MEGIS is pleased to announce that its new website is officially "live"
and available at http://www.maine.gov/megis.
 
The 'old' website will continue to run at http://megis.maine.gov for one
week, but as of March 21 it will go away and any requests to 
http://megis.maine.gov will be redirected to the new site.  We will be
retiring the 'old' website on March 21.
 
The new website combines the web mapping services into the data catalog,
and includes metadata stored in the GeoLibrary GeoPortal.  Some changes
you may notice:
 
Where did the tables go?  Standalone tables are now bundled in with the
data layers they relate to (so TINGIS is bundled into the public
drinking wells, geocodes is the town boundaries, etc.).
 
What happened to some federally-supplied data?  Certain data layers that
the federal government supplies are no longer offered through our data
catalog as that is a redundant function.  Instead we provide links to
the federal sites where the data can be obtained.  This is true for
things like NWI, SSURGO soils, and NAIP imagery.
 
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Michael Smith
State GIS Manager, Maine Office of GIS, Maine OIT
Board Member, Maine GeoLibrary
Board Member, Maine GIS Users Group
State Rep, National States Geographic Information Council

  <http://megis.maine.gov/>   <http://www.maine.gov/geolib>  
<http://www.megug.org/>   <http://www.nsgic.org/> 

State House Station 174
264 Civic Center Drive
Augusta, ME 04333-0174
(207) 215-5530

69o 47' 49.5"W   44o 20' 54.5"N


 

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