID
7 String
LENGTH
5 String
WIDTH
4 String
SRFCTYPE
12 String
SRFCTRTMNT
5 String
PAVECLAS
11 String
RWYLGHTS
5 String
STFIPS
254 String
STPOSTAL
254 String
BASELAT
8 Double
BASELONG
8 Double
RECLAT
8 Double
RECLONG
8 Double
VERSION
50 String
DESCRIPT
42 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
SHAPE
4 Geometry
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

LOCID A unique 3-4 character identifier assigned to the landing facility (i.e. airport).

SITENO A unique identifying number followed by an asterisk and the 'landing facility type' code. The SITE_NO forms the key to the airport records in the NFDC (5010) database. Example: 04508.*A

FULLNAME Official name of the runway's airport.

FAA_ST Airport's associated state or territory name.

ID Runway unique identification code. For example: 01/19; 18L/36R (parallel runways); H1 (helipad); N/S (north/south); ALL/WAY (sealane); B1 (baloonport).

LENGTH The physical runway length, to the nearest foot. (Ex. 3500)

WIDTH The physical runway width, to the nearest foot. (Ex. 100)

SRFCTYPE Runway surface type and condition. (NOTE 1: Surface type can have one entry or a combination of two entries when the runway is composed of distinct sections.) (NOTE 2: The surface type is optionally followed by a condition indicator: G=Good Condition, F=Fair Condition, P=Poor Condition. Some valid examples for this attribute: ASPH-CONC, ASPH-F, ASPH-CONC-G)

SRFCTRTMNT Runway Surface treatment

PAVECLAS Pavement Classification Number (PCN): A rating system that expresses the relative load carrying capacity of a pavement in terms of a standard single wheel load.

RWYLGHTS Runway lights edge intensity

STFIPS The 2-character FIPS code of the State or State equivalent.

STPOSTAL Runway state post office code.

BASELAT Latitude of the base end of the runway.

BASELONG Longitude of the base end of the runway

RECLAT Latitude of the reciprocal end of the runway

RECLONG Longitude of the reciprocal end of the runway.

VERSION The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed.

DESCRIPT Name of Runway (based on FULLNAME field)

FGDLAQDATE GeoPlan Acquisition Date

SHAPE Feature geometry.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.LEN Length in meters


USER NOTES:
All linear features in this data set are straight lines.  ID is the unique identifier for 
each record in the dataset.  There may be more than one runway (ID) located at a 
single airport.  Airports can be individually identified by the landing facility location 
identifier (LOCID) or by the site number (SITENO) attribute.

RITA/BTS quality checks were to cross reference the place dataset with the 
state dataset, to determine that the spatial data and attribute data were accurate
Landing facilities in this database consist of those identified in the NFDC 5527 
database to be either publicly owned, or privately owned but open to the public, or 
owned by the U.S. military.  The following landing facilities have been excluded:  
private landing facilities not open to the public, glider ports and ultra light landing 
facilities, as well as landing facilities that do not have a current LOCID assigned to 
them.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

This data provides users with information about the runway locations and 
attributes for national and regional analysis applications.

Horizontal positional accuracy is based on coordinate data provided in the FAA 
National Airspace System Resource Aeronautical Dataset (Effective 18 January 
2008).  These coordinate data identify the approximate location of the Airport 
Reference Point (ARP) as reported by the landing facility on the NFDC (National 
Flight Data Center) 5010 form.  According to NFDC guidelines, the location of the 
ARP should be reported to a horizontal accuracy of one arc second of latitude 
and longitude.  However, the accuracy of these reported coordinates are not 
verified by FAA.

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

None. 

Acknowledgment of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the 
Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of  Transportation 
Statistics (RITA/BTS) National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2008 
would be appreciated in products derived from these data.

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compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from
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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

REFERENCES:
Bureau Transportation statistics:
http://www.bts.gov/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
The creation of this geospatial data layer was completed by RITA/BTS in 
February 2008. This Shapefile was derived from textual data on the FAA National 
Airspace System Resource Aeronautical Data CDROM, effective 18 January 
2008.   The Apt.txt file was converted into three files using the UNIX command 
grep.  The runway table structure was built in Oracle that followed the structure of 
the facility runway data described in the Apt_rf.txt file.  A control file was built for 
the desired runway data structure and SQL Loader was used to load the data into 
the database.  The degrees, minutes, and seconds' columns were converted into 
decimal degrees and ESRI products were used to create the runway linear 
dataset.
Process Date: 2008

-The Geoplan Center received the dataset 8/12/2009. -Records were selected where "STFIPS" = '12' to select only features in Florida. -Exported selection as a new layer -Reprojected data from GCS_WGS_1984 to Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library) -Added DESCRIPT field based on FULLNAME -Added FGDLAQDATE field and calculated to 8/12/2009 -Renamed the dataset from runway to runway_2009 Process Date: 20090825
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20090911
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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