FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: FLORIDA COUNTY BOUNDARIES WITH DETAILED SHORELINE - SEPTEMBER 2015 

Geodataset Name:       COUNTYSHORE_AREAS_SEP15
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 2015 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, 2014, primarily as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). GeoPlan maintains 3 county boundary layers: COUNTYSHORE_AREAS, CNTBND, and COUNTY. These 3 layers will all have the same interior boundaries and different coastal boundaries. The interior boundaries come from the MAF/TIGER Database that is updated yearly by the US Census Bureau. The coastal boundaries differ in the following way: 1) COUNTYSHORE_AREAS - FWRI's detailed shoreline layer (updated periodically) 2) CNTBND - moderately generalized shoreline designed for Efficient Transportation Decision Making (ETDM) display, sourced from historic US Census Bureau data 3) COUNTY - highly generalized shoreline designed for ETDM display, sourced from historic US Census Bureau data 
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  201509
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            2015
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES: 

Datafile Name: COUNTYSHORE_AREAS_SEP15
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
STATEFP
2 String
COUNTYFP
3 String
COUNTYNS
8 String
GEOID
5 String
NAME
15 String
NAMELSAD
20 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
15 String
INTPTLON
15 String
DESCRIPT
15 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
















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




G4020 = County or Equivalent Feature













CBSAFP

Current metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code
















METDIVFP

Current metropolitan division code
















FUNCSTAT

Current functional status
















ALAND

Current land area
















AWATER

Current water area




0 to 9,999,999,999,999 = Blank













INTPTLAT

Current latitude of the internal point
















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














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
collected from various state, federal, and other agencies (data sources)
who are data stewards, producers, or publishers. The data available in
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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. 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 shoreline data from FMRI (scale 1:40,000)
- http://ocean.floridamarine.org/TRGIS/Description_Layers_Terrestrial.htm#shorelines
- Originally projected in PCS Albers with a Datum of 
GCS_North_American_1983.  Reprojected into Albers Conical Equal
Area with a datum of GCS_North_American_1983_Harn using
NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida as the transformation.  Saved the shapefile
As Shoreline_proj.shp

2. downloaded latest TIGER county boundary
- ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/COUNTY/
-Extracted features where "STATEFP" = '12' to select features
 in Florida and saved as county_bound.shp
-Originally projected in NAD 1983.  Reprojected into Albers Conical
Equal Area with a datum of NAD_1983_HARN using
NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida as the transformation.  Saved the shapefile
As County_bound_proj.shp

The following procedures were performed on the data:

-Clip FMRI shoreline with TIGER county boundary.  Saved as 
shore_county.shp
-Erase FMRI shoreline with TIGER county boundary and save
As county_shore_erase.shp
-Dissolve county_shore_erase.shp into county_shore_dissolve.shp
-Merge county_shore_dissolve.shp with shore_county.shp. Save
As countyshore_areas.shp
-Merging both data sets leaves one empty attribute (the area surrounding
The state).  Populate the fields NAME and NAMELSAD for that attribute
With "WATER"
-Add DESCRIPT field based on NAME
-Add FGDLAQDATE field and populated it based on the date 
GeoPlan received the data 
-Restructured the table and saved it as countyshore_areas_sep15
-Uppercased all fields
Process Date: 20150924


Errant water polygons along the Florida/Georgia border were removed.
Process Date: 20161118









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):








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University of Florida GeoPlan Center
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http://www.fgdl.org/
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