Hi Kelly and all,

Other GeoLibrary Board members, please chime in-

The GeoLibrary Board is nearing completion of the implementation of a data portal.  This will be a one-stop access point for GIS data in Maine.  The portal will be open to data contributions from the state, local gov't, natural resource groups, private industry, educational institutions, and any other groups that wish to contribute data.  The submission would require metadata that would be approved before the data are actually published on the portal.  We hope that this will help to alleviate data-finding headaches.  If a direct download isn't available, the portal would provide an external link or contact information for where one can find the needed information if it's been submitted to the portal as being available somewhere.

The GeoLibrary is also working on an Integrated Land Records project that would help to link deed information to digital parcel files.

For more information on these projects, please visit the GeoLibrary's website at http://www.maine.gov/geolib/

Thanks,
~G

Kelly Bellis wrote:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">Presently - or at least as far as I can find - there isn't any place to download tax maps - in any format - for unorganized territories (see here for what's available). And tax maps for municipalities are slowly becoming available from towns and other municipalities - generally in pdf, while other towns may not even have a website.

I'd love to see available from the Geo-Library, tax maps - in any format - along with a database of land owner information; e.g., Book and page deed references, Map and lot references and owners' contact information for all towns and unorganized territories - or at least those towns willing to participate in making such information available.

If nothing else, could we please get a page/ downloadable file on the website listing links to towns that presently have such information already available?

What steps are needed to implement these suggestions?

Kind regards,

Kelly

V. Kelly Bellis, PLS 2099
Horizon Surveying Company, Inc.
17 Union Street
Ellsworth, ME 04605
207.667.6912


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Gretchen Heldmann
GIS/IT Specialist
Town of Hampden
106 Western Avenue
Hampden, ME 04444
Phone: (207)862.4500 x142
http://www.hampdenmaine.com/