A note about data scale:
Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modelling 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>
Land Aquisitiong: <http://www.sfwmd.gov/site/index.php?id=10>
Project Information: <http://www.evergladesplan.org/pm/landing_pp.cfm>
USGS compendium on South Florida: <http://www.sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/index.html>
The primary source of parcel boundary lines is the digital parcel boundary data derived from county programs. These are transferred or copied from district copies of the county layers. Parcel information maintained in an Oracle data base has been joined to the GIS spatial layers, and additional fields added, to produce the coverage attribute tables.
- All fields in the table were upcased. - The GIS Acres field was recalculated using x-tools. - The following fields contained no data and were deleted: ACQUISITION, CURRENT_NO, CLOSING_OW, PRIOR_NON - A DESCRIPT field was added based on PROJECT_NA - Slivers were removed.
The original coverage had 47 attribute columns in the polygon attribute table. Many of these were derived from IRIS Oracle database. Some of the attribute items were not populated. The most thorough attribution is associated with lands already acquired or in active process.
MAPPING ESTATE (renamed by GeoPlan to MAPPING_ES for ArcGIS field length compatibility). - Primary entries for the item 'Mapping Estate' are listed below:
Fee (Warranty) FEE Easement ESMT Non-Fee Interest NON-FEE Proposed Fee Acquisition PROPFEE Proposed Easement PROPESMT