Geodataset Name:       BEARNUISANCE_2018
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         58847

DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  20190307
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            Begin Date: 19800101    End Date: 20181219
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: BEARNUISANCE_2018.DBF

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item	Item Description
OBJECTID	Internal feature number.
Shape	Feature geometry.
REPORTDATE	Date of call (mm/dd/yyyy)
REGION	FWC region in which call was placed
COUNTY	County in which call was placed
LOCALE	Community/Subdivision in which call was placed
CITY	City in which call was placed
INCIDENTID	Incident record unique identification number
BMU	FWC Bear Management Unit in which call was placed
ZIPCODE	Zip code in which call was placed
CALLNATURE	Nature of call
TRACKNUM	Tracking numbers which refer to non-spatial bear database
LAST_EDITE	Undefined by Source
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 CALLNATURE
FGDLAQDATE	GeoPlan added field based on the date data was acquired from source
AUTOID	Unique ID added by GeoPlan

USER NOTES:

Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values.

Visually inspected for completeness to ensure all values fell within specified ranges.

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

Acknowledgement of the FWC-HSC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Habitat and Species Conservation Division) as the data source would be appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of this data. Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such. This is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are not to be used for navigation.

These data are available for all people interested in the locations of human-black bear interactions in the state of Florida.

Positions have been recorded with varying GPS units or from an address location and converted to Latitude and Longitude; errors vary depending upon precision and accuracy of differing GPS units and of geocoding service.

Positions have been recorded with varying GPS units or from an address location and converted to Latitude and Longitude; errors vary depending upon precision and accuracy of differing GPS units and of geocoding service.

This data set is in the public domain, and the recipient may not assert any proprietary rights thereto nor represent it to anyone as other than a FWC-FWRI produced data set; it is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The user assumes all responsibility for the accuracy and suitability of this data set for a specific application. In no event will the staff of the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute be liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of or the inability to use this data set.

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REFERENCES: DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:

Receive spreadsheet from bear staff. Records from spreadsheet with a lat/long were imported into GIS as an XY event and migrated into a shapefile. Records from spreadsheet without a lat/long were geocoded agaisnt the NAVTEQ 2013 address locator. Geocoded records with an 85% match or better were retained. In an event of a tie, the first match was retained. The XY shapefile and resultant geocoding were combined into one shapefile. The shapefile was QA/QC'd against county boundaries, road networks, FWC regions and other bear action data layers. Questionable records were returned to bear program staff for verification, and were included if verified. Records in the spreadsheet without dates or verified geographic coordinates were not included in this dataset. Process Date: 20170501 Staff records call locations in the WIMS database as street addresses or locations on map for each record, when available. WIMS automatically provides the geographic coordinates for the call locations, which were then exported into Microsoft Excel as a spreadsheet. Spreadsheet data were imported into ESRI ArcMap 10.3.1 as an XY event and converted into a point shapefile. Records from spreadsheet prior to 2016 without geographic coordinates were geocoded against the NAVTEQ 2013 address locator. Geocoded records with an 85% match or better were retained. In an event of a tie, the first match was retained. The shapefile was QA/QC'd against county boundaries layer in data library. Questionable records were individually examined and corrected as appropriate. Process Date: 20190101 The GeoPlan Center took the following steps during the QA/QC process: - Downloaded the datasets from FFWCC on 6/12/2019 using this link: http://geodata.myfwc.com/datasets/black-bear-related-calls-in-florida (original dataset was in shapefile format and in the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate system). - The dataset was projected into the FGDL Albers HPGN projection using the WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida transformation. - OBJECTID, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE fields were removed. - DESCRIPT field added based on the CALLNATURE field. Any records with no data in the CALLNATURE field had their DESCRIPT field calculated as 'NO DESCRIPT AVAILABLE'. - FGDLAQDATE field added based on the date the dataset was downloaded from the source. - The longest record for each field was found and field character lengths were shortened to appropriate shortest lengths possible. - Uppercased fields and appropriate records in the dataset. - Layer name changed from Black_Bear_Related_Calls_in_Florida.shp to bearnuisance_2018.shp Process Date: 20190618 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:
         Phone:
        E-mail:

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
FFWCC-FWRI
620 S. Meridian St 5B6
Tallahassee, Florida
32399
850-488-0588


http://geodata.myfwc.com/datasets/black-bear-related-calls-in-florida
GISRequests@MyFWC.com
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