FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE PERMIT PROJECT ACTIVITY AREAS - OCTOBER 2011

Geodataset Name:       SW_ERP_OCT11
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         60407
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Environmental Resource Permit Project Activity Areas (PAA) and Total Land Areas (TLA) when PAA is not available. The PAA boundary is created by the District Reviewer staff to aid in locating the general vicinity of the project area. The TLA boundary is create by REG GIS staff using proof of legal control documents to aid in identifying permit associations. The areas of project activity and total land represented in this Geographic Information System are drawn for the sole use of the Southwest Florida Water Management District ("District"). These drawings and the data they contain are not legal documents, do not comprise the legal definition of the "project area" as referenced in 40D-4.021, F.A.C., and are not intended to represent or be used as such. To view the legal project area as submitted by the applicant or permittee, and as approved by the District, please contact the District office to which the project area information was submitted.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Southwest Florida Water Management District, Mapping and GIS Section
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 Southwest Florida Water Management District
PUBLICATION DATE: 20111014 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 20100307 End Date: 20111014 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: SW_ERP_OCT11.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
ERP_APPLIC
8 Double
ERP_PERMIT
8 Double
ERP_REVISI
8 Double
PERMITTEE_
100 String
PROJECT_NA
100 String
PERMIT_DEP
100 String
ERP_PERM_1
100 String
LETTER_MOD
1 String
ERP_STATUS
100 String
ERP_ACTIVI
100 String
PROJECT_AC
8 Double
OWNED_ACRE
8 Double
APPLICATIO
36 Date
PERMIT_ISS
36 Date
EXPIRATION
36 Date
ERP_DELETE
100 String
ERP_ENG_AD
25 String
ERP_ES_AD_
25 String
INSP_ENG_A
25 String
INSP_ES_AD
25 String
CONSTRUCTI
36 Date
STATEMENT_
36 Date
INSPECTION
36 Date
OPERATION_
36 Date
LAST_UPDAT
36 Date
GIS_UPDATE
36 Date
ERP_LABEL_
15 String
REPRESENTS
25 String
ERP_EXT_UR
197 String
DESCRIPT
80 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.

ERP_APPLIC Primary key from ERP_APPLICATION table to identify applications/permits

ERP_PERMIT Environmental Resource Permit base number

ERP_REVISI Environmental Resource Permit revision number

PERMITTEE_ Name of the permittee

PROJECT_NA Name of the project site

PERMIT_DEP District department service office that is handling the permit

ERP_PERM_1 Description for the type of permit

LETTER_MOD Flag indicating if this is a letter modification to another permit
Y = This is a letter modification to another ERP

N = This is not a letter modification to another ERP


ERP_STATUS Application permit status description

ERP_ACTIVI Proposed activity

PROJECT_AC The total acres of the project as recorded in WMIS

OWNED_ACRE Total acreage of the land controlled by the applicant, as recorded in WMIS

APPLICATIO The date the application was received by the District

PERMIT_ISS The date the permit was issued by the District

EXPIRATION The date the permit expires

ERP_DELETE The reason the permit has been given a delete status

ERP_ENG_AD Undefined by source

ERP_ES_AD_ Undefined by source

INSP_ENG_A Undefined by source

INSP_ES_AD Undefined by source

CONSTRUCTI Construction Notice Date

STATEMENT_ Date the Statement of Completion was received

INSPECTION Date of inspection

OPERATION_ The date the District certified that the project was built according to the permitted plans

LAST_UPDAT The date the attributes were last updated

GIS_UPDATE The date a GIS analyst updated the geometry or attributes.

ERP_LABEL_ Created to show the basenumber.revision combination, if avialable. If not available, the application id is displayed

REPRESENTS What the record represents. Either project activity area or total land area.

ERP_EXT_UR The url to the external web application for the particular permit

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on PROJECT_NA

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date downloaded from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Length in meters


USER NOTES:
The final product was checked against the source material.  The Mapping 
and GIS section of the Southwest Florida Water Management District corrected 
any errors found.
There are no significant omissions.  Some historical permits are not currently 
mapped, but will be captured in the future during cleanup efforts.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

To aid in locating the best geometry available for an Environmental Resource Permit.

Visual inspection of the linework over the DOQQs, at a scale of 1:8,000, is 
used to verify the positional placement of the linework.  Data is estimated to 
be compliant with the National Map Accuracy Standards for 1:12,000, 
estimated +/- 33.3 feet.

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

These data were not collected under the supervision of a licensed Professional 
Surveyor and Mapper. Use of these data requires a general understanding of GIS.

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
FGDL may not be the most current version of the data offered by the
data source. University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no guarantees
about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check
with the data source to see if more recent versions of the data exist.

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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:
Southwest Florida Water Management District:
http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/

Environmental resource permits:
http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/permits/erp/

SWFWMD History:
http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/about/history/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
The initial version of the ERP_PROJECT_AREA_EDIT feature class was 
created from the legacy ERP polygons March 7, 2010.  The attributes in 
the ERP_PROJECT_AREA_EDIT feature class were then populated (most 
did not exist in ERP).  It is important to note that there were few formal 
business rules associated with the ERP layer.  Permit boundaries could 
reflect actual ownership, area where construction was going to be performed, 
a project area, or some combination of the above.
Process Date: 20100307

After the initial feature class was created data cleanup was initiated to adjust all polygons so that they are defined in accordance with ERP_PROJECT_AREA procedures. This essentially means that polygon boundaries must follow rules established by the ERP Project Boundary Setting Team, that were approved by the Managers in February 2010. A reference document can be found depicting these rules by contacting the Performance Management Office ERP Project Manager. Typically, the boundary will roughly follow the limits of construction. As permits come in for modifications or renewal the boundaries are corrected. Where possible, adjacent permit boundaries area also corrected. The bottom line is that new, modified or renewed permits will be mapped properly. Cleanup of historical permits will take multiple years and is subject to approval of funding each fiscal year. Process Date: Daily
The process for editing/creating new Project Activity Areas is as follows: 1) The permittee provides their best estimate of the boundary using the WMIS online permit application tools. This results in either a parcel boundary from the property appraiser's data, the existing permit boundary, a sketch made using the WMIS sketch tool, or a site plan that the reviewer can reference. 2) The District review staff check the information provided by the applicant, then send a sketch to REG GIS depicting the actual Project Activity Area using a customized tool in ArcMap (ERP Editing Tool). 3) The REG GIS editors review the data submitted by the reviewers and adjust it as necessary to obtain the best possible boundary. In doing so the editor consults parcel data, legal descriptions, aerial imagery, and other available sources. The editor updates attributes as required. Process Date: Daily
A PYTHON script determines the total land area records that are not found in the project activity area layer. It then adds all the records found in the ERP_PROJECT_AREA_EDIT and those found in the ERP_TOTAL_LAND_AREA_EDIT to a ERP_COMBINED layer. This is done on a daily basis. Process Date: Not complete
A third party software application, joins a view of attributes, ERP_V, with the ERP_COMBINED feature class and creates a new feature class in the District's GIS enterprise database. This is done on a daily basis. Process Date: Not complete
The PYTHON script calculates the attribute, ERP_LABEL_TXT. This attribute is calculated with the <ERP_PERMIT_NBR>.<ERP_REVISION_NBR> for those permits in approved or delete status. The attribute is calculated with APP_ID <ERP_APPLICATION_ID> for those permits in incomplete or denied status. This is done on a daily basis. Process Date: Not complete
This dataset was received by the GeoPlan Center via ftp on 10/14/2011. The data was originally in shapefile format. When received the data set was in the following projection: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet. The data was projected to Albers NAD 83 HARN. This data is updated daily by the Southwest Florida Water Management District. Please see their data downloads page for the most up-to-date data. - Added the field DESCRIPT based on PROJECTNA. - Added the field FGDLAQDATE based on date downloaded from source. - Upcased all text in the attribute table. - Data set was renamed sw_erp_oct11 from ERP_PA_PLUS_EXT - Deleted OBJECTID field Process Date: 20111014
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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Southwest Florida Water Management District
SWFWMD
2379 Broad Street (U.S. 41 South)
Brooksville, FL
34604-6899
(352) 796-7211

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