FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT LANDS - JANUARY 2010

Geodataset Name:       WMDL_JAN10
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         25070
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This data set contains water management district owned lands for the state of Florida. Potential acquisitions are also included for South Florida, St. John's River, and Southwest Florida water management districts. This data is available by district for each respective water management district. This dataset was compiled from those datasets at the University of Florida GeoPlan Center
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20100119 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 20100119 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: WMDL_JAN10.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
WMD
7 String
NAME
75 String
TYPE
40 String
DLANDTYPE
30 String
COMMENTS
254 String
ACRES
8 Double
DESCRIPT
75 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

WMD Water Management District where the land is located
NWFWMD = Northwest Florida Water Management District

SFWMD = South Florida Water Management District

SJRWMD = St. Johns River Water Management District

SRWMD = Suwannee River Water Management District

SWFWMD = Southwest Florida Water Management District


NAME Name by which district parcel is known

TYPE Type of district land
0 = Undefined

1 = SWFWMD Fee Acquisition

2 = SWFWMD Less-than-fee Acquisition

3 = SWFWMD Proposed Fee Acquisition

4 = SWFWMD Proposed Less-than-fee Acquisition

5 = SWFWMD Perpetual Easement

73 = SJRWMD Potential acquisition

74 = SJRWMD Potential acquisition full fee only

ACCESS ESMT NO PUB = Ingress Egress with no public access allowed

ACCESS ESMT PUB = Ingress Egress with public access allowed

CE QUALITY COMM = Conservation Easement, no public access, Quality Community Acquisition

CONSERVATION ESMT = Conservation Easement, no public access

DEED RESTRICTED = Disposed with some retained interest

DISPOSAL = Undefined by Source

DISPOSED = Properties formerly owned by the district. District retains no interest

DISPOSED QUALITY COMM = Disposed Quality Community

ESMT = Easement

ESMT PENDING = Easement Pending

ESMT/PROPESMT DISPOSAL = Easement/Proposed Easement Disposal

ESMT/PROPESMT SURPLUS = Undefined by Source

ESMT/PROPFEE = Easement Proposed Fee Acquisition

EXTERNAL PARTNER - ESMT = External Partner Easement

EXTERNAL PARTNER - FEE = External Partner Fee (Warranty)

EXTERNAL PARTNER-PROPFEE = External Partner Proposed Fee Acquisition

FEE = Water Management District owns outright (FEE Simple)

FEE - LIFE ESTATE = Undefined by Source

FEE PENDING = Fee (Warranty) Pending

FEE QUALITY COMM = Fee Simple, Quality Community acquisition

FEE W/ ACCESS = Fee with access easement granted to another party

FEE W/ CE = Fee with conservation easement

FEE W/ PUBLIC ROAD = Fee with prescriptive easement

FEE W/ UTILITY = Fee with utility easement

FEE/PROPESMT = Fee Proposed Easement

FEE/PROPFEE DISPOSAL = Undefined by Source

FEE/PROPFEE SURPLUS = Undefined by Source

JOINT FEE = Undefined by Source

LESS THEN FEE = Undefined by Source

LTF = Water Management District owns a Conservation Easement (CE).

NONE = Undefined by Source

OUT PARCEL = Undefined by Source

PROP TRACT USE AGREEMENT = Undefined by Source

PROPESMT = Proposed Easement

PROPFEE = Proposed Fee Acquisition

TRACT USE AGREEMENT = Undefined by Source


DLANDTYPE District land interest description.
DISTRICT OWNED EASEMENT = Parcel represents an easement owned by the water management district

DISTRICT OWNED LAND = Parcel represents land owned by the water management district

FORMERLY DISTRICT OWNED LAND = Parcel represents land formerly owned by the water management district that has been disposed

POTENTIAL DISTRICT EASEMENT = Parcel represents an easement that has been proposed for purchase by the water management district

POTENTIAL DISTRICT LAND = Parcel represents land proposed for purchase by the water management district

UNDEFINED BY SOURCE = No definition for these parcels were provided by source


COMMENTS Comments

ACRES Acreage

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on water management district DLANDTYPE field

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date downloaded from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters


USER NOTES:
SWFWMD:

A frequency table of the Parcel layer is created which contains the parcel number 
and acreage. This table is compared with a parcel list of parcels that have been 
acquired.
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.
SJRWMD:
The St. Johns River Water Management District prepares and uses information 
for its own purposes and this information may not be suitable for other purposes.  
This information is provided "as is". Further documentation of this data can be 
obtained by contacting: St. Johns River Water Management District, Division 
of Integrated Application Systems, Post Office Box 1429, Palatka, Florida, 
32178-1429, (386) 329-4500.

SRWMD:
Data portrays all interests, current and past,  within SRWMD District.

SWFWMD:
This data set were created to show the locations of proposed District 
owned land. It should be used for cartographic and resource management 
purposes only.

Overlay of acquired maps with 1:24000 USGS quadrangle maps and 
comparisons of relatively well-defined features such as roads and rivers 
determined the accuracy to be +/- 13 meters. The above value is estimated 
to meet National Map Accuracy Standards for 1:24,000 maps.

These files are continuously updated as new lands are proposed or acquired. 
The contractor for the Green Swamp and Lower Hillsborough, FDA was: Professional 
Engineering Consultants, Inc 200 East Robinson Street, Suite 1560 Orlando, 
Florida 32801 (407) 422-8062

Additional Information: (352) 796-7211 

SFWMD:
Boundary lines are derived primarily from digital versions of county parcel 
maps. It should be noted that the boundaries contained in this dataset are 
based on the best information available at the time of entry. Although some 
boundaries are based on survey data, this dataset is a graphical representation 
and should be construed as such. In no way should this data be construed 
as survey accurate.

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

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS systems 
for a variety of planning and analytical purposes.

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

SWFWMD:
These data were not collected under the supervision of a licensed Professional 
Surveyor and Mapper. Use of these data requires a general understanding of GIS.

SJRWMD:
The St. Johns River Water Management District prepares and uses information 
for its own purposes and this information may not be suitable for other purposes. 
This information is provided "as is". Further documentation of this data can be 
obtained by contacting: St. Johns River Water Management District, Division 
of Integrated Application Systems, Post Office Box 1429, Palatka, Florida, 
32178-1429, (386) 329-4500.

SRWMD:
SRWMD requests that all reports and maps that utilize this data layer 
include the following text:

SRWMD shall not be held liable for any injury or damage caused by the 
use of the data distributed as a public records request regardless of their 
use or application. SRWMD does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or 
suitability for any use of this data, and no warranty is expressed or implied. 

SFWMD:
This map is a conceptual tool utilized for project development only. 
This map is not self-executing or binding, and does not otherwise 
affect the interests of any persons including any vested rights or 
existing uses of real property.

The Florida Geographic Data Library is a collection of Geospatial Data
compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from
the Florida Department of Transportation. GIS data available in FGDL is
collected from various state, federal, and other agencies (data sources)
who are data stewards, producers, or publishers. The data available in
FGDL may not be the most current version of the data offered by the
data source. University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no guarantees
about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check
with the data source to see if more recent versions of the data exist.

Furthermore, the GIS data available in the FGDL are provided 'as is'.
The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no warranties, guaranties
or representations as to the truth, accuracy or completeness of the data
provided by the data sources. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center
makes no representations or warranties about the quality or suitability
of the materials, either expressly or implied, including but not limited
to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, or non-infringement. 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.

A note about data scale: 

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:
Northwest Florida WMD - http://www.nwfwmd.state.fl.us/
Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, 
Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson (western half), Leon, 
Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, 
& Washington  	

81 Water Management Drive
Havana, FL  32333
850/539-5999

Suwannee River WMD - http://www.srwmd.state.fl.us/
Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, 
Madison, Suwannee, Taylor, Union and portions of 
Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Jefferson & Levy

9225 CR 49
Live Oak, FL 32060
386/362-1001

St. Johns River WMD - http://sjr.state.fl.us/
Brevard, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Indian River, Nassau, 
Seminole, St. Johns, Volusia, and portions of Alachua, 
Baker, Bradford, Lake, Marion, Okeechobee, Orange, 
Osceola & Putnam

P.O. Box 1429
Palatka, FL   32178-1429
386/329-4500

Southwest Florida WMD - http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/
Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, 
Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota, Sumter, and portions of 
Charlotte, Highlands, Lake, Levy, Marion & Polk

2379 Broad Street
Brooksville, FL  34604-6899
352/796-7211

South Florida WMD - http://www.sfwmd.gov/site/
Broward, Collier, Dade, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Martin, 
Monroe, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, and portions of Charlotte, 
Highlands, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola & Polk

3301 Gun Club Road
West Palm Beach, FL  33406
561/686-8800

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
NORTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: 
DERIVATION METHOD(S) FOR DATA 

PRE-AUTOMATION COMPILATION: COMPUTER HARDWARE USED: 
Sun OPERATING SYSTEM: Solaris 2.5.1 DATABASE SOFTWARE AND 
VERSION USED: ARC/INFO 7.1.1 GIS/MAPPING SOFTWARE AND 
VERSION USED: Digitization METHOD OF AUTOMATION: Digitization 


RESOLUTION OF AUTOMATION: .001 TOLERANCE OF DEGITIZER, 
SCANNER, ETC.: unknown INITIAL DATE OF AUTOMATION: unknown 
UPDATE SCHEDULE: n/a SIZE OF DIGITAL FILE: unknown FORMAT 
OF DIGITAL FILE: arc/info CONTROL POINTS - USGS Quads
Process Date: 20020320

GeoPlan downloaded this dataset from the Northwest Florida Water Management District website (http://www.nwfwmd.state.fl.us/pubsdata/GISdata.html) in Jan 2010. The data was downloaded as a shapefile and was in the following projection: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_16N. The dataset was projected to FGDL Albers HPGN. A new shapefile was exported with only the fields that are now available. Additional table information is available for each water management district in the shapefiles used to compile this dataset. See each individual water management districts download sites for these datasets. - All fields in the table were upcased. - An ACRES field was added and calculated using the ESRI tool calculate geometry. - A DLANDTYPE field was added based on the type of district owned land. This was determined using the TYPE field. - A DESCRIPT field was added based on DLANDTYPE - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source - Original file name was districtlands Process Date: 20100106
ST. JOHNS WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: Feature Class was imported into new geodatabase and reprojected into UTM Harn Zone 17 from State Plane East NAD 83 Process Date: 200601
GeoPlan downloaded this dataset in three separate parts from the St. Johns River Water Management District. District parcels and conservations easements were downloaded from the SJRWMD website (http://www.sjrwmd.com/gisdevelopment/docs/themes.html) in Jan 2010. Potential acquisitions were received January 8th 2010 by email. April Tomlinson (atomlinson@sjrwmd.com) is the point of contact for SJRWMD Potential Acquisitions. These three data layers were downloaded in shapefile format and were in the following projection: NAD 1983 HARN UTM Zone 17N. Each dataset was projected from NAD 1983 HARN UTM Zone 17N to FGDL Albers HPGN Each shapefile was exported with only the fields that are now available. Additional table information is available for each water management district in the shapefiles used to compile this dataset. See each individual water management districts download sites for these datasets. The three shapefiles were merged using the Merge command in ArcCatalog to create a single shapefile containing district parcels, conservation easements, and potential acquisitions for SJRWMD. - Upcased all records in the table. - An ACRES field was added and calculated using the ESRI tool calculate geometry. - A DLANDTYPE field was added based on the type of district owned land. This was determined using the TYPE field. - Added a DESCRIPT field based on DLANDTYPE. - Added a FGDLAQDATE field based on date downloaded from source - Original file names were SJRWMD_Parcels, cons_easements, and 2010potential Process Date: 20100106
SUWANNEE RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: GeoPlan received this dataset from the Suwannee River Water Management District via email in Jan 2010. The data was downloaded as a shapefile and was in the following projection: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet. The dataset was projected to FGDL Albers HPGN. A new shapefile was exported with only the fields that are now available. Additional table information is available for each water management district in the shapefiles used to compile this dataset. See each individual water management districts download sites for these datasets. - All fields in the table were upcased. - An ACRES field was added and calculated using the ESRI tool calculate geometry. - A DLANDTYPE field was added based on the type of district owned land. This was determined using the TYPE field. - A DESCRIPT field was added based on DLANDTYPE - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source - Original file name was srwmd_ownership Process Date: 20100119
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: PROPOSED Areas targeted for acquisition were delineated on USGS 7.5 quadrangles or paper copies of USGS color infrared (CIR) DOQQ's. Process Date: Unknown USGS 1:24,000 Quadrangles were tied down with a minimum of four control points. Project boundaries were digitized onscreen using ArcEdit software with the USGS color infrared DOQQ's as a backdrop. Topology was generated using the ArcINFO BUILD command. Attribute items were added to the feature attribute table and the appropriate attribute assigned to each polygon. The method of choice now is to use heads-up digitizing on-screen with the DOQQ's as a backdrop in ArcEdit. Process Date: 20070720 AQUIRED FEE AND LESS-THAN-FEE ACQUISITIONS The ground control surveys used for creating the majority of these data were made by the Survey section of the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD). Some surveys were completed by individual survey firms under contract to the seller, but had to meet the Southwest Florida Water Management District Survey Section's requirements. A Professional Surveyor verified these from the Survey section of the SWFWMD. For large multi-parcel acquisition projects, such as the Green Swamp and Annutteliga Hammock, surveys were not obtained for the small tracts (most are less than 20 acres). Sketches were made based on the legal descriptions. These projects are located in Lake, Polk and Hernando counties. Process Date: 20070720 This layer is derived from the District's Land Parcel layer. The ArcINFO DISSOLVE command was used to eliminate internal parcel lines and leave only the exterior project boundaries. A metadata report for the Parcel layer is available from the District. Each new parcel is combined with the existing coverage and attributed within ArcEdit. Topology is created for the coverage using CLEAN or BUILD. Since 2003, either a shapefile that is created in AutoCAD Map or a DXF file is provided of the parcel boundary. The file's projection is defined and then projected using ArcToolBox. The parcel is then combined with the existing Parcel feature class and attributed within ArcMap. The topology is validated and any errors corrected. Process Date: 20071017
GeoPlan downloaded this dataset from the Southwest Florida Water Management District website: (http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/data/gis/layer_library/category/land_resources) in January 2010. The data was downloaded as two shapefiles (DISTRICTLANDSACQUIRED and DISTRICTLANDSPROPOSED) and were in the following projection: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_17N. The datasets were merged and projected to FGDL Albers HPGN. A new shapefile was exported with only the fields that are now available. Additional table information is available for each water management district in the shapefiles used to compile this dataset. See each individual water management districts download sites for these datasets. - All fields in the table were upcased. - An ACRES field was added and calculated using the ESRI tool calculate geometry. - A DLANDTYPE field was added based on the type of district owned land. This was determined using the TYPE field. - A DESCRIPT field was added based on DLANDTYPE - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source - Original file names were DISTRICTLANDSACQUIRED and DISTRICTLANDSPROPOSED Process Date: 20100106
SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: Parcels included in this data base are those for which the District has obtained an interest (fee, easement, 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://my.sfwmd.gov/gisapps/sfwmdxwebdc/dataview.asp) in January 2010. 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 to FGDL Albers HPGN. A new shapefile was exported with only the fields that are now available. Additional table information is available for each water management district in the shapefiles used to compile this dataset. See each individual water management districts download sites for these datasets. - All fields in the table were upcased. - An ACRES field was added and calculated using the ESRI tool calculate geometry. - A DLANDTYPE field was added based on the type of district owned land. This was determined using the TYPE field. - A DESCRIPT field was added based on DLANDTYPE - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source - Original file name was cdrelacq Process Date: 20100106
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20100301
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

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http://www.dep.state.fl.us/secretary/watman/ data@geoplan.ufl.edu Danny Downing

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