FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: NORTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT LAND USE AND COVER 1995 - DISTRICT WIDE - RESIDENTIAL LANDS

Geodataset Name:       LU_NW_RESIDENT_95
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         13157
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This data set contains Residential lands based on a selection from Northwest Florida Water Management District (NWFWMD) Land use - Land Cover. The following selection was performed: "FLUCCS < 1400"
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Department of Environmental Protection
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     24,000
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 Northwest Florida Water Management District
PUBLICATION DATE: 19970414 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 19970414 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: LU_NW_RESIDENT_95.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
FLUCCS
4 Integer
OTHER
6 String
ATTRIBUTE
50 String
SOURCE
6 String
SOURCE2
13 String
FLUCCS_L1
4 Integer
LEVEL1
50 String
FLUCCS_L2
4 Integer
LEVEL2
75 String
FLUCCS_L3
4 Integer
LEVEL3
100 String
FLUCCSCOMP
4 Integer
ACRES
8 Double
DESCRIPT
125 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
8 Double
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

FLUCCS The land use and land cover classification code as defined in the Florida DOT's FLUCCS classification system. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District layer. NWFWMD = FLUCCS1 - The Land Use/Land Cover classification code as defined in the Florida Department of Transportations (DOT) Florida Land Use and Land Cover Classification System (FLUCCS). This is also considered Level 4. NWFWMD uses an adopted classification scheme, for more information on the adopted classification scheme please the Attribute Overview Description Section. Please Note: FLUCCS code number 6900 (Wetland Scrub Shrub) is being cross-walked as FDOT classification code 6310 (Wetland Shrub). The 6900 value has been moved to the OTHER field and the FLUCCSCOMP field, while the FLUCCS value of 6900 has been replaced with 6310. Please see the GeoPlan Center process steps section for more information.

OTHER The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. NWFWMD = FLUCCS2 - The Land Use/Land Cover classification code as defined in the Florida Department of Transportations (DOT) Florida Land Use and Land Cover Classification System (FLUCCS). This is also considered Level 4. NWFWMD uses an adopted classification scheme, for more information on the adopted classification scheme please the Attribute Overview Description Section. Please Note: FLUCCS code number 6900 (Wetland Scrub Shrub) is being cross-walked as FDOT classification code 6310 (Wetland Shrub). The 6900 value has been moved to the OTHER field and the FLUCCSCOMP field, while the FLUCCS value of 6900 has been replaced with 6310. Please see the GeoPlan Center process steps section for more information.

ATTRIBUTE Northwest Florida Water Management District FLUCCS Code Land Use Descriptions.

SOURCE Water Management District of Coverage/Origin.

SOURCE2 Other contributing source; G.&O'Mara,Inc = Greenhorne & O'Mara Inc.

FLUCCS_L1 The highest level (level 1) designation in a hierarchical coding scheme containing 4 levels. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. NWFWMD = LEVEL1.

LEVEL1 Level 1 land use description, based on the FDOT classification schema.

FLUCCS_L2 The second highest level (level 2) designation in a hierarchical coding scheme containing 4 levels. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. NWFWMD = LEVEL2.

LEVEL2 Level 2 land use description, based on the FDOT classification schema.

FLUCCS_L3 The third highest level (level 3) designation in a hierarchical coding scheme containing 4 levels. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District Layer. NWFWMD = LEVEL3.

LEVEL3 Level 3 land use description, based on the FDOT classification schema. There is a possibility that the FDOT Level 3 description does not match that of the Water Management District, for those occurrences this discrepancy has been identified in the FLUCCSCOMP field.

FLUCCSCOMP This field represents a comparison between the dataset's FLUCCS code description and the FDOT FLUCCS code description. Where these two descriptions differed a number one was inserted. Please Note: FLUCCS code number 6900 (Wetland Scrub Shrub) is being cross-walked as FDOT classification code 6310 (Wetland Shrub). The 6900 value has been moved to the OTHER field and the FLUCCSCOMP field, while the FLUCCS value of 6900 has been replaced with 6310. Please see the GeoPlan Center process steps section for more information.

ACRES Number of Acres.

DESCRIPT Based on field ATTRIBUTE.

FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.

AUTOID GeoPlan Center feature identification number.

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters

Northwest Florida Water Management District FLUCCS Codes and Land Use Descriptions

LEVEL1  1000     URBAN AND BUILT-UP
        2000     AGRICULTURE
        3000     RANGELAND
        4000     UPLAND FORESTS
        5000     WATER
        6000     WETLANDS
        7000     BARREN LAND
        8000     TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND UTILITIES
        9000     SPECIAL CLASSIFICATIONS

FLUCCS CODES
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
1000	Urban and Built-up
	1100	Residential, low density
	     1120     	Mobile home units, low
			density
	1200	Residential, medium density
	     1220	Mobile home units, medium
			density
	1300	Residential, high density
	     1320	Mobile home units, high
			density
	1400	Commercial and services
	     1420	Junk Yards
	     1440	Cultural and entertainment
	     1460	Tourist services
	     1480	Cemeteries
	1500	Industrial
	     1560	Other Heavy Industrial
	1600  	Extractive
	     1610	Strip Mines
	     1620	Sand and gravel pits
	     1630	Rock quarries
	     1640	Oil and gas fields
	     1660	Holding ponds
	1700	Institutional
	     1710	Educational facilities
	     1720	Religious
	     1730	Military
	     1740	Medical and Health care
	     1750	Governmental
	     1760	Correctional
	     1790	Institutional under 
			construction
	1800	Recreational
	     1810	Swimming beach
	     1820	Golf Courses
	     1830	Race Tracks
	     1840	marinas and fish camps
	     1850	Parks and zoos
	     1860	Community recreational
			facilities
	     1870	Stadiums
	     1880	Historic sites
	     1890	Other recreational
	1900 	Open land (Urban)

2000	Agriculture
	2100	Cropland and pastureland
	2200	Tree crops
	2300	Feeding operations
	2400	Nurseries and vineyards
	2500	Specialty farms
	     2540	Aquaculture
	2600	Other open land (Rural)

3000	Rangeland
	3200	Shrub and brushland
	     3220	Coastal scrub
	3300	Mixed rangeland

4000	Upland Forests
	4100	Upland coniferous forests
	     4130	Sand pines
	4200	Upland hardwood forests
	     4340	Mixed coniferous/hardwood
	     4350	Dead trees
	4400	Tree plantations
	     4410	Coniferous plantations
	     4430	Forest regeneration areas

5000	Water
	5100	Streams and waterways
	5200	Lakes
	5300	Reservoirs
	5400	Bays and estuaries
	     5410	Embayments opening directly
			into the Gulf
	     5420	Embayments not opening
			directly into the Gulf
	5600	Slough waters
	5700	Oceans, Seas, and Gulf's

6000	Wetlands
	6100	Wetland hardwood forests
	     6110	Bay swamps
	     6120	Mangrove swamps
	     6130	Gum swamps
	     6150	Stream and lake swamps
	     6160	Inland ponds and sloughs
	6200	Wetland coniferous forests
	     6210	Cypress
	     6230	Atlantic cedar
	6300	Wetland forested mixed
	6400	Vegetated non-forested
		wetlands
	     6410	Freshwater marshes
	     6420	Saltwater marshes
	     6440	Emergent aquatic vegetation
	6500	Non-vegetated
	     6510	Tidal flats
	     6530	Intermittent ponds
	6900	Wetland shrub

7000	Barren land
	7100	Beaches
	7200	Sand other than beaches
	7300	Exposed rocks
	7400	Disturbed land
	     7420	Borrow areas
	     7450	Burned areas
	7500	Riverine sandbars

8000	Transportation, communications, and utilities
	8100	Transportation
	     8110	Airports
	     8120	Railroads
	     8140	Roads and highways
	     8150	Port facilities
	     8160	Canals and docks
	     8170	Oil, water, or gas 
			transmission lines
	     8180	Auto parking facilities
	8200	Communications
	     8210	Transmissions towers
	     8220	Communication facilities
	8300	Utilities
	     8310	Electrical power facilities
	     8320	Electrical power transmission
			lines
	     8330	Water supply plants
	     8340	Sewage treatment
	     8350	Solid waste disposal
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 layer was created to illustrate the different land uses in the Northwest 
Florida Water Management District as seen in 1995.  This may be useful for future 
management applications regarding land use change detection.

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

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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:
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/gis/data/

The Northwest Florida Water Management District (NWFWMD)
http://www.nwfwmd.state.fl.us/

Greenhorne & O'Mara Inc.
http://www.g-and-o.com/main.asp

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
The preparation of the 1994/1995 land use/cover maps was accomplished with 
  seven major tasks.
   1.  The interpretation of 1994 and 1995 National Aerial Photography
       Program (NAPP) color-infrared (CIR) aerial photography.
   2.  Quality assurance/quality control of the photointerpreted data.
   3.  Field checking and accuracy assessments of selected data points.
   4.  Cartographic quality control of the compilation onto stable-base 
       USGS 7.5 minute quadrangles.
   5.  ARC/INFO database creation and polygon attribution.
   6.  Quality assurance/quality control of the digital files.
   7.  Delivery to DEP of the digital geographic database.

  For specifics on these tasks, please contact Paul Talbot, Greenhorne &
  O'Mara, Inc., at 813/576-0402.
Process Date: 19970414

Column was added to the land use datasets which allows users to easily classify the data according to FLUCCS Level 1. The column LEVEL1 was added in SDE and populated with the following code using SQL . . . alter table xxwmd_landuse_19nn add (level1 number(4)); update xxwmd_landuse_19nn set level1 = ((substr(lu_code,1,1))*1000); Process Date: 19991108
Numeric codes were synthesized for improving thematic classification at all levels. All 1:24k land use layers now have at least four standard fields in common: LEVEL1, LEVEL2, LEVEL3, and ATTRIBUTE. LU_CODE was replaced by LEVEL3 and codes for the other levels were extracted. For this SDE layer, the empty field SYMBOL was dropped. Process Date: 20000201
The GeoPlan Center downloaded the original Northwest Florida Water Management District dataset (see below) from the following website on May 27th, 2008. ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/gis/data/ File: nwfwmd_landuse_1995.zip NWFWMD_LANDUSE_1995.shp The district-wide dataset was originally in the following projection; FDEP Albers - GCS_North_American_1983_HARN The district-wide layer was redefined to the FGDL Albers projection. Next the records in the attribute table were UPPERCASED. Next 4 records were deleted from the dataset. These records contained information which only told the user that the polygon was outside the study area. Below is the original NWFWMD file structure: ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE AREA 8 Double PERIMETER 8 Double FLUCCS1 2 SmallInteger FLUCCS2 2 SmallInteger LEVEL1 2 SmallInteger LEVEL2 2 SmallInteger LEVEL3 2 SmallInteger ATTRIBUTE 50 String SHAPE 4 Geometry OBJECTID 4 OID SHAPE.AREA 0 Double SHAPE.LEN 0 Double Below is the crosswalk table between the original file structure and the new file structure: ORIGINAL NAME NEW NAME AREA Deleted PERIMETER Deleted FLUCCS1 FLUCCS FLUCCS2 OTHER LEVEL1 FLUCCS_L1 LEVEL2 FLUCCS_L2 LEVEL3 FLUCCS_L3 ATTRIBUTE Same SHAPE Deleted OBJECTID Deleted SHAPE.AREA Deleted SHAPE.LEN Deleted Additionally GeoPlan added and populated the following fields: SOURCE SOURCE2 LEVEL1 LEVEL2 LEVEL3 FLUCCSCOMP ACRES DESCRIPT FGDLAQDATE AUTOID Please Note: FLUCCS code number 6900 (Wetland Scrub Shrub) is being cross-walked as FDOT classification code 6310 (Wetland Shrub). The land use codes and descriptions for this layer are cross-walked by the FDOT land use classification schema (see attribute fields: FLUCCS_L1, LEVEL1, FLUCCS_L2, LEVEL2, FLUCCS_L3, LEVEL3). In some cases, original FLUCCS codes provided by the data originator are not exact matches with the FDOT land use classification schema. One example in this dataset includes FLUCCS code 6900 (Wetland Scrub Shrub),which is used by NWFWMD. The FDOT classification schema does not include 6900, but it does include 6310 (Wetland Shrub). Hence, for records with FLUCCS = 6900, the corresponding FDOT classification fields (FLUCCS_L1, LEVEL1, FLUCCS_L2, LEVEL2, FLUCCS_L3, LEVEL3), will contain the information for FDOT's 6310 classification code. Process Date: 20080527
The GeoPlan Center updated the LU_NWFWMD_1995 data layer on August 16th, 2011. During this update process GeoPlan performed the following steps: Currently the FLUCCS code number 6900 (Wetland Scrub Shrub) was being cross-walked as FDOT classification code 6310 (Wetland Shrub). So GeoPlan updated the 6900 classification by moving the 6900 value to the OTHER field and the FLUCCSCOMP field, at the same time GeoPlan replaced the FLUCCS value of 6900 with 6310. GeoPlan also removed/replaced any Carrot Symbols < or > with their proper English translation of greater than or less than, additionally where Carrot Symbols were being used as brackets actual brackets were inserted such as ( and ) to allow proper XML function within the ETDM system. In the DESCRIPT field the features that contained EMBAYMENTS < GULF were also updated. They were changed to: EMBAYMENTS NOT OPENING DIRECTLY INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO Additionally the DESCRIPT of MIXED CONIFEROUS/HARDWOOD was updated to MIXED CONIFEROUS AND HARDWOOD Process Date: 20110816
Dataset copied. Process Date: 20110817
The following SDE spatial view command was run: sdetable -o create_view -T LU_NW_RESIDENT_95 -t "LU_NWFWMD_1995" -c "*" -w "FLUCCS < 1400" Process Date: 20111005
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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