FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: DRAFT Proposed Choctawhatchee Beach Mouse Critical Habitat

Geodataset Name:       PROP_CHBM_CRIT_HAB
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    LINE
Feature Count:         123
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Geographic Information System (GIS) File for the Designation of Critical Habitat for the Choctawhatchee beach mouse. Due to their current, unofficial, draft nature, these GIS files and their associated coordinates are not the definitive source for determining the critical habitat boundaries for Choctawhatchee beach mouse
DATA SOURCE(S):                    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     12000
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      Draft - Not for publication
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: PROP_CHBM_CRIT_HAB.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE N. DECIMAL DEGREES
FGDLAQDATE
8 Date ---
OBJECTID
4 OID ---
PERIMETER
19 Number 11
NAME
16 String ---
ACRES
19 Number 11
HECTARES
19 Number 11
HABITAT
3 String ---
UNITOWNHAB
50 String ---
COUNTY
6 String ---
OWNERSHIP
2 String ---
UNIT_NO
2 Number ---
UNIT_NAME
40 String ---
STATE
2 String ---
UNIT_LABEL
7 String ---
DESCRIPT
40 String ---
ETAT.PROP_CHBM_CRIT_HAB.AREA
8 Double ---
SHAPE
4 Geometry ---
AUTOID
4 Integer ---
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double ---
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double ---

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
FGDLAQDATE Date FGDL acquired data.

OBJECTID Internal feature number.

PERIMETER Feature perimeter in meters

NAME Name of the property feature resides
Deer Lake SP = Deer Lake State Park

Grayton Beach SP = Grayton Beach State Park

Henderson SP = Henderson Beach State Park

Private = Private Landowner

Shell Island = Shell Island

St. Andrew SP = St. Andrew State Park

Topsail Hill SP = Topsail Hill State Park

Tyndall AFB = Tyndall Air Force Base

Walton Co = Walton County


ACRES Number of Acres

HECTARES Number of Hectares

HABITAT Beach mouse critical habitat or not?
Yes = Polygon is critical habitat

No = Polygon is not critical habitat


UNITOWNHAB Concatenation of Unit, Ownership, and Habitat

COUNTY County in which the critical habitat unit resides

OWNERSHIP Ownership of the land in which the feature resides
S = State

L = Local

P = Private

F = Federal


UNIT_NO Number of the critical habitat unit

UNIT_NAME Name of the critical habitat unit

STATE State in which the unit resides

UNIT_LABEL Label given to the units

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on UNIT_NAME

ETAT.PROP_CHBM_CRIT_HAB.AREA No description

SHAPE Feature geometry.

AUTOID No description

SHAPE.AREA No description

SHAPE.LEN No description


USER NOTES:
These data appear to be logically consistent.  No feature errors were identified

The data represents sites with known use by one of the three species of beach 
mice mapped.  Mapped sites were identified based on knowledge of biologists.  
Ommissions may be possible due to the extnent of coverage and difficulty of 
surveying all coastal dune areas

GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.



Horizontal accuracy was not tested; however, data was created by digiziting on 
screen using 1 meter, digital orthophoto quater quads at a view scale of 1:1500 or
larger.



Not Applicable



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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.

1:250000 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 analyses. Every 
effort has been made to supply the user with data 
documentation. For additional information, see the 
References sectionand the Data Source Contact section of 
this documentation. For more information regarding scale 
and accuracy, see our web pages at:

http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:


DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Source data were overlayed on 2004 true color digital orthophotos at a view scale
of 1:1500 or larger.  The source data (Available Habitat for Choctawhatchee 
Beach Mouse) was edited to remove identifiable buildings and roads.  Vertices of 
existing linework (Topsail Hill Unit, Grayton Beach Unit, Deer Lake Unit, and Shell
Island/West Crooked Island Unit) were manipulated whenever possible to remove
non-constituent elements listed above.

The shapefile was converted to an Arc/Info coverage and then ran 
REGIONPOLY to establish topology.  The coverage was coverted back to a 
shapefile.

Henderson Beach Unit (did not exist in source data) polygon was created by 
onscreen digitzing based on 2004 DOQQ at 1:1500 or larger view scale.
Process Date: 2005

- Added a DESCRIPT field to attribute table based on UNIT_NAME - Added a FGDLAQDATE based on date downloaded from source - Upcased all fields - Changed name to prop_chbm_crit_hab Process Date: 20060209
Metadata imported. Process Date:
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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2004doqq
1601 Balboa Ave
Panama City, FL
32405
850/769-0552 x230

paul_lang@fws.gov

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