Geodataset Name:       USDIST
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    POLYGON

DATA SOURCE(S):                    Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Florida Legislature
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     N/A
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      20020401
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 STATE OF FLORIDA

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: USDIST.DBF

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item	Item Description
FID	Internal feature number.
Shape	Feature geometry.
DISTRICT	US Congressional Voting District identification number.
REPRESENTA	Name of Representative.
AREA	Area of district.
SQ__MILES	Square mileage of district.
ACRES	Acreage of district.
DESCRIPT	Based on 'DISTRICT'.
FGDLAQDATE	Date FGDL aquired data from source.

USER NOTES:

In the 2002 Legislative Session, the Florida Legislature drew new district lines for Florida House, Florida Senate and Congressional seats. In the orginal shapefiles depicting these features, a vast amount of statistical information was included. The purpose of this information was "to provide additional information about the adopted plans, the comma separated files generated by the FREDS 2000 software that detail aggregated district statistics and district by county statistics have been included with these other data sets." GeoPlan has excluded this statistical data from the actual shapefile, but has included a supplemental table containing the data. This table, named 'hdist_table.dbf' can be utilized by relating the shapfile attribute table with the supplemental table using the common field of 'DISTRICT'. Futhermore, the defintions for the supplemental fields can be viewed in the .pdf document 'hdist_table_definitons.pdf' that is included with the data. The definitions in the pdf were extracted from the FREDS 2000 Help document, downloaded online from: <http://edr.state.fl.us/redistricting/freds/freds.htm> Also, please note that the attribute names in the supplemental table 'hdist_table.dbf' are prefaced with a "Z", and the attributes listed in the pdf document 'hdist_table_definitons.pdf' are not prefaced with a "Z".

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REFERENCES:

Office of Economic and Demographic Research http://edr.state.fl.us/redistricting/districts.htm

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:

GeoPlan downloaded this data from the Office of Economic and Demographic Research online at: <http://edr.state.fl.us/redistricting/districts.htm> During the QAQC process, GeoPlan: -Reprojected to the FGDL Albers HPGN map projection. -Added 'DESCRIPT' field based on 'DISTRICT'. -Added field 'FGDLAQDATE'. -Excluded and exported 'FREDS 2000' statistical information into supplemental table (SEE USER NOTES). Process Date: 20051102

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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Address:


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Office of Economic and Demographic Research (Florida Legislature)
EDR
111 W. Madison St.
Tallahassee, FL
32399-1400
(850) 487-0400


http://edr.state.fl.us/redistricting/districts.htm

Name:                   FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY
Abbr. Name:             FGDL
Address:                Florida Geographic Data Library
                        431 Architecture Building
                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
Web site:               http://www.fgdl.org

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