FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: Florida Forest Service Facility Locations - 2015

Geodataset Name:       FFS_FACILITIES_2015
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         223
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains point locations of Florida Forest Service facilities.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20150407 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 20150407 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: FFS_FACILITIES_2015.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
DIST_ID
8 Double
REG_ID
8 Double
FAC_CODE
8 Double
ADDRESS
40 String
CITY
12 String
ZIP
8 Double
COMMENTS
100 String
IN_USE
2 String
FAC_NAMES
50 String
COUNTY
20 String
FAC_TYPE
30 String
DISTRICT
45 String
TOWER_STAT
20 String
DEP_COUNTY
4 Integer
FIPS_COUNT
4 Integer
Region
30 String
Proper_Nam
30 String
AltFacType
30 String
CoLocated
50 String
DESCRIPT
50 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

DIST_ID FFS District Number

REG_ID FFS Region Number

FAC_CODE Numeric Code used by the Fire Management Information System (FMIS)
1 = District Office

2 = State Forest Office

3 = Forestry Site

9 = Forestry Site - Tower

10 = Mitigation Team Office

11 = Other FFS Facility

12 = Aviation Facility

13 = Non-FFS Facility


ADDRESS Facility Address

CITY Facility City

ZIP Facility Zip Code

COMMENTS Additioanl description on facility

IN_USE in use by FFS YES or NO

FAC_NAMES Facility Name

COUNTY Facility County location

FAC_TYPE Facility Type
District Office = headquarters for a Center/District manager

Education Center = FFS facility used for education

Fish Hatchery = 

Forestry Site = Any other FFS site that is a permanent or temporary  headquarters for FFS personnel

Forestry Site - Tower = FFS site consisting of a tower location

Forestry Station = headquarters for a Forestry Area Supervisor

Mitigation Team Office = headquarters for mitigation team

Nursery = 

Recreation Area = facility for public access recreation

State Forest Office = headquarters for a state forest

State Office = FFS headquarters, Tallahassee

Training Center = facility used for FFS training


DISTRICT FFS District title and number

TOWER_STAT Tower status

DEP_COUNTY FL DEP county code

FIPS_COUNT FIPS county code

Region FFS Region

Proper_Nam County proper name

AltFacType Co-located FFS facilities - facilities located within the same general FFS location.

CoLocated Co-located facilities by name within an FFS location.

DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on TOWER_STAT

FGDLAQDATE Date GeoPlan acquired data from source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


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.

Maintain location of Florida Forestry Service Facility locations

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

none

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DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
This dataset was received in shapefile format from 
Scott.Taylor@freshfromflorida.com on April 8th, 2015. When received the data was 
in Albers HARN projection. The projection file was changed to match the FGDL 
ALBERS projection file.

TOWER_TYPE field renamed to TOWER_STAT

-All records upcased
-DESCRIPT field added based on FAC_NAMES
-FGDLAQDATE added based on date data received from source
Process Date: 20150410

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 Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service
FDACS-FFS
3125 Conner Blvd.
Tallahassee, FL
32399-1650
850-681-5860

http://www.freshfromflorida.com/Divisions-Offices/Florida-Forest-Service Scott.Taylor@freshfromflorida.com Scott B. Taylor

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