Metadata provides documentation of spatial data, describing content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of a data set. You can search our metadata to find geographic data that has been created by/for Palm Beach County. For example, if you search on the word "reef" you will find 2 GIS data sets that are related to reef; Artreef and Hardbottom. When you find the GIS data layer you are looking for you can download the ESRI shapefiles by clicking the Download link. Move your mouse over the Owner names for more information.