Hi everyone As you probably know by now, The Maine GeoLibrary, MEGIS, USGS, and the State Planning Office have been working hard to implement a new statewide orthoimagery collection program. One that is recurring, predictable, and inexpensive. We are pleased to see this moving forward in year 1, with Cumberland and York County going first. Although York County itself backed out due to political issues around the budget, many of the towns are paying that extra piece and moving forward regardless. We will begin collection in early to mid April, covering all of Cumberland County and about 1/2 of York County. Many towns have bought up to 6" or even 3" resolution. Although overdue, we have finally put together a web site for the program which is available at http://www.maine.gov/geolib, the Maine GeoLibrary web site. We are already thinking about next year and will be in touch with those counties and towns in late March. =============================== Michael Smith State GIS Manager, Maine Office of GIS State of Maine, Office of Information Technology michael.smith _at_ maine.gov 207-215-5530 Board Member, Maine GeoLibrary Board Member, Maine GIS Users Group State Rep, National States Geographic Information Council State House Station 174 264 Civic Center Drive Augusta, ME 04333-0174 69o 47' 49.5"W 44o 20' 54.5"N Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, or an authorized agent of the intended recipient, please immediately contact the sender by reply email and destroy/delete all copies of the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, copying, forwarding, disclosure, or distribution by other than the intended recipient or authorized agent is prohibited. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]