FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2005

TITLE: SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT LANDS - 2005

Geodataset Name:       SFDL
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    POLYGON
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset includes South Florida Water Management District parcels that have been acquired by the District or are proposed for acquisition. This layer is an update of the SFWMD_LANDS layer released with FGDL Version 2004.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    South Florida Water Management District
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     N/A
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      Updated daily
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 South Florida Water Management District

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: SFDL.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE N. DECIMAL DEGREES
FID
4 OID ---
Shape
0 Geometry ---
SFWMD_OWN_
11 Number ---
ACQ_ID
12 String ---
COMMENTS
254 String ---
GIS_ACRES
19 Number 9
TRACT_ACQU
9 String ---
CURRENT_FE
67 String ---
ADDRESS_1
40 String ---
ADDRESS_2
40 String ---
CITY
32 String ---
STATE
2 String ---
ZIP
10 String ---
PRIOR_FEE_
67 String ---
COMPONENT1
70 String ---
PROJECT_NA
70 String ---
COUNTY_NAM
20 String ---
REGION_NAM
40 String ---
PARCEL_NO
24 String ---
ACREAGE
19 Number 9
ACREAGE_SO
15 String ---
MAPPING_ES
26 String ---
MAPPING_WO
26 String ---
CURRENT_DI
20 String ---
PROPOSED_D
20 String ---
CURR_EXTER
20 String ---
PROP_EXTER
20 String ---
SECTION
19 Number 9
TOWNSHIP
19 Number 9
RANGE
19 Number 9
LOT
6 String ---
BLOCK
6 String ---
SUBDIV
100 String ---
COMPONENT2
24 String ---
PROJECT_TY
24 String ---
PERCENT_AC
4 String ---
COMPONENT3
16 String ---
WMD_NO
40 String ---
SFWOWN_ID
19 Number 9
TRACT_APPL
48 String ---
TRACT_FINA
8 String ---
DESCRIPT
70 String ---

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
FID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

SFWMD_OWN_ Polygon Unique Identifier

ACQ_ID Acquisition ID

COMMENTS Polygon Comment

GIS_ACRES Acres of polygon

TRACT_ACQU Tract Acquisition ID - Same as ACQ_ID

CURRENT_FE Current Land Owner

ADDRESS_1 Land Owner Address

ADDRESS_2 Land Owner Address 2

CITY City

STATE State

ZIP Zip

PRIOR_FEE_ Grantor

COMPONENT1 Component Name

PROJECT_NA Project Name

COUNTY_NAM County Tract is located in

REGION_NAM Region Tract is located in

PARCEL_NO Folio No., PCN, APN, PIN. Property Appraiser assigned property identifier

ACREAGE Acres of Record

ACREAGE_SO Source of Acres - Survey, Tax Roll, Deed or Calculations

MAPPING_ES District current or proposed interest in the tract

MAPPING_WO Mapping workflow status: Where tract is in the acquisition process

CURRENT_DI Current District Interest

PROPOSED_D Proposed District Interest

CURR_EXTER Current External Partner Interest

PROP_EXTER Proposed External Partner Interest

SECTION Section Number

TOWNSHIP Township

RANGE Range

LOT Lot Number

BLOCK Block

SUBDIV Subdivision

COMPONENT2 Component Type - SOR, CERP, WOD or Other

PROJECT_TY Type of Project - SOR, CERP, WOD or Other

PERCENT_AC Percent of Acres used for assigned component

COMPONENT3 Primary Component tract is assigned to

WMD_NO Water Management District number

SFWOWN_ID Primary Key to relational table SFWOWN

TRACT_APPL Tract Application Number - Same value as ACQ_ID

TRACT_FINA Tract Financial ID - same as Tract Application Number without the dash

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on PROJECT_NA

USER NOTES:
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
South Florida water managemente district lands (SFDL) is one of many data sets that show boundaries and attributes of property parcels related to District projects.  It is a compilation of coverages of individual properties or groups of properties. Other related layers are the District Right of Ways, CERP Project boundaries, Save Our Rivers Project Boundaries, Public Lands, and digital county parcel maps.  These maps are used by many different business functions at SFWMD and other agencies.  The official and most current version of lands for acquisition is maintained by the Land Acquisition Division, named 'sfwownall'.   There is a copy in the GIS enterprise library in \\gisdata1\gislib\vector\district\cadastre\real_estate\parcel_acquisition_area\cdrelacq.

The most complete dataset is named 'sfwownall'. It has approx. 24,000 Tracts related to water resource projects, including many types of ownership status, and many different owners, both public and private. Attribution attached to the parcels in the GIS data base shows the project name, acreage, type of estate (mostly fee or proposed fee acquisition), current owner, a tract ID and various management details for each parcel.

A detailed guide to this data base is not available at this time, and is not essential for general usage and understanding. Users should note that there is a substantial body of information about the projects themselves on the Land Acquisition web site as well as others.

For more information about the Land Acquisition Program and related projects, users should visit the applicable intraweb and internet web sites. A central site for Land Acquisition is at http://www.sfwmd.gov/site/index.php?id=10. Along with general information about the program, this site contains a detailed description of each project and maps at different scales.

Project information is also available at the site www.evergladesplan.org. A complete list of CERP projects is found at ww.evergladesplan.org/pm/projects/index.shtml, which contains links to management plans, calendars, related projects, a glossary of terms, and a tool to select projects by interactive map query. For additional information users may also contact: The referenced data steward for this spatial layer, and associated development staff. The metadata specialist and others on staff at GIS Services Division, SFWMD. The contacts and resources listed on the District's web site at www.sfwmd.com. The USGS compendium of information about the South Florida environment at www.sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/index.html.

Users can view additional metadata details for this and hundreds of other enterprise GIS layers in tabular format by going to the GIS data catalog at the district intraweb site.

Comprehensive parcel maps are available in digital format for most of the District, from county and other sources. The county parcel maps have extensive attribution used for appraisal and other purposes. For more information about obtaining and using the digital parcel maps contact the Land Acquisition data stewards or land use specialists in GIS Services at the District.

IRIS is the Intergrated Real Estate Information System. The IRIS database is an Oracle database that stores all of the tablular information in a highly normalized (3rd normal form) database structure. The SFWOWNALL SDE feature class is a view to denormalize for ease of distribution.

A note concerning data scale:

Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale 
datasetsare 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.

1:250000 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 analyses. Every 
effort has been made to supply the user with data 
documentation. For additional information, see the 
References sectionand the Data Source Contact section of 
this documentation. For more information regarding scale 
and accuracy, see our web pages at:

http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
South Florida Water Management District:
http://www.sfwmd.gov/site/

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

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Parcels included in this data base are those for which 
the District has obtained an interest (fee, easment, flow 
easement, etc) or have been proposed for acquisition.  
For more information about the selection process see 
the land acquisition web site at 
http://www.sfwmd.gov/site/index.php?id=10. 

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.
Process Date: Unknown

GeoPlan downloaded this dataset from the South Florida Water Management District website (http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/gisit/index.html) in April 2005. The data downloaded was in shapefile format and in the following projection: NAD 83 State Plane Florida East FIPS 0901 Feet. The dataset was projected from NAD 83 to FGDL Albers HPGN. - 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. Process Date: 20050428
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:
South Florida Water Management District
SFWMD
3301 Gun Club Rd
West Palm Beach, FL
33416-4680
561.682.2875

http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/gisit/index.html Frank S. Razem, GISP

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                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
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