FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: FLORIDA BLACK BEAR NUISANCE REPORTS 1980 - 2018

Geodataset Name:       BEARNUISANCE_2018
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         58847
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This shapefile contains the locations of conflict calls from the public regarding human-black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) interactions in the state of Florida. This dataset includes only those reports that are associated with concurrent bear observations in the general vicinity of the caller. The data also were limited to those records obtained from the black bear database maintained by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and that were associated with a geographic coordinate. This is an update to the layer bearnuisance_2017.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20190307 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 19800101 End Date: 20181219 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: BEARNUISANCE_2018.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
REPORTDATE
25 String
REGION
15 String
COUNTY
15 String
LOCALE
105 String
CITY
30 String
INCIDENTID
15 String
BMU
15 String
ZIPCODE
10 String
CALLNATURE
35 String
TRACKNUM
30 String
LAST_EDITE
25 String
LAT_DD
8 Double
LONG_DD
8 Double
MGRS
15 String
GOOGLEMAP
50 String
DESCRIPT
105 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

REPORTDATE Date of call (mm/dd/yyyy)

REGION FWC region in which call was placed

COUNTY County in which call was placed

LOCALE Community/Subdivision in which call was placed

CITY City in which call was placed

INCIDENTID Incident record unique identification number

BMU FWC Bear Management Unit in which call was placed

ZIPCODE Zip code in which call was placed

CALLNATURE Nature of call

TRACKNUM Tracking numbers which refer to non-spatial bear database

LAST_EDITE Undefined by Source

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

GOOGLEMAP Webpage hyperlink to location in Google Maps

DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on CALLNATURE

FGDLAQDATE GeoPlan added field based on the date data was acquired from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


USER NOTES:
Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values.
Visually inspected for completeness to ensure all values fell within
specified ranges.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
Acknowledgement of the FWC-HSC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation 
Commission-Habitat and Species Conservation Division) 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.

These data are available for all people interested in the locations
of human-black bear interactions in the state of Florida.

Positions have been recorded with varying GPS units or from an
address location and converted to Latitude and Longitude; errors
vary depending upon precision and accuracy of differing GPS
units and of geocoding service.

Positions have been recorded with varying GPS units or from an 
address location and converted to Latitude and Longitude; errors 
vary depending upon precision and accuracy of differing GPS units 
and of geocoding service.

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.

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information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
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REFERENCES:


DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Receive spreadsheet from bear staff. Records from spreadsheet with
a lat/long were imported into GIS as an XY event and migrated into
a shapefile. Records from spreadsheet without a lat/long were geocoded
agaisnt the NAVTEQ 2013 address locator. Geocoded records with an
85% match or better were retained. In an event of a tie, the first
match was retained. The XY shapefile and resultant geocoding were
combined into one shapefile. The shapefile was QA/QC'd against county
boundaries, road networks, FWC regions and other bear action data
layers. Questionable records were returned to bear program staff for
verification, and were included if verified. Records in the spreadsheet
without dates or verified geographic coordinates were not included
in this dataset.
Process Date: 20170501

Staff records call locations in the WIMS database as street addresses or locations on map for each record, when available. WIMS automatically provides the geographic coordinates for the call locations, which were then exported into Microsoft Excel as a spreadsheet. Spreadsheet data were imported into ESRI ArcMap 10.3.1 as an XY event and converted into a point shapefile. Records from spreadsheet prior to 2016 without geographic coordinates were geocoded against the NAVTEQ 2013 address locator. Geocoded records with an 85% match or better were retained. In an event of a tie, the first match was retained. The shapefile was QA/QC'd against county boundaries layer in data library. Questionable records were individually examined and corrected as appropriate. Process Date: 20190101
The GeoPlan Center took the following steps during the QA/QC process: - Downloaded the datasets from FFWCC on 6/12/2019 using this link: http://geodata.myfwc.com/datasets/black-bear-related-calls-in-florida (original dataset was in shapefile format and in the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate system). - The dataset was projected into the FGDL Albers HPGN projection using the WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida transformation. - OBJECTID, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE fields were removed. - DESCRIPT field added based on the CALLNATURE field. Any records with no data in the CALLNATURE field had their DESCRIPT field calculated as 'NO DESCRIPT AVAILABLE'. - FGDLAQDATE field added based on the date the dataset was downloaded from the source. - The longest record for each field was found and field character lengths were shortened to appropriate shortest lengths possible. - Uppercased fields and appropriate records in the dataset. - Layer name changed from Black_Bear_Related_Calls_in_Florida.shp to bearnuisance_2018.shp Process Date: 20190618
Dataset copied. Process Date: 20190728
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:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
FFWCC-FWRI
620 S. Meridian St 5B6
Tallahassee, Florida
32399
850-488-0588

http://geodata.myfwc.com/datasets/black-bear-related-calls-in-florida GISRequests@MyFWC.com GIS Librarian

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