FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: AMTRAK STATIONS IN FLORIDA - 2015

Geodataset Name:       AMTRAK_2015
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         31
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Updated database of the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Amtrak Station database. This database is the Florida subset of the larger geographic data set containing Amtrak intercity railroad passenger terminals in the United States and Canada. Attribute data include services and passenger amenities provided at the station.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Federal Railroad Administration
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20150727 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 2015 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: AMTRAK_2015.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
STNCODE
5 String
STNNAME
50 String
ADDRESS1
30 String
ADDRESS2
45 String
CITY
15 String
STATE
2 String
ZIP
10 String
STNTYPE
5 String
STFIPS
2 String
DESCRIPT
15 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

STNCODE Unique Station Code.

STNNAME City and State of the station.

ADDRESS1 Street address of the station.

ADDRESS2 Street address of the station, if applicable.

CITY Name of the city the station is located in.

STATE State abbreviation which follows the postal abbreviation.

ZIP Postal ZIP code for location of station.

STNTYPE Type of station.
BUS = Station is a thruway bus stop

RAIL = Station is a rail station

OTHER = Station serves other modes


STFIPS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State Code.

DESCRIPT Based on CITY.

FGDLAQDATE The date GeoPlan acquired the data from the source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


USER NOTES:
All points records are represented by a single coordinate pair and 
a unique feature identifier; the Amtrak Station Code (stored in the 
STNCODE field). Attribute data can be matched to specific point 
records using this identifier.
The database contains all the Amtrak thruway bus and rail stations 
from the Amtrak website and Timetables in the US and Canada as 
of 2015. As new stations are formed or if they move, this 
database should be updated accordingly.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

The data set provides an updated version of the location and 
attribute information for all Amtrak stations in the United States 
and Canada. This data is used for national and network analysis 
applications.

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. Acknowledgment of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) should 
be cited in products derived from these data.

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
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about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check
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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.

REFERENCES:
Federal Railroad Administration:
http://www.fra.dot.gov/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
FRA's Amtrak Database was copied and the attributes for each station was 
compared with the Amtrak website. If there were any dissimilarities, the 
attribute table was changed. If an address of a station changed, the location 
of the station was observed to determine if the point had to be moved. If a 
station location had to be moved, it was done manually. Newly added stations 
were first but into a separate shapefile (a shapefile for each geographic region) 
and were added manually by cross-referencing their location with road atlases. 
Then the shapefiles were added to the database.
Process Date: 2015

In July 2015 GeoPlan obtained the data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in CDROM format. During the QA/QC process, GeoPlan performed the following tasks. -Extracted features where "STATEFIPS" = '12' to select features in Florida -Reprojected Florida selection set from GCS_WGS_1984 to Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library) using this transformation: WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida -Added DESCRIPT field based on CITY -Added FGDLAQDATE field based on the date GeoPlan received the data -Uppercased all fields -Renamed the dataset from amtrk_sta to amtrak_2015 Process Date: 20150909
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:
Federal Railroad Administration
FRA
1200 New Jersey Avenue S.E.
Washington, DC
20590


http://www.bts.gov/programs/geographic_information_services/

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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