FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2005
TITLE: BUS TRANSIT STOPS
Geodataset Name: TRSTP Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: LINE
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the Shapefile data for Florida's public transit stops by county.
DATA SOURCE(S): Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS: UNKNOWN DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: October 2001 GEODATASET EXTENT: County wide coverage for major urban areas.FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:
Datafile Name: TRSTP.DBF NAME WIDTH TYPE PRECISION ID 11 DECIMAL 0 STOP 20 CHARACTER 0 COUNTY 50 CHARACTER 0 DESCRIPT 50 CHARACTER 0
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:
ITEM ITEM DESCRIPTION ID Record Identification Number STOP Stop Number COUNTY County Name DESCRIPT FGDL added item based on County
USER NOTES:
There are known errors in the spatial accuracy of the following county's transit stops: Alachua, Dade, Lee, Volusia, Orange, Palm Beach.
A companion dataset, Bus Transit Routes (TRRTS) is available from FGDL.
When viewing this dataset in combination with a roads dataset, please use USGS 1:100,000 Tiger Roads, as many county's transit routes have been digitized using Tiger Roads as a backdrop.
A note concerning 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.
1:250000 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 section and 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
FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:
-Upcased all character records -Merged 22 county shapefiles to create TRRTS -Added COUNTY item based on county name -Added DESCRIPT item based on COUNTY
REFERENCES:
DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
The transit stops data were compiled by the Lehman Center for Transportation Research at Florida International University. Most of the county's data were collected from transit agencies. For transit agencies that had not developed GIS maps of the stops, the Lehman Center digitized those stops using USGS 1:100,000 Tiger Roads as a backdrop. The GeoPlan Center otained this data in shapefile format from the FDOT in 2002. Original datasets consisted of 22 county shapefiles; Alachua, Bay, Brevard, Broward, Dade, Duval, Escambia, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Leon, Manatee, Monroe, Orange,Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, Seminole and Volusia. The 22 county shapefiles were merged together to create this dataset. The original shapefiles for Orange, Osceola, Volusia and Seminole contained features for areas outside of each county, hence each shapefile was clipped to the respective county boundary.
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:
Projection ALBERS Units METERS Datum HPGN Spheroid GRS1980 1st standard parallel 24 0 0.000 2nd standard parallel 31 30 0.000 central meridian -84 0 0.000 latitude of projection's origin 24 0 0.000 false easting (meters) 400000.00000 false northing (meters) 0.00000
DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):
Name: Florida Department of Transportation Abbr.name: FDOT Address: 605 Suwannee Street, MS 26 Tallahassee, Florida 32399 Phone: 850-414-4532 Web site: www11.myflorida.com/transit Contact Person: Ike Ubaka Email: ike.ubaka@dot.state.fl.us
FGDL CONTACT:
Name: Florida Geographic Data Library Abbr. Name: FGDL Address: Florida Geographic Data Library 431 Architecture PO Box 115706 Gainesville, FL 32611-5706 Web site: http://www.fgdl.org Contact FGDL: Technical Support: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.html FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html FGDL Mailing Lists: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html For FGDL Software: http://www.fgdl.org/software.html