FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: NOAA OFFICE SERVICE BOUNDARIES

Geodataset Name:       NOAABND
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    POLYGON
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the service area boundaries of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) offices in the state of Florida.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     1:100000
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      2004
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: NOAABND.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE N. DECIMAL DEGREES
FID
4 OID ---
SHAPE
0 Geometry ---
OFFICE
254 String ---
CNT_OFFICE
9 Number ---
DESCRIPT
20 String ---

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
FID Internal feature number.

SHAPE Feature geometry.

OFFICE Location of NOAA office that serves the county in question.

CNT_OFFICE Number of polygons that fall under a particular NOAA office's jurisdiction

DESCRIPT Based on OFFICE field

USER NOTES:
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.


A note concerning data scale:

Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets 
are not suitablefor 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
REFERENCES:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
http://www.noaa.gov/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:

The NOAABND shapefile was created using the FGDL county 
boundary version 2003 shapefile as a basemap. An OFFICE field 
was added and calculated according to which of the four NOAA 
offices served each individual county. The shapefile was then dissolved 
on the OFFICE field.

The Shapefile was left as single part so the table contains only 
four records, one for each NOAA District. The shapefile can be 
converted to multipart so as to have the table represent items 
such as islands and coastal features as individual records.
Process Date: 20040720

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:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA
2234 South Hobson Ave.
Charleston, SC
29405
843-740-1210

http://www.noaa.gov/ csc@csc.noaa.gov
FGDL CONTACT:
Name:                   FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY
Abbr. Name:             FGDL
Address:                Florida Geographic Data Library
                        431 Architecture Building
                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
Web site:               http://www.fgdl.org

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