MassGIS hosts a variety of online mapping applications. OLIVER is MassGIS' premier data viewer and download application. MassGIS also provides several specialized or theme-focused viewers, which are described below.
State agencies interested in including GIS and mapping capabilities in their web sites should refer to MassGIS' Web Mapping Services Catalog. Developers can learn more about MassGIS' Geospatial Web Services.
MORIS
| MORIS is the Massachusetts Ocean Resource Information SystemThe Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management's (CZM) online mapping tool is a version of OLIVER that can be used to search and display spatial data pertaining to the Massachusetts coastal zone. Users can:
... All right over the Web, within your web browser. |
CZM Boston Harbor Habitat Atlas
Displays several categories of data, including "Human Dimension" (Census, land use/land cover, roads) along with many coastal and offshore data, focusing on Boston Harbor.
CZM MORIS Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
Displays coastal and offshore features pertaining to the Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan, including management areas (multi-use, prohibited, provisional, wind energy), Special, Sensitive or Unique Resources (e.g., water bird and whale habitats) water-dependent uses, and many more.
CZM Coastal Public Access Sites
Displays information useful to prospective visitors to the Massachusetts coastline (hopefully, that's you!). Along the Coastline Drive that roughly parallels our 1500 miles of spectacular ocean shoreline, the public has access to a thousand beaches, parks, conservation areas, and other waterfront properties owned by government and non-profit land trusts. The Access Locator will help you find these varied places and discover what each has to offer, ranging from the well-publicized expanses of National Seashore down to the smallest footpaths and landings that only the locals know. To learn more about CZM's shoreline public access to the coastal zone, and about hard-copy access guides published to date, see the CZM website at http://www.mass.gov/czm/spa2.htm.
CZM Shoreline Change Project
Displays information on coastal shoreline change rates for several time periods, generally from the mid-1800s to 1994.
Read the fact sheet and at the bottom of the page click the "Yes" button to proceed to the online maps and transect data.
DCR Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs)
This viewer can be used to display and find information on Areas of Critical Environmental Concern. Developed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
DCR Dams
Displays dams with the option of zooming to dam id or filtering list of dams by town.
DCR Watershed Protection Act
This viewer can be used to find information on how the Watershed Protection Act (WsPA) affects parcels in the Quabbin, Ware and Wachusett watersheds. Users can search by city/town, sheet id and parcel id, or address. The Watershed Protection Act (WsPA) regulates land use and activities within critical areas of the Quabbin Reservoir, Ware River and Wachusett Reservoir watersheds for the purpose of protecting the quality of drinking water. See http://www.mass.gov/dcr/waterSupply/watershed/wspa.htm for more information on the Watershed Protection Act.
EEA Environmental Justice
Displays neighborhoods across the state with high minority, non-English speaking and low-income populations (based on 2010 U.S. Census data). Such areas are the focus of EOEEAs EJ Policy, which was developed to use state resources to ensure that EJ populations receive a strong voice in environmental decision-making.
EEA Wind Energy Large Scale Site Screening Tool
Displays environmental data suitable for a wind turbine site assessment. Many datalayers include annual mean wind speeds, potential wind development sites, 1000 ft residential wind buffer, environmental exclusions and concerns, roads, hydrography, contours, landuse, parcel boundaries, and others. Layers may be turned on and off.
EOHED Planning Ahead for Growth Mapping Tool
Developed by the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development and MassGIS, this online interactive mapping tool allows users to view the Commonwealth’s priority housing and economic development areas. Included are editing tools for state agency users to add polygons to see how their policies, programs and projects align with housing and economic development efforts.
MassDEP Priority Resource
The MassDEP Priority Resource Map displays environmental data that appears on a Numerical Ranking System (NRS) site assessment map as required by MassDEP under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan or MCP (310 CMR 40.0000), which sets out the requirements for reporting, assessing and remediating contaminated sites.
However, If you want to create and print an MCP Numerical Ranking System (NRS) Site Map go to
http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/images/dep/mcp/mcp.htm
The information shown on this map comes from many different sources, at different scales. Some data may not be complete, some generalization may occur, and some information may not have been field verified. The Priority Resource Map is scale sensitive and will only draw when the map viewer is zoomed in to an appropriate, large scale. At smaller scales only the underlying base map will be displayed.
MassDEP Title 5 Setback Areas
The MassDEP Title 5 Setback Areas Map displays the estimated minimum setback distances from surface water and wetlands as required under 310 CMR 15.000 (Title 5), for the siting, construction, inspection, upgrade and expansion of on-site sewage treatment and disposal systems, including septic tanks, holding tanks, pump chambers, treatment units and soil absorption systems. Title 5 regulations have minimum setback requirements and nitrogen loading requirements for the installation of septic systems in certain areas. This map was created to be used by the public as a tool to aid in identifying water resources of concern for purposes of Title 5. The map generally shows the natural resources that require protection from these systems. The map is not to be used in place of any necessary survey.
The information shown on this map comes from many different sources, at different scales. Some data may not be complete, some generalization may occur, and some information may not have been field verified. The Title 5 Setback Areas Map is scale sensitive and will only draw when the map viewer is zoomed in to an appropriate, large scale. At smaller scales only the underlying base map will be displayed.
MassDEP Water Supply Protection Areas
The MassDEP Water Supply Protection Areas Map displays Community and Non-community Public Water Supply (PWS) ground and surface water sources with Interim Wellhead Protection Areas (IWPA), Approved Wellhead Protection Areas (Zone II) and Surface Water Protection Areas (Zone A, Zone B and Zone C) as defined in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Drinking Water Regulations (310 CMR 22.02).
The information shown on this map comes from many different sources, at different scales. Some data may not be complete, some generalization may occur, and some information may not have been field verified. The Water Supply Protection Areas Map is scale sensitive and will only draw when the map viewer is zoomed in to an appropriate,large scale. At smaller scales only the underlying base map will be displayed.
Wetland and Wetland Change Areas
The Wetland and Wetland Change Areas Map displays MassDEP developed wetland areas interpreted from 1:12,000 scale, stereo color-infrared (CIR) photography captured in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999 and 2000. The map also includes Wetland Change areas interpreted from three separate iterations of MassGIS orthophotography.
The wetland and wetland change areas represented on this map have been determined solely through photo-interpretation. They do not represent, and should not be used as, wetlands delineation under the Wetlands Protection Act (M.G.L. c. 131, sec. 40) and the implementing regulations (310 CMR 10.00 et seq.).
The Wetland and Wetland Change Areas Map is scale sensitive and will only draw when the map viewer is zoomed in to an appropriate, large scale. At smaller scales only the underlying base map will be displayed.
Mass. Audubon Butterfly Atlas
The Mass Audubon Butterfly Atlas Viewer allows you to interactively create your own maps of all or a portion of the state, identify all species found in a survey block during the Atlas period, and overlay butterfly distribution on road, land use and aerial photograph backgrounds.
Mass. Audubon Breeding Bird Atlas
The Mass Audubon Breeding Bird Atlas Viewer allows you to interactively create your own maps of all or a portion of the state, identify all species found in a survey block during the Atlas period, and overlay bird distribution with roads and topographic backgrounds.
NHESP 2008 Priority and Estimated Habitats
Displays two 2008 layers developed by the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program - Priority Habitats and Estimated Habitats. For more information on these layers see their datalayer description pages: Priority Habitats | Estimated Habitats .
NHESP BioMap2
Displays two layers developed by the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program - BioMap2 Core Habitat and BioMap2 Critical Natural Landscapes. For more information on this program see: BioMap2.
Legislative District Browser
Displays the Commonwealth's Senate and House legislative districts. Users may search for their district based on municipality, legislator, or district name. When identifying the districts, the results contain links to their Senate and House representative's Web pages.
Census 2000 Demographics by Legislative District
Displays the Commonwealth's Senate and House legislative districts. Users may search for their district based on municipality, Zip Code, legislator, or district name, and then display a map and link to their Senate and House representative's Web pages.
Census 2000 Demographics by Town
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Last Updated 1/4/2013
