Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 20190307 vector digital data Tallahassee, FL Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute State of Florida http://geodata.myfwc.com/datasets/black-bear-related-calls-in-florida 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. These data are available for all people interested in the locations of human-black bear interactions in the state of Florida. 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. 19800101 20181219 publication date Complete As needed -87.552128 -79.939419 31.027123 25.368838 None GIS biology census mapping None uplands None bear wildlife nuisance None society biota ISO 19115 Topic Category biota FWC Place Florida statewide 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. 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. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GIS Librarian GIS Data Librarian mailing

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Tallahassee Florida 32399 850-488-0588 850-410-5269 GISRequests@MyFWC.com Sarah Barrett, FWC FWRI-DC Available without restriction Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values. Visually inspected for completeness to ensure all values fell within specified ranges. 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. 0 onLine 19800101 20181219 ground condition FFWCC-FWRI Spatial and Attribute Information 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. 20170501 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GIS Librarian GIS Data Librarian mailing

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Tallahassee Florida 32399 850-488-0588 850-410-5269 GISRequests@MyFWC.com 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. 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 GeoPlan 20190618 Vector Entity point 58847 NAD 1983 HARN Florida GDL Albers 24.0 31.5 -84.0 24.0 400000.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 HARN GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 BEARNUISANCE_2018 BEARNUISANCE_2018.DBF FFWCC-FWRI OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. REPORTDATE Date of call (mm/dd/yyyy) FWC Date field REGION FWC region in which call was placed FWC Free text COUNTY County in which call was placed FWC Free text LOCALE Community/Subdivision in which call was placed FWC Free text CITY City in which call was placed FWC Text field INCIDENTID Incident record unique identification number FWC Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. BMU FWC Bear Management Unit in which call was placed FWC Free text ZIPCODE Zip code in which call was placed FWC Text field CALLNATURE Nature of call FWC Free text TRACKNUM Tracking numbers which refer to non-spatial bear database FWC Free text LAST_EDITE Undefined by Source GeoPlan LAT_DD Latitude in decimal degrees. GeoPlan LONG_DD Longitude in decimal degrees. GeoPlan 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 GeoPlan GOOGLEMAP Webpage hyperlink to location in Google Maps GeoPlan DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on CALLNATURE GeoPlan FGDLAQDATE GeoPlan added field based on the date data was acquired from source GeoPlan AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan GeoPlan Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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