FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2004
TITLE: UNITED STATES COAST GUARD AIDS TO NAVIGATION
Geodataset Name: NAVAID Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: POINT
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains points for United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation.
DATA SOURCE(S): National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Coastal Services
Center (CSC)
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS: N/A
DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: 09/30/98
GEODATASET EXTENT: State of Florida
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:
Datafile Name: NAVAID.DBF ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE PRECISION SHAPE 6 SHAPEPOINT - AIDNO 7 DECIMAL - NAME 21 CHARACTER - LATITUDE 11 DECIMAL 8 LONGITUDE 12 DECIMAL 8 CHART1 8 CHARACTER - CHART2 8 CHARACTER - CHART3 8 CHARACTER - CHART4 8 CHARACTER - CHART5 8 CHARACTER - CHART6 8 CHARACTER - CHART7 8 CHARACTER - ADD_DATE 10 CHARACTER - SOURCE 9 CHARACTER - DOCUMENT 11 CHARACTER - DOC_DATE 10 CHARACTER - NM_ID 6 CHARACTER - NM_NUM 9 CHARACTER - NM_DATE 10 CHARACTER - CHAR_LABEL 48 CHARACTER - CARTOCODE 12 CHARACTER - COMPILER 10 CHARACTER - REVIEWER 11 CHARACTER - ACC 5 CHARACTER - ACTION 7 CHARACTER - REMARK 32 CHARACTER -
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:
Item Item description
SHAPE Data attribute inherent to the ESRI shapefile format,
which defines the data as a point, polyline, or polygon.
AIDNO USCG Aids to Navigation number
NAME Feature Name
LATITUDE Latitude
LONGITUDE Longitude
CHART1 Chart Field
CHART2 Chart Field
CHART3 Chart Field
CHART4 Chart Field
CHART5 Chart Field
CHART6 Chart Field
CHART7 Chart Field
ADD_DATE Date aid activated
SOURCE Coast Guard District number
DOCUMENT Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners
DOC_DATE Date of Local Notice to Mariners
NM_ID NOS/LNM tie in fields
NM_NUM NOS/LNM tie in fields
NM_DATE NOS/LNM tie in fields
CHAR_LABEL Charting Characteristics
CARTOCODE NOS Symbol Code
COMPILER Accountability Initials
REVIEWER Accountability Initials
ACC Not Used
ACTION ADD, DELETE, REVISE, RELOCATE, AND REVISE AND RELOCATE
REMARK Remarks
USER NOTES:
The original coverage contained data for the SE United States region and was clipped to those areas in and around Florida to conform to FGDL standards.
FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:
-Reprojection into FGDL format -Tolerance set to FGDL standards -Renamed coverage from NAVAIDS to NAVAID
REFERENCES:
The USCG Nautical Charting Division contributed the Dbase files in map form.
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 SOURCES CONTACT(S):
Name: National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
Coastal Services Center
Abbr.name: NOAA (CSC)
Address: 2234 South Hobson Ave.
Charelston, SC. 29405
Phone: (800)789-2234
Fax: (843)740-1224
Web site: www3.csc.noaa.gov
Hours of Service: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm, Eastern Standard Time
Email: metadata@csc.noaa.gov
Contact Person: Clearinghouse Manager
Phone: (800)789-2234
Email: clearinghouse@csc.noaa.gov
FGDL CONTACT:
Name: Florida Geographic Data Library
Abbr. Name: FGDL
Address: Florida Geographic Data Library
431 Architecture
PO Box 115706
Gainesville, FL 32611-5706
Web site: http://www.fgdl.org
Contact FGDL:
Technical Support: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.html
FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html
FGDL Mailing Lists: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html
FGDL Software: http://www.fgdl.org/software.html