Greetings, As many of you konw, the Maine Office of GIS and the Maine GeoLibrary Board are partners in a joint venture to provide orthoimagery web mapping services (WMS) based on open standards. We are happy to announce three new services, all of which can be accessed at http://www.maine.gov/geolib/wms.htm. Metadata, KML, and LYR files are available at that site. NAIP 2009 - this is brand-new state-wide 1-meter color orthoimagery collected between June 17 and September 17 of 2009, courtesy of USDA. Horizontal accuracy is within 6m of true location. SPOT 5m 2004 - statewide 5-meter black-and-white orthoimagery collected by the SPOT-5 satellite mostly in summer 2004 (Bristol area in January 2005). These are the data which the MELCD 2004 is based on. While we can provide these data as a WMS, the original data are licensed and available only to licensed entities - federal organizations working on projects with the State, State government, Regional/county/local governments or COGs, K-12 schools, state colleges and universities in Maine. SPOT 10m 1998 - statewide 10-meter black-and-white orthoimagery collected by the SPOT satellite between 1998 and 2001. These data, though older and coarser than SPOT-5, are much better tone-balanced and contrast-enhanced. Like SPOT-5 these are also licensed, with the same conditions as outlined above. Still to come in WMS: Recent low-tide imagery from DMR 30-mile national border buffer imagery Debsconeags Baxter SP Additionally, we have developed date index files for most of our WMS. These are shapefiles that will allow you to precisely identify what date a particular image was captured. The WMS web site already has the dates for single-date collections (all collected on a single date) and will soon have links to these index files as well. ********** Michael Smith State GIS Manager Maine Office of GIS NOTE - WE HAVE MOVED TO State House Station 174 264 Civic Center Drive Augusta ME 04333-0174 Board member, Maine GeoLibrary ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list Maine GeoNews (GEOLIBRARY-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all Maine GIS Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove your name and email address yourself at the this web address: http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?SUBED1=geolibrary-l&A=1 Or,you may also request that your name be removed by sending email to: [log in to unmask]