Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Facilities

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Publication_Date: 200909

Title: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Facilities

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Online_Linkage: <http://research.myfwc.com/>

Description:

Abstract:

This GIS layer consists of points representing facilities of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, including the Main Headquarters, Regional Offices, Division of Wildlife, Freshwater Fisheries, and Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

Purpose:

This data set provides a visual representation of FWC office locations as of March 2009.

Supplemental_Information:

Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information. Addresses obtained from <http://floridamarine.org> and <http://www.floridaconservation.org>

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 200909

Time_of_Day: unknown

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.354727

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.927953

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.883191

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.672193

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRI Theme

Theme_Keyword: cities

Theme_Keyword: GIS

Theme_Keyword: state wildlife parks

Theme_Keyword: managed areas

Theme_Keyword: marine mammals

Theme_Keyword: place names

Theme_Keyword: wildlife management area

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: location

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Operational Tiers

Theme_Keyword: Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Theme_Keyword: Information Science and Management

Theme_Keyword: Center for Spatial Analysis

Theme_Keyword: Habitat Mapping

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRI Place

Place_Keyword: Florida

Place_Keyword: statewide

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWC Region

Place_Keyword: FWC Region-North Central

Place_Keyword: FWC Region-Northeast

Place_Keyword: FWC Region-Northwest

Place_Keyword: FWC Region-South

Place_Keyword: FWC Region-Southwest

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Water Management Districts

Place_Keyword: Northwest Florida Water Management District

Place_Keyword: South Florida Water Management District

Place_Keyword: Southwest Florida Water Management District

Place_Keyword: St. Johns River Water Management District

Place_Keyword: Suwannee River Water Management District

Access_Constraints:

Available without restriction. All data must be verified by Principal Investigator or Group Database Analyst prior to release. It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from FWC and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. FWC makes no claims as to the data's suitability for other purposes.

Use_Constraints:

Acknowledgement of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) as the data source would be appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of this data. Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such. This is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are not to be used for navigation.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701-5095

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-823-0166

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: FWRI-DC

Security_Classification: Available without restriction.

Security_Handling_Description: Available without restriction.

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

All entities and attributes have been identified and documented.

Logical_Consistency_Report: Data are logically consistent.

Completeness_Report: Some newer offices may not be included.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The road data layers are accurate to approximately 1:100,000 scale. The geocoding output parameters included a side offset of 0 and an end offset of 3 percent. Some offices were relocated based on 1999 and 2004 aerial photography.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

United States Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division, Data User Services Division, Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER) staff

Publication_Date: 2000

Publication_Time: Unknown

Title: ISM_CSA_roads_tiger_100k_2000

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000

Type_of_Source_Media: TIGER\line files

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2000

Time_of_Day: unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: TIGER

Source_Contribution: Facility addresses were geocoded to the road data layer.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Facility addresses were received as a spreadsheet from FWC Office of Finance and Budget. These locations were geocoded to the road data layer.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: TIGER

Process_Date: 200507

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

FWC facilities map made with given spreadsheet. Matched the facilities names with the correct location and made a map in ARCMAP.

Process_Date: 200509

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

New office location for Charlotte Harbor field lab and new zip code for Northeast Regional Office. Field lab location geocoded to TeleAtlas data.

Process_Date: 20070711

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Position: GIS Data Librarian

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-893-1679

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Facilities attributes and positions were updated to match the 'offical' FWC portal data where positions are reported by staff at the office locations. Updates based on FWC portal data will occur quarterly.

Process_Date: 20090309

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 115

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Map_Projection:

Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area

Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:

Standard_Parallel: 24.000000

Standard_Parallel: 31.500000

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -84.000000

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 24.000000

False_Easting: 400000.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000128

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000128

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Altitude_System_Definition:

Altitude_Resolution: 1.000000

Altitude_Encoding_Method:

Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: GIS.FWC.FWC_facilities_fl_point

Entity_Type_Definition:

Points representing headquarters, offices, and laboratories of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; attributes include contact and FWC category information.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ZIPCODE

Attribute_Definition: Zip code of the FWC facility

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Zip code of the FWC facility

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FWCOFF_NAM

Attribute_Definition: Name given to FWC facility

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Name given to FWC facility

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: PHONE

Attribute_Definition: Telephone number

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field for entering telephone number.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: REGION

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ADDRESS

Attribute_Definition: Street address

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field for facility address.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CONTACT

Attribute_Definition: FWC facility contact

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: FWC facility contact

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CITY

Attribute_Definition: City location of facility

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Facilities city location

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COUNTY

Attribute_Definition: Facility county location

Attribute_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Facility county location

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ZIPCODE4DI

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: EMAIL

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FACILITYTE

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LATITUDE

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LONGITUDE

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FAX

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FACTYPE

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701-5095

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-823-0166

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

Distribution_Liability:

This data set is in the public domain, and the recipient may not assert any proprietary rights thereto nor represent it to anyone as other than a FWC-FWRI produced data set; it is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The user assumes all responsibility for the accuracy and suitability of this data set for a specific application. In no event will the staff of the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute be liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of or the inability to use this data set.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: SHP

Transfer_Size: 0.022

Fees:

None. However, persons or organizations requesting information must provide transfer media if FTP is not available and must pay express shipping costs if express shipping is required.

Ordering_Instructions:

Contact GIS Librarian by e-mail, telephone, or letter explaining which products are needed and providing a brief description of how the products will be used. Also, provide name and address of the person or organization requesting the products.

Turnaround:

Usually within 10 business days, although, complex requests may take longer

Custom_Order_Process: Contact GIS Librarian

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20100921

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GISLibrarian

Contact_Organization:

FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Address: 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701-5095

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-823-0166

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Access_Constraints: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.

Metadata_Use_Constraints: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.

Metadata_Security_Information:

Metadata_Security_Classification_System: FWRI-MC

Metadata_Security_Classification: Available

Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.

Metadata_Extensions:

Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>

Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile