FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: 2011 FLORIDA COUNTY BOUNDARIES WITH DETAILED SHORELINE - JULY 2011

Geodataset Name:       COUNTYSHORE_AREAS_JUL11
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         68
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset represents Florida's County Boundaries with a detailed shoreline. This layer was created using the 2011 TIGER/Line Files from the US Census Bureau and FMRI's detailed shoreline polygon. The Census boundaries for counties and equivalent entities are as of January 1, 2010, primarily as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 2012 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 2011 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: COUNTYSHORE_AREAS_JUL11
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
STATEFP
2 String
COUNTYFP
3 String
COUNTYNS
8 String
GEOID
5 String
NAME
100 String
NAMELSAD
100 String
LSAD
2 String
CLASSFP
2 String
MTFCC
5 String
CSAFP
3 String
CBSAFP
5 String
METDIVFP
5 String
FUNCSTAT
1 String
ALAND
8 Double
AWATER
8 Double
INTPTLAT
11 String
INTPTLON
12 String
DESCRIPT
12 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.

STATEFP Current state Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code

COUNTYFP Current county Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code

COUNTYNS Current county ANSI code

GEOID County identifier; a concatenation of Current state FIPS code and county FIPS code

NAME Current county name

NAMELSAD Current name and the translated legal/statistical area description for county

LSAD Current legal/statistical area description code for county
00 = Blank

03 = City and Borough

04 = Borough

05 = Census Area

06 = County

07 = District

10 = Island

12 = Municipality

13 = Municipio

15 = Parish

25 = city


CLASSFP Current Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) class code
C7 = An incorporated place that is independent of any county

H1 = An active county or equivalent feature

H4 = An inactive county or equivalent feature

H5 = A statistical county equivalent feature

H6 = A county that is coextensive with an incorporated place, part of an incorporated place, or a consolidated city and the governmental functions of the county are part of the municipal government


MTFCC MAF/TIGER feature class code
G4020 = County or Equivalent Feature


CSAFP Current combined statistical area code

CBSAFP Current metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code

METDIVFP Current metropolitan division code

FUNCSTAT Current functional status
A = Active government providing primary general-purpose functions

B = Active government that is partially consolidated with another government but with separate officials providing primary general-purpose functions

C = Active government consolidated with another government with a single set of officials

F = Fictitious Entity created to fill the Census Bureau geographic hierarchy

G = Active government that is subordinate to another unit of government

N = Nonfunctioning legal entity

S = Statistical Entity


ALAND Current land area
0 to 9,999,999,999,999 = Blank


AWATER Current water area
0 to 9,999,999,999,999 = Blank


INTPTLAT Current latitude of the internal point
00 = Blank


INTPTLON Current longitude of the internal point
00 = Blank


DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on NAME

FGDLAQDATE Data GeoPlan acquired data from source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters


USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology
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.

This data is intended for a variety of planning purposes.

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
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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. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:


DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
GeoPlan downloaded this data from two sources:

1) downloaded latest TIGER county boundary
-ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2011/COUNTY/
-projected from Decimal Degrees NAD83 to Albers HPGN
-scale unknown

2) downloaded shoreline data from FMRI
-http://ocean.floridamarine.org/TRGIS/Description_Layers_Terrestrial.htm#shorelines
-projected from Albers NAD83 to Albers HPGN
-scale 1:40,000

-clip FMRI shoreline with TIGER county boundary 
-erase FMRI shoreline with TIGER county boundary and dissolve output
-merge clip output and erase output and name COUNTYSHORE_AREAS_JUL11
-run repair geometry
-calculate NAME and NAMELSAD to "WATER"
-Upcased all fields
-add DESCRIPT based on NAME
-add FGDLAQDATE
Process Date: 20120420

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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