FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL BOUNDARIES IN FLORIDA - JANUARY 2016

Geodataset Name:       RPCBND_JAN16
Geodataset Type:       SDE Feature Class
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         10
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the regional planning council boundaries for the state of Florida.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 2016 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 2016 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: RPCBND_JAN16.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
RPC_NAME
128 String
DESCRIPT
25 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.

RPC_NAME Regional Planning Council Name

DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on RPC_NAME

FGDLAQDATE GeoPlan added field based on date received from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters


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

The purpose of this data set is to provide the boundaries of the ten regional 
planning councils of the state of Florida for the purposes of research and planning.

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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compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from
the Florida Department of Transportation. GIS data available in FGDL is
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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.
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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:
GeoPlan received this data from Regina Colson of the Florida Department of 
Transportation in May 2016. When received the data was in the Albers HARN 
projection, the projection file was replaced with the standard FGDL projection file.

The data was originally in shapefile format and had the name 
RPC_Boundaries.shp. The shapefile was initially by county and was dissolved into 
10 Regional Planning Councils using the field RPC. 

The following QaQc tasks were performed:
-Added DESCIPT field based on RPC field
-Added FGDLAQDATE based on date the data was obtained from source
-Output was named rpcbnd_jan16
Process Date: 20160504

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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