FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: PARCELS DISSOLVED BY DECADE OF ACTUAL YEAR BUILT - FLORIDA DOT DISTRICT 2 - 2017

Geodataset Name:       YB_DECADES_D2_2017
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         358736
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains parcels dissolved by the decade of the actual year built for each respective parcel polygon within the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 2. Actual Year Built for each parcel polygon represents the original year that the structure / building on the property was built. Effective Year Built represents the last date which the structure / building was updated / renovated, etc. This is an update to the FGDL YB_DECADES_D2_2015.shp data layer.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 FDOT District 2
PUBLICATION DATE: 20180119 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 20170926 End Date: 20171222 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: YB_DECADES_D2_2017.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
SHAPE.LEN
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
CNTYNAME
15 String
YB_DECADE
30 String
PAR_COUNT
8 Double
FIFTY_YEAR
8 Double
LAT_DD
8 Double
LONG_DD
8 Double
MGRS
20 String
GOOGLEMAP
100 String
ACRES
8 Double
DESCRIPT
100 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
8 Double
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters

Shape Feature geometry.

CNTYNAME The County Name.

YB_DECADE The range of the actual year builts by decades.

PAR_COUNT Number of individual parcels in dissolved polygon. Please Note: Some Multi-part Parcels have been split during the Single Part Dissolve process, for those polygons there will be only one record for the actual parcel count, which will result in a few of these features having a PARCOUNT = 0. One Example would be a Multi-part Parcel which contains two separate polygons split by a road, there is only one centroid created for the count field, so one of the halves will have a PARCOUNT = 1 while the other will have a PARCOUNT = 0. Since there isn't that many Multi-part parcels this should affect less than 3% of the records.

FIFTY_YEAR Identifies the collective age of structures relative to the fifty year milestone.
1 = Greater than 50 years

2 = Less than forty years

3 = Between 40 and 50 years

9 = Parcels with no values


LAT_DD Latitude in decimal degrees.

LONG_DD Longitude in decimal degrees.

MGRS Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) Coordinate of the Facility. The MGRS is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on the earth. The MGRS provides a means to represent any location on the surface of the Earth using an alphanumeric string. Hierarchical references are based on the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system. The MGRS is used for the entire earth. http://mgrs-data.org/

GOOGLEMAP Webpage hyperlink to location in Google Maps.

ACRES Number of Acres.

DESCRIPT Based on YB_DECADE.

FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL acquired the data from the source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters


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.
FDOT District 1

    SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
    * Major cities: Arcadia, Bartow, Bradenton, Fort Myers, Lakeland,
                    Naples, North Port, Sarasota, Sebring, and Venice.
    
    * Counties: Charlotte, Collier, De Soto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry,
                Highlands, Lee, Manatee, Okeechobee, Polk, and Sarasota.

FDOT District 2

    NORTHEAST FLORIDA
    * Major cities: Gainesville, Jacksonville, Lake City, Palatka, Perry,
                    Saint Augustine, and Starke.
    
    * Counties: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval,
                Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Nassau, Putnam,
                St. Johns, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union.

FDOT District 3

    NORTHWEST FLORIDA
    * Major cities: Apalachicola, Chipley, Crestview, Fort Walton Beach,
                    Marianna, Panama City, Pensacola, Quincy, and Tallahassee.
    
    * Counties: Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes,
                Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla,
                Walton, and Washington.

FDOT District 4

    SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
    * Major cities: Belle Glade, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce,
                    Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Stuart, Vero Beach, and West Palm Beach.
    
    * Counties: Broward, Indian River, Martin, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie.

FDOT District 5

    CENTRAL FLORIDA
    * Major cities: Daytona Beach, DeLand, Melbourne, Merritt Island, Ocala,
                    Orlando, and Titusville.
    
    * Counties: Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Seminole,
                Sumter, and Volusia.

FDOT District 6

    SOUTH FLORIDA
    * Major cities: Coral Gables, Hialeah, Key West, and Miami.
    
    * Counties: Miami-Dade and Monroe.

FDOT District 7

    WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA
    * Major cities: Brooksville, Clearwater, Dunedin, Largo, New Port Richey,
                    St. Petersburg, and Tampa.
    
    * Counties: Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas.

"The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS
systems for a variety of planning and analytical purposes."

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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DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
GeoPlan collected and used the available Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
District 2 2017 parcel tax data records gathered from the State
Department of Revenue (DOR) and County Property Appraisers
to create the shapefile.
[Original Statewide Parcel Layer: Florida_Parcels_2017_arcgis1041.gdb]

Process for dissolving parcel polygons based on decade of actual year built:

- For each county a new field representing Actual Year Built [AYRBLT] was 
  populated based on the attribute table information for the following fields; 
  ACTYRBLT and AYRB.
  - First [AYRBLT] was set equal to ACTYRBLT,
  - Next a selection set was created where [AYRBLT] = 0, 
    these selected features were set equal to AYRB.
  - Also checked for data in the Effective Year Built field where ACTYRBLT = 0.

- The [AYRBLT] field was then repopulated as ((Mid[AYRBLT], 1, 3) & "0")
  Ex. 1999 becomes 1990.

- The parcel polygon boundaries were then Dissolved 
  (as single part features) based on the Actual Year Built [AYRBLT] field.

- The Dissolved layers were then run through the Repair Geometry Command 3x.

- Next the Simplify Polygon GeoProcessing Function was used with 
  the Point Remove Algorithm to remove redundant points, such as 
  over-digitized vertices found throughout the layer, this function was 
  also used to compress the file size of the layer via a relatively low 
  degree of simplification.  Then during this simplification process a 
  tolerance equal to 1-meter was set in order to allow for a maximum 
  offset of 1m from the original source data.  Because the original file 
  size of the layer prohibited the use of the 'Resolve Errors' option, a 
  'No Check' option was used during the process; because of this 
  the algorithm may have introduced small topological errors to the 
  simplified results.  To correct for topological errors created 
  during this process the Repair Geometry Function was run three times.

- Next the Dissolved Layers were then run through the Integrated Command at 1m.

- The Dissolved layers were then run through the Repair Geometry Command 3x.

- A spatial Join was then run with the Dissolved Layers and they corresponding 
  Full County Parcel Label Points (which where dissolved on PARCELID) 
  in order to get Parcel Count for each dissolved feature.

- The shapefiles were then merged together based on the FDOT 
  District that each County fell in, creating seven district wide shapefiles.

- The [DECADE] field was then renamed [YB_DECADE].

- The final shapefile represents polygons of parcels which 
  structures/ buildings were originally built in the same decade.

- Several other fields were added to the attribute table:
   [DESCRIPT] - Based on [YB_DECADE]
   [FGDLAQDATE] - The date FGDL acquired the original data from the Source.
   As well as [CNTYNAME], [FIFTY_YEAR], [LAT_DD], [LONG_DD], [MGRS], [GOOGLEMAP], [ACRES], and [AUTOID].

Please Note: Tabular spatial information was derived from the feature's label point and not the feature's centroid.
Process Date: 20180518

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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