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
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