FSA_Counties_dd17 Geospatial Dataset (Sustainable FSA Archive)

Re-release of 2026.07.29 to correct the archive metadata. The data are byte-identical to 2026.07.29 — the geodatabase, TopoJSON, and Parquet are unchanged, and the S3 mirror already serves these outputs. The 2026.07.29 Zenodo record was minted as software under the MIT license, because Zenodo's GitHub integration defaults releases to upload_type=software and does not honor the type: dataset field in CITATION.cff. A .zenodo.json now sets the record type to dataset and the license to CC0, matching the archive's actual licensing: the USDA source data are public domain (17 USC § 105) and the derivative TopoJSON is released under CC0. CITATION.cff date-released was also stale and is now current. Dataset changes (carried over from 2026.07.29) Corrects county geometries that were dropped or merged by the processing pipeline. County identity is now FSA_STCOU + FIPS_C. The pipeline previously dissolved on FSA_STCOU alone, collapsing counties that share an FSA county code but represent distinct FIPS counties. The full-resolution archive carries 3,247 county features, against 3,113 distinct FSA_STCOU values. Curved geometry is linearized with GDAL. 71 source features are stored as MULTISURFACE in the geodatabase; these are converted with vectortranslate -nlt CONVERT_TO_LINEAR -nlt MULTIPOLYGON rather than a GeoJSON round-trip. Small counties survive simplification. ms_simplify(keep_shapes = TRUE) restores Falls Church (51610) and Manassas Park (51685) to the simplified TopoJSON, now 3,104 counties (was 3,102). Sliver gaps and holes removed via mapshaper -clean gap-fill-area=500. Finer TopoJSON precision: quantization raised from 1e5 to 1e6. The full-resolution fsa-counties-dd17.parquet is committed to git alongside the S3 mirror. Verification The automated pipeline completed successfully on 42748d1, and the published artifacts were compared against the locally generated outputs: the TopoJSON county and state ID sets match exactly (3,104 / 52), and the Parquet carries 3,247 features, all valid MULTIPOLYGON. Access the documentation: https://sustainable-fsa.com/fsa-counties-dd17/