Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission 20110101 vector digital data St. Petersburg, FL Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission State of Florida http://geodata.myfwc.com/ This is a polygon GIS data set representing FWCs five regional districts. Region boundaries extend out to the Submerged Lands Act (SLA) based state waters line. Region divisions are based on 1:24,000 scale county boundaries. This is an update to FWCREG_2003. Use region boundaries for graphical purposes as well as some analyses. Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information. There is a problem with the county line between Manatee and Hillsborough. Linework in the water is arbitrary and may not reflect actual submerged boundaries. 19970801 20110101 publication date Complete As needed -87.639376 -79.813567 31.042638 24.353583 None bounds mapping counties GIS None Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Information Science and Management Center for Spatial Analysis GIS Data Management and Technical Services None boundaries ISO 19115 Topic Categories boundaries FWRI Place northeast Florida east coast of Florida south Florida north Florida Florida Panhandle northwest Florida west coast of Florida Florida Keys Florida southeast Florida Florida Peninsula southwest Florida statewide FWC Region FWC Region-North Central FWC Region-Northeast FWC Region-South FWC Region-Southwest FWC Region-Northwest Water Management Districts Northwest Florida Water Management District Southwest Florida Water Management District St. Johns River Water Management District Suwannee River Water Management District South Florida Water Management District All data must be verified by Principal Investigator or Group Database Analyst prior to release. It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from FWC and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. FWC makes no claims as to the data’s suitability for other purposes. Acknowledgement of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) 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. FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg FL 33701-5095 US 727-896-8626 727-823-0166 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com FWRI-DC Available with caution Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 FFWCC Regions: http://myfwc.com/contact/fwc-staff/regional-offices/ GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. Data are topologically and logically consistent. unknown 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 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), Center for Spatial Analysis unknown vector digital data DATA SOURCE SCALE: 24,000 Florida 1:24000 county boundaries 24000 None FFWCC Spatial and Attribute Information FWRI merged the source layers to create single counties layer with shoreline. This counties layer was then given a REGION attribute representing the FWC district boundary. FWRI Dissolved the layer based on this attribute. FFWCC 20030801 FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 US 727-896-8626 727-893-1679 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time Regions are created based on County Boundaries extending out to state waters. FFWCC 20110101 FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 US 727-896-8626 727-893-1679 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time The dataset was downloaded from the FFWCC website http://geodata.myfwc.com/ in September 2016. When downloaded the data was in shapefile format and the coordinate system was GCS_WGS_1984. The data was projected to GCS_North_American_1983_HARN using the WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida transformation. -Added DESCRIPT field, populated it based on FWC_REGION -Added FGDLAQDATE and populated it based on the date GeoPlan received the data -Deleted ObjectID field -Restructured table -Uppercased all fields -Renamed data from FWC_regions to fwcreg_2011 GeoPlan 20161024 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 5 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 FWCREG_2011 FWCREG_2011.DBF FFWCC OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. FWC_REGION Code by region FFWCC DESCRIPT Based on FWC_REGION GeoPlan FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date acquired from source GeoPlan AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan GeoPlan SHAPE.AREA Area in meters GeoPlan SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters GeoPlan Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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St. Petersburg FL 33701-5095 US 727-896-8626 727-823-0166 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time No restrictions on metadata Metadata must be distributed with the data set. FWRI-MC Metadata must be distributed with the data set.