FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A GIS INVENTORY OF
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATION LANDS
Applied Geographics, Inc.
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Geographic Markup Tool:
Reports:
Phase
1: Feasibility Study for GIS Inventory of New England Conservation Lands
NEARC Presentation | Portland, ME | September, 2005 (PDF)
EPA Presentation: Feburary
13, 2003: AGI: Sutton Powerpoint presentation.
EPA Presentation: Feburary
13, 2003: EFC: Merrill Powerpoint presentation.
MassGIS Web Mapping Services
Documentation
New Hampshire
Conservation Lands Viewer (NGI)
Vermont Center for Geographic Information
Map Center
Appalachian Mountain Club:
Interactive Mapping
New England
Forestry Foundation Forests Map
The Nature Conservancy – Map to
Place Viewer
Applied Geograpics
Demonstration Markup Tool (
As a
component of the project, AGI assembled current conservation GIS data from all
respective state managing agencies. This
database was augmented with public domain 1:24000 Census basemap information as
well as municipal boundaries, roads and railroads from state agencies and
various sources. The result is a
working, consolidated database containing a snapshot of state conservation
lands that is viewable through ESRI ArcMap.
The maps
below were generated out of ArcMap, and vary in scale
but contain standard symbology. Some of
these maps require Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer.
Download
Adobe Acrobat here . Some of these
maps will not scale or output properly on certain printers.
Comparison of the data
of the respective states at the borders provides an interesting illustration of
their varying quality and quantity. It
also provides some sense of how land acquisition and protection strategies vary
from state to state.
Maine – New
Hampshire (1:120,000 scale): Shows discrepancy between data quality and quantity between
the states.
New Hampshire –
Massachusetts (1:48,000 scale): Shows comparative data between the states.
Connecticut –
Rhode Island – Massachusetts (1:48,000 scale): Data comparison of the three
states’ data at their borders.
Massachusetts
– Vermont – New Hampshire (1:72,000 scale) : Data comparison of the three states’ data at their
borders. Note how more extensive the
holdings of
Augusta, Maine:
Conservation Lands (1:64,000 scale): Depicts City of Augusta and immediately surrounding
area with conservation lands in green.
These are plotted verbatim from the Maine Office of GIS (MeGIS)
downloadable data.
Portland, Maine:
Conservation Lands (1:64,000 scale): Depicts City of Portland and immediately surrounding
area with conservation lands in green.
These are plotted verbatim from the Maine Office of GIS (MeGIS)
downloadable data.
Mount Desert
Island (1:120,000 scale):
Belgrade Lakes
(1:120,000 scale): Chain of lakes in
New Haven (1:64,000
scale): Massive
constellation of conservation property in and around
Hartford (1:64,000 scale):
Amherst,
Massachusetts: Conservation Lands (1:58,000 scale) Town of
Amherst,
Massachusetts: Detail (Southeast corner of town) including parcels (1:24,000
scale): Shows
match of parcel level data and state-maintained conservation data, including
gaps, slivers and gores. Conservation
lands polygons contain all categories of protection, including easements and
Chapter 61 lands, commonly considered to be highly vulnerable to loss of
protection.
Cape Ann, Massachusetts:
Conservation Lands (1:100,000 scale) City of
Orange,
Massachusetts (1:64,000 scale).
NH GRANIT Conservation
Lands Viewer Effective,
attractive and popular solution to accessing NH conservation lands data over
the web. The Conservation Lands Viewer
was developed by the GRANIT staff at UNH and
Nashua, New Hampshire:
Conservation Lands (1:64,000 scale):
Manchester, New
Hampshire (1:64,000 scale)
Newport, Rhode Island:
Conservation Lands (1:64,000 scale)
Providence, Rhode
Island: Conservation Lands (1:64,000 scale)
Burlington,
Vermont: Conservation Lands (1:64,000 scale) Depicts City of Burlington and
immediately surrounding area with conservation lands in green. These are plotted verbatim from the Vermont
Office of GIS.
Montpelier – Barre - Berlin Vermont: Conservation Lands (1:90,000 scale)
Capital city and
surrounding areas.