Hi everyone,

 

The Maine Office of GIS is pleased to announce the release of 2’ contours for lidar areas in Maine.  These data are now available on our data catalog, or for our state employees, via our enterprise geodatbase (layer GISVIEW.MEGIS.Contours_2ft).  Please read the metadata before asking questions about the contours.  The contours are tiled out by town, and currently are available for all or portions of 266 towns and townships.  As we continue to get more lidar data we will update the collection.  Due to the sheer size of these data, we will not make them available in Google Earth KMZ format.  All together they number just shy of 17 million line segments and even when zipped take up 11.5GB of disk space.

 

Also loaded last week, but not sure I announced it, we have made available a collection of historic NOAA charts from the late 1800s.  These are available as a web mapping service.   This is in the ‘topos’ WMS and is listed on the data catalog.  The purpose of this is just for historical reference, especially as many coastal buildings or roads are carefully mapped on these charts.

 

Happy contour mapping!

 

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Michael Smith MS GISP
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
Education Chair, Maine GIS Users Group
State Rep, National States Geographic Information Council


State House Station 145
51 Commerce Drive
Augusta, ME 04333-0145
69^o 47' 58.9"W  44^o 21' 54.8"N

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