Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County/Utilities ArcGIS geodatabase design/Data dictionary

This Geodatabase Dictionary was commissioned by the Solid Waste Authority (SWA) of Palm Beach County to act as a guide for the collection, verification, and maintenance of utilities as part of the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County Utility GIS initiative.

Data Inputs
In the event that the correct information cannot be obtained for a field, the user may substitute a value that indicates that the affected field was intentionally not populated. The value to use for each field type is as follows:


 * Character – “NP”
 * Numeric - -9999
 * Date - 9/9/9999
 * True or False - -9999

Every reasonable effort should be made to fully populate all the geodatabase information. In the event that information is not obtained for a field, the value to use for all field types is Null or the field may remain empty. Since portions of this guidance may not have been in place at the time of field data collections, SWA is aware that certain data may not have been captured. In some cases, data may be back populated on the condition that it agrees with all final modeling and results.