Many datasets are currently (Spring/Summer 2009) being converted to File Geodatabases for increased performance with ArcGIS 9.3 products. Please be patient while these updates are taking place. File Geodatabases include:
\GIS\NH\NH_vector.gdb
\GIS\NH\NH_DOQ_DRG.gdb
\GIS\ME\ME_vector.gdb
\GID\ME\mdifw\MDIFW.gdb
Coverage/link |
Description |
date installed |
| e911 | Update to Maine 911 roads. | 11/09 |
| NEAHCP | Data from the Northeast Aquatic Habitat Classification Program. Includes data for Northeast as well as data clipped for Maine. Includes some useful layer files and mxd's. | 11/09 |
| FWS | USFWS layers including SHC Geographic Framework, Regional Boundaries, Joint Ventures, BCRs. | 11/09 |
| iwwh | Maine inland wading bird and waterfowl NRPA sites. | 11/09 |
| conserved lands | Maine conserved lands from SPO, MDIFW and DOC. Replaces feature class mecnslnd. | 11/09 |
| BING maps | World wide imagery and base data from Microsoft/ESRI. Use m:\gis\Bing*.* layer files and mxds. This is a good source for general backgrounds. Don't forget to right-click on a layer and select 'zoom to nearest cache resolution'November 19, 2009r:inset black .75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'>11/09 | |
| salmon listing | Watershed SHRUS and more. | 11/09 |
| medotpubrds | Public roads from DOT. | 10/09 |
| index_1F | Updated index file of 1 foot orthos; corrects mistake in photo attributes | 10/09 |
| MNAP | Updated data from MNAP | 9/09 |
| York Land Trust | Conservation parcels of York Land Trust | 10/09 |
| metwp24 | Maine municipal boundaries; updated in file geodatabase only. | 9/09 |
| dem10m.img | Ten meter digital elevation model from MEGIS. | 2/09 |
| molluscan shellfish | Distribution information for sea scallop, american oysters, atlantic surf clams and others. | 9/09 |
| metwp24 | Maine towns, 24k scale; updated in the file geodatabase only. | 9/09 |
| e911rds | E911 roads updated in the file geodatabase only. | 9/09 |
| Merrymeeting Bay/Kennebec River | CIR and pseudo-color imagery for Merrymeeting Bay and Kennebec River up to the Sebasticook River (including the effects of Fort Halifax dam removal). | 7/2009 |
| Colortool | Not really data, but a cool tool to help choose good colors in color ramps. Extension is in \gis\xextensions\ColorTool. Also available online. This tool is based on the ColorBrewer webapp. | |
| Androscoggin | Lower Androscoggin depth surveys, MDIFW. Scans of paper maps. | 8/2009 |
| FAA towers | Digital Obstacle File (DOF) data of towers, including wind turbines. | 8/2009 |
| Portland parcels | Update from Public Works June 2009. | 8/2009 |
| NREL | Wind energy data from National Renewable Energy Laboratory | 8/2009 |
| facilities - EPA | Update of EPA Superfund, etc. sites. | 8/2009 |
| Maine dams | Maine dams maps from ME Office of Energy Resources, 1987. | 8/2009 |
| shorebird | Update to MDIFW shorebird database and GIS layer. | 8/2009 |
| fringing marshes | Casco Bay Estuary Partnership study and data on fringing marshes. | 7/2009 |
| iwwh | Inland wading bird habitat, MDIFW. | 7/2009 |
| facilities - EPA | Update of EPA Superfund, etc. sites. | 7/2009 |
| icensusdata | Seabird census database from MDIFW | 3/2009 |
| lynx review area | Review area for impact to lynx in northern Maine. | 3/2009 |
| parcels_ut | Parcels for Maine's unorganized towns. | 2/2009 |
| R5 NWR | Region 5 National Wildlife Refuge Boundaries | 1/2009 |
| CoveBrook | Georeferenced photos from 3 time periods for the Cove Brook area of Maine. | 1/2009 |
| EPA Ecoregions | Ecological Regions of North America as delineated by EPA. | 8/2008 |
| IWWH | Updated Inland Waterfowl and Wading Bird/Shorezone habitat data from MDIFW. | 1/2009 |
| NAWCA | NAWCA focus areas and data (including 1994 report) posted in catalog. | 1/2009 |
| MNAP | MNAP update | 1/2009 |
| e911rds | Maine e911 roads update. | 07/2009 |
| shorezone_iwwh_new | Inland wading bird and waterfowl habitat from MDIFW. | 11/2008 |
| parcels | 33 town parcels in Maine put together in one shapefile. | 11/2008 |
| lakedepths | Lake depth/bathymetry data. | 11/2008 |
| fws_R5_offices | R5 office locations based on a version of the CMT. | 10/2008 |
| fws_regions_092007 | FWS Regional boundaries | 10/2008 |
| cmt_all | FWS Corporate Master Table - office locations | 10/2008 |
| conserved lands | Data from TNC and MCHT; GOMP database also updated. | 10/2008 |
| PEARL | Some select PEARL data (fisheries) added to MDIFW directory. | 9/2008 |
| Riparian buffers | Riparian area buffers from Beginning with Habitat program | 10/2008 |
| IWWH | MDIFW Inland Wading bird and Waterfowl Habitat updated. | 10/2008 |
| lynx | Lynx locations from MDIFW. | 9/2008 |
| falmouth2007 | Falmouth town parcels | 7/2008 |
| standish parcels | Parcels and ROW for Standish, ME; includes ownership info. | 7/2008 |
| cws | Coastal waterbird surveys - new 2008 mid-winter survey. | 5/2008 |
| medoc | Various data from ME Department of Conservation; much of this data is statewide and replaces what used to be tiled in the \gis\me\100k directory. Includes bedrock, surficial geology, aquifers, coastal bluff hazards, etc. | 5/2008 |
| SoMeConland | Southern Maine conservation lands from WNERR | 3/2008 |
| MNAP | Updated rare plants and exemplary habitats. | 1/2008 |
| facilities - EPA | Update of EPA Superfund, etc. sites. | 1/2008 |
| watersheds - Maine | Updated/corrected ME_watersheds.lyr with correct HUCs. Added a level 6 shapefile. | 8/2007 |
| EPA facilities | Superfund and other sites subject to EPA regulation. | 8/2007 |
| cgd110p020 | 110th Congressional Districts for U.S. | 7/2007 |
| EVI maps | Environmental Vulerability Index maps. | 7/2007 |
| mdifw / mnap | Updated data layers. | 8/07 |
| spo | Wetland characterization data from ME State Planning Office. | 8/07 |
| metwp24 | New line and poly shapefiles for 24K political boundaries. | 07/2009 |
| mnap | Rare, threatened & endangered plants/communites from ME Natural Areas Program | 5/07 |
| e911rds | E911 roads update for Maine | 8/20/07 |
| GNIS | GNIS update for Maine. | 7/07 |
| COBRA | Coastal Barrier Resources Act data for Maine. | 7/07 |
| parcels | New parcel data for mid-coast from SVCA and Hancock County | 4/07 |
| NHD+ | 100k NHDPlus for Northeast. | 3/07 |
| dem | Maine DEM - 10 meter; not complete for entire state. | 3/07 |
| contours | USGS 24k contours; statewide | 3/07 |
| parcels | Parcel data from MEGIS for 34 towns; mostly 2005 currentness. | 1/07 |
| impounds | Updated dams data for ME. | 1/07 |
| soil survey | SSURGO; 1:24,000 soil survey data for 11 Maine counties. | 1/07 |
| metwp100 | Shapefile of Maine 100k town lines; replaces older coverage in \me\cv | 1/07 |
| NABCI regions | NABCI ecoregions clipped to U.S. | 1/07 |
| FWS Regions | Nationwide administrative regions for USFWS. | 1/07 |
| landcover | Land cover for MA, NH and ME from NOAA. | 8/06 |
| e911rds | E911 roads update for Maine | 7/06 |
| shorezone_iwwh | Updated inland waterfowl and wading bird habitat from MDIFW. | 5/06 |
| MDIFW directory | New data from MDIFW (shorebirds, ICENSUS, BCD). | 5/06 |
| 2 foot orthos | Color 2 foot orthos for parts of Franklin and Somerset counties, ME. Also new 2' index file. | 4/06 |
| e911rds | E911 roads update for Maine | 3/31/06 |
| eheagle | Bald eagle essential habitat, Maine | 3/31/06 |
| lkubnd | Lake Umbagog NWR boundary. | 2/27/06 |
| portland2004 | Portland parcels as of 2004 | 2/27/06 |
| NHD | NHD (medium density) for New England. | 1/31/06 |
| imperv | Metadata updated for IMPERV layer (gis\me\cv\imperv) | 1/31/06 |
| BCR | Bird Conservation Areas for U.S. | 1/06 |
| seabird islands | GPS field data for Jenny I, Eastern Egg Rk, Outer Green I and Stratton I. | 1/06 |
| e911rds | E911 roads update for Maine | 1/09/06 |
| NHD data | High resolution data for Maine and medium resolution data for the Gulf of Maine. | 1/06 |
| arrowsic parcels | From TNC. | 11/05 |
| wetmgss | Major wetlands in organized towns mapped by JW Sewall 1980-81; 50k | 11/05 |
| wetdlg | Wetlands from USGS 100K. | 11/05 |
| ME Senate & House Districts | Shapefiles house03 and senate03. | 11/05 |
| SPOT | SPOT imagery; leaf-on 2004, statewide. License limits further distribution of data. | 10/05 |
| ME DMR imagery | Imagery for Muscongus and western Penobscot Bay. | 10/05 |
| ME/USGS imagery | Imagery for southeastern ME | 10/05 |
| metwp24 | ME political boundaries and coastline | 10/05 |
| index100 and 250 | USGS 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 scale quad outlines. (2 shapefiles) | 10/05 |
| index24 | USGS 1:24,000 quad outlines. | 10/05 |
| imperv | Impervious surfaces in Maine; from 2004 SPOT, 5meter imager. | 10/05 |
| impounds | Dam locations from Army Corps and MDEP. 1:24,000 | 10/05 |
| cnty24 | Maine counties; 1:24,000 | 10/05 |
| cnty100 | Maine counties; 1:100,000. | 10/05 |
| cngrss03 | Congressional districts for ME | 10/05 |
| bathym100 | Bathymetry for ME coast. | 10/05 |
| bedrock | Bedrock geology units and major faults. 1:500K. | 10/05 |
| biophy | Biophysical regions of Maine. | 10/05 |
| MDIFW eagle data | Bald eagle nests (allmainenests_05) and potential additions (eh_additions05)to essential habitat designations. | 9/05 |
| e911rds | Maine roads from e911 project; high accuracy, limited coverage, limited coding. | 9/05 |
| ME Parcels | North Yarmouth parcels and zoning; 2004. | 9/05 |
| dresden2004 | Dresden, ME parcels; 2004. | 9/05 |
| ME NHD | National Hydrography data for Maine; preliminary, statewide. 1:24,000; in \gis\me\nhd | 9/05 |
| Merrymeeting Bay imagery | Georeferenced imagery for Merrymeeting Bay, Maine. | 9/05 |
| essential habitat | MDIFW essential habitat for roseate and least tern, bald eagle and piping plover. | 9/05 |
| Phipps. parcels | Phippsburg parcels (2001) from MCHT/Spatial Alternatives | 4/05 |
| ME Land Trusts | Maine_Local_Trusts_update_105_2 shows working areas of ME land trusts. | 03/05 |
| MNAP | Satewide MNAP rare plants and rare/exemplary communities. | 02/05 |
| click here | Listing of ready to use ArcMap documents, layer files, AV project files and avl files. | 02/05 |
| nwi.mdb | Personal geodatabase of statewide ME NWI. | 02/05 |
| S. ME parcels | Town parcel maps for southern ME | 02/05 |
| CNLD03 | Conservation/public lands in southern Maine, from Wells NERR. | 02/05 |
| ME hillshade | Hillshade of Maine created from medem24k. | 11/04 |
| landsat imagery | Current and historic landsat imagery of Maine and New England. | 11/04 |
| mecnslnd | Conservation lands in Maine; State Planning Office project, mostly state & federal lands; 1:24K | 10/04 |
| e911rds | Maine roads from e911 project; high accuracy, limited coverage, limited coding. | 11/08/04 |
| lkuveg | Land cover for Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge | 9/04 |
| MNWR | Latest Moosehorn boundary file was added and a dissolved version was created. | 4/5/04 |
| drg-greyscale | Replaced d:\gis\me\drg\drg_24k_grey.dbf file to fix attribute length problems. | 4/6/04 |
| mdifw | Annual update of MDIFW data, including ME coastal nesting islands. | 3/04 |
| drainage divides | Watershed/drainage divides statewide and specific watersheds. | 3/04 |
| color orthos | High resolution color orthophotos of Portland area | 1/04 |
| ME DMR | Several new GIS layers and new metadata. | 1/04 |
| MDEP | Groundwater and water classification data, hydro; MIDAS lakes. | 12/03 |
| mnap | MNAP data for Federally listed plant species and all species/communities within a 4 mile buffer around NWR's. | 5/15/03 |
| mdifw | New MDIFW data for the 2002 nesting season. | 3/21/03 |
| bathy30 | Bathymetry updated to clean up discrepancies with landcover. | 02/28/03 |
| mid-winter | Mid-winter waterfowl surveys. | 02/28/03 |
| metwp24 | Maine political boundaries, updated version; also created shapefiles and put in /me/24kbase | 10/04/02 |
Image catalog for normal color and grey-color DRGs. When these are loaded in a View and you are zoomed in, the appropriate DRGs automatically appear in your View. |
6/3/02 |
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ME DRGs with backgrounds toned down to neutral grey shades; hydro in blue. |
6/3/02 |
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Gulf of Maine bathymetry from Mass GIS (2 shapefiles) |
5/21/02 |
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65 quads added to Maine DOQ collection; DOQ’s moved into a new directory for easier use |
5/10/02 |
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On CDs |
Scans of Merrymeeting Bay aerial photography, 1956, 1981, 1998; 300+ files, 8.3GB. |
3/12/02 |
Mid-winter aerial waterfowl survey data; zones and observation data |
3/12/02 |
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Digital elevation model for Maine. |
3/8/02 |
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Small scale “DEM picture” of Maine. Binary interleave format. |
3/8/02 |
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Aerial waterbird surveys for Rachel, Great Bay and Parker River NWRs |
06/06/01 |
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Digital orthophoto quads for Maine (approximately eastern half of state); 85 new quads added 7/25/01 |
02/08/01 |
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Coastal Barrier Resource Act coverage for New England |
02/07/01 |
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in progress |
Merrymeeting Bay land cover and aerial photography |
01/09/01 |
NOAA charts (tiff format for ArcView) for Maine; gis/me/noaa; requires current CDR2 Chart Kit license from Maptech |
01/10/01 |
If you are interested in receiving any of this new data at your site please contact Bob Houston (207-781-8364).
