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.
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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