FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: 114TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES IN FLORIDA - 2016

Geodataset Name:       USDIST_2016
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         27
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset represents U.S. Congressional district boundaries for the state of Florida, as ordered by the Florida Supreme Court December 2, 2015. Between 2012 and 2015, the enacted Congressional and Senate maps were repeatedly challenged in the courts. In December of 2015, the Supreme Court of Florida and the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County ordered new congressional and state senate plans, respectively. The current U.S. Congressional District representatives have been added to the attribute table; these representatives are the winners of the November 2014 election. These representatives will be updated after the November 8 2016 election. For Florida congressional districts prior to December 2015 see FGDL layer USDIST_2014 or prior.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    FLSENATE.GOV
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 201608 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 201512 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: USDIST_2016.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
DISTRICT
2 String
NAME
100 String
PARTY
19 String
STATE
2 String
SESSION_
3 String
STFIPS
2 String
DESCRIPT
25 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.

DISTRICT U.S. Congressional District number.

NAME Name of elected representative.

PARTY Representative party affiliation.

STATE State.

SESSION_ No description

STFIPS State FIPS number.

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on DISTRICT field.

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date downloaded 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.

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS systems 
for a variety of planning and analytical 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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REFERENCES:
Find your US Congress Representative:
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

List of US Congress Representatives:
http://www.house.gov/representatives/

Redistricting Info:
https://www.flsenate.gov/session/redistricting

Redistricting related data downloads:
http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Redistricting/Plan/SC14-1905

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
In August 2016 GeoPlan downloaded the data from the Florida Senate website at:
http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Redistricting/Plan/SC14-1905 
The data was in the following geographical coordinate 
system: GCS_North_American_1983.  During the QA/QC process GeoPlan 
performed the following tasks.


-Projected the data to Albers Conical Equal Area [Florida Geographic Data  Library]
-Added district representatives and party affiliation for the current session of the 114
 Congress. These will be updated after the upcoming election.
-Removed fields with population data.
-Uppercased all fields.
-Added DESCRIPT field based on the concatenation of "US DISTRICT" &  attribute DISTRICT.
-Added FGDLAQDATE field based on the date GeoPlan received the data from  the source.
-Renamed the dataset from SC14-1905_SHP to usdist_2016
Process Date: 20160809

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:
FLSENATE.GOV
USCB
404 S. Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL
32399
(850) 487-5855

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Redistricting/Plan/SC14-1905 www.floridaredistricting.org

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Name:                   FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY
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                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
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