FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: U.S. ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS PORTS IN FLORIDA - 2019 

Geodataset Name:       ACPORT_2019
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         1181
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) port locations within the state of Florida. The data consists of location description, street address, city, county name, congressional district FIPS code, type of construction, cargo-handling equipment, water depth alongside the facility, facility type ( dock, fleeting area, lock and/or dam) berthing space, latitude, longitude, current operators and owner's information, list of commodities handled at facility, road/railway connections, equipment available at facility, storage facilities, cranes, transit sheds, grain elevators, marine repair plants, fleeting areas, and docking, and facility start/stop date.. Collection of data is performed on a rotational basis to ensure on-site accuracy at each facility. This dataset is an update to the acport_2015 layer. 
DATA SOURCE(S):                    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  20190626
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            20190626
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES: 

Datafile Name: ACPORT_2019.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
ID
8 Double
NAV_UNIT_I
10 String
UNLOCODE
5 String
NAV_UNIT_N
95 String
LOCATION_D
190 String
FACILITY_T
20 String
STREET_ADD
35 String
CITY_OR_TO
20 String
STATE_POST
5 String
ZIPCODE
10 String
COUNTY_NAM
15 String
COUNTY_FIP
8 Double
CONGRESS
8 Double
CONGRESS_F
8 Double
WTWY_NAME
105 String
PORT_NAME
45 String
MILE
8 Double
BANK
80 String
LATITUDE1
8 Double
LONGITUDE1
8 Double
OPERATORS
254 String
OWNERS
120 String
PURPOSE
254 String
HIGHWAY_NO
185 String
RAILWAY_NO
240 String
LOCATION
8 Double
DOCK
8 Double
COMMODITIE
254 String
CONSTRUCTI
254 String
MECHANICAL
254 String
REMARKS
254 String
VERTICAL_D
20 String
DEPTH_MIN
8 Double
DEPTH_MAX
8 Double
BERTHING_L
8 Double
BERTHING_T
8 Double
DECK_HEIGH
8 Double
DECK_HEIG1
8 Double
SERVICE_IN
15 String
SERVICE_TE
15 String
LAT_DD
8 Double
LONG_DD
8 Double
MGRS
15 String
GOOGLEMAP
55 String
DESCRIPT
100 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item

Item Description





OBJECTID

Internal feature number.
















Shape

Feature geometry.
















ID

Unique Identifier
















NAV_UNIT_I

Alphanumeric unique identifier for a facility
















UNLOCODE

United Nations Location Code
















NAV_UNIT_N

Name of facility
















LOCATION_D

Textual description of the location of the facility
















FACILITY_T

Facility type i.e. ('Dock', 'Fleeting Area', 'Lock and/or Dam', 'Milepoint', etc.)
















STREET_ADD

Address of facility
















CITY_OR_TO

City or town where facility is located
















STATE_POST

State where facility is located
















ZIPCODE

Postal zip code
















COUNTY_NAM

County name
















COUNTY_FIP

The 3-character FIPS code of the County or County equivalent
















CONGRESS

Congress number (i.e. 108, 109, etc.)
















CONGRESS_F

Congressional District FIPS code
















WTWY_NAME

Name of waterway where facility is located
















PORT_NAME

Port in which the wharf is located
















MILE

Waterway mile of wharf location above or below a datum point
















BANK

Bank of river for wharf location (Left or Right)
















LATITUDE1

Latitude
















LONGITUDE1

Longitude
















OPERATORS

Current operators of the facility with phone and fax numbers
















OWNERS

Current owner or owner/operators of the facility with phone and fax numbers
















PURPOSE

Purpose for which wharf is used, including commodities handled and/or services performed
















HIGHWAY_NO

Surface road connections
















RAILWAY_NO

Railway connections
















LOCATION

Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center's five digit location code
















DOCK

Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center's three digit dock code
















COMMODITIE

List of commodities handled at the facility at the two digit Lock Performance Monitoring System level
















CONSTRUCTI

Description of type of construction
















MECHANICAL

Description of equipment available at the facility
















REMARKS

Remarks, including description of wharf - related storage facilities and their operators
















VERTICAL_D

Depth/Height Datum used
















DEPTH_MIN

Minimum depth alongside facility
















DEPTH_MAX

Maximum depth alongside facility
















BERTHING_L

Largest single berthing space in feet
















BERTHING_T

Total berthing space in feet
















DECK_HEIGH

Minimum deck height
















DECK_HEIG1

Maximum deck height
















SERVICE_IN

Date facility started service
















SERVICE_TE

Date facility stopped service
















LAT_DD

Latitude in decimal degrees.
















LONG_DD

Longitude in decimal degrees.
















MGRS

Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) Coordinate of the Facility. The MGRS is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on the earth. The MGRS provides a means to represent any location on the surface of the Earth using an alphanumeric string. Hierarchical references are based on the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system. The MGRS is used for the entire earth
















GOOGLEMAP

Webpage hyperlink to location in Google Maps
















DESCRIPT

GeoPlan added field based on NAV_UNIT_N
















FGDLAQDATE

The date GeoPlan acquired the data from the source.
















AUTOID

Unique ID added by GeoPlan




























USER NOTES:








RITA/BTS quality checks were to cross reference the place dataset 
with the state dataset, to determine that the spatial data and attribute 
data were accurate













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.













A description of the physical and Intermodal (infrastructure) 
characteristics of the ports in Florida.















The Navigation Data Center had several objectives in developing the 
U.S. Waterway Data. These objectives support the concept of a 
National Spatial Data Provide public access to national waterway data. 
Foster interagency and intra-agency cooperation through data sharing. 
Provide a mechanism to integrate waterway data (U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers Port/Facility and U.S. Coast Guard Accident Data, for 
example) Provide a basis for intermodal analysis. Assist standardization 
of waterway entity definitions (Ports/Facilities, Locks, etc.). Provide 
public access to the National Waterway Network, which can be used 
as a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other 
spatial data (waterway and modal network/facility databases, for 
example). Provide reliable data to support future waterway and 
intermodal applications.















The accuracy of each point element is correlated to the data source 
used to derive that element.  For example, links and nodes derived 
from 1:100,000 scale Digital Line Graphs are more accurate than links 
and nodes derived from 1:500,000 scale NOAA Navigational Charts.  
Elements with an "M" in the source field (indicating an unknown or 
missing source) are the least accurate.















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















None.  Acknowledgment of the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics National 
Transportation Atlas Database 2014 would be appreciated in products 
derived from these data.














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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: 






Navigation Data Center:
http://www.navigationdatacenter.us









DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: 








Extraction of the USACE identified port nodes from the National Waterway 
Network file.
Process Date: 2006


GeoPlan obtained the data from the Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics in shapefile format from the BTS data website:
https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ports
During the QA/QC
process, GeoPlan performed the following tasks.
- Extracted features where "STATE_POST" = 'FL' to select features 
  in Florida.
- Selected points in Florida, which removed 12 points that fell outside 
  the extent of Florida
  - Original ports.shp projection was GCS_WGS_1984.  Reprojected the 
  shapefile to Albers Conical Equal Area (fgdl_square) using the 
  WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida 
  transformation. 
- Added DESCRIPT field and populated it based on 
  NAV_UNIT_N
- Added FGDLAQDATE field and populated it based on the date 
  GeoPlan received the data
- Restructured table by reducing field lengths to better suit data.
- Uppercased all records in the table
- Renamed the dataset from ports.shp to acport_2019
Process Date: 20190702


Dataset copied.
Process Date: 20190728









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:
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        E-mail:




Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
BTS/RITA/USACE
1200 New Jersey Ave. S.E.
Washington, D.C.
20590
(202) 366-3282


https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/
answers@bts.gov
Office of Geospatial Information Systems









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