FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2007

TITLE: URBAN BOUNDARIES AUGUST 2005

Geodataset Name:       URBAN_AUG05
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         72
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Areas identified as urban, derived from Census files (2000). The boundaries were modified from the original boundaries received from the Census for FDOT purposes.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    U.S. Department of Transportation
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     1:100,000
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      20050818
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: URBAN_AUG05.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
NAME
254 String
DESCRIPT
35 String
FGDLAQDATE
8 Date
SHAPE
4 Geometry
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

NAME Name of urban area

DESCRIPT FGDL added item based on NAME

FGDLAQDATE Date FGDL acquired data

SHAPE Feature geometry.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters


USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
POLYGON

For reference of Urban Boundaries in the state of Florida

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

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

THE DATA INCLUDED IN FGDL ARE 'AS IS' AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED
AS LEGALLY BINDING. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER SHALL
NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING,
MODIFYING, CONTRIBUTING OR DISTRIBUTING THE MATERIALS.

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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:


DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
The urban boundaries shape file is based on the original urban boundaries
provided by the Census. Each District was tasked with smoothing the urban 
boundaries in their area, thus modifying the original data. This is done in
conjunction with updating functional classification, which is coded based on
urban or rural.
The data was received by Central Office GIS from each District. The data was
quality checked for duplicate polygons, slivers, null values for  Name , etc, and 
returned to the Districts if cleanup was necessary.
Once all of the urban boundaries from each District were received and verified for
quality, they were merged into one shape file. This file was examined in Central 
Office along with functional classification roads to ensure that roads that fell along 
the urban boundary were completely within or outside of the urban boundary. With
guidance from the Districts, some urban boundaries were modified very slightly to
ensure that roads are completely within or outside of the urban boundary.
Process Date: 20050818

GeoPlan downloaded this dataset from the Florida Department of Transportation website (http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/default.htm#boundaries) in March 2007. The data downloaded was in shapefile format and was in the following projection: UTM Zone17 NAD83 . Process Date: 20070308
Deleted: area, perimeter Created: Descript Based Descript on Name Reprojected data to FGDL Albers HPGN Renamed original file name "urban" to "urban_aug05" Process Date: 20070308
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:
Florida Department of Transportation
FDOT
Transportation Statistics Office, Mail Station 27 605 Suwannee Street
Tallahassee, FL
32399-0450
(850) 414-4848

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/default.htm#boundaries Paul O'Rourke

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