Two weeks ago, USGS issued the official task order for the ARRA-funded
portion of the "Lidar for the Northeast" project, $1,410,550 total.
This is the actual contract with the vendor, PhotoScience, which locks
in the funding and collection details.  This week USGS will issue the
official task order for the rest of the project which includes another
3000 square miles, plus certain upgrades worth roughly $1.3M.  This will
cover 2,893 square miles of new lidar data for Maine, not including the
846 square miles collected in Androscoggin County last year by FEMA.
The footprint is available here:
http://mapserver.maine.gov/lidar/proposal_map_maine.pdf.
 
MEGIS has revamped and is providing for public consumption two basemap
web mapping services, one which provides a simple basemap WMS, and a
second which provides marine data.  Both will be available on the WMS
page this week.  Both are available for use right now with the following
URLs (reminder - these URLs will NOT take you to a website, they are for
web services which are consumed by GIS software).
 
Basemap:  
http://mapserver.maine.gov/wms/mapserv.exe?map=c:/wms/basemap.map&
 
Marine basemap: 
http://mapserver.maine.gov/wms/mapserv.exe?map=c:/wms/marine_basemap.map
&
 
MEGIS does host a basemap viewer which provides a web interface to use
the service.  Available at http://megis.maine.gov under 'maps'.
 
*****************
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

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