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More Municipal GIS Resources
Below is basic information about GIS, and information about how municipalities are saving money and increasing efficiencies using GIS along with answers to getting started with GIS in your community
- Planimetric Mapping RFP Guide/Template
- Questions and answers about municipal GIS
- Applications of GIS in local government
- Examples of quantifiable GIS benefits for communities
- MassGIS’ free web-based GIS for municipalities and other free things
- GIS In Action: Impactful examples from MassGIS
- GIS contacts at your Regional Planning Agency
- State contract for procuring GIS services
- State Contract for ESRI GIS software and services for all levels of government in Massachusetts
Are you the Addressing Authority in your municipality?
To help maintain the 911 Address database, cities and towns are required to notify MassGIS when new addresses are adopted. Most municipalities have an internal reporting system for all departments and we need to be notified too.
MassGIS's work on addressing with the State 911 Department
MassGIS is maintaining a complete Statewide address point database for State 911. The links below explain 911 grants, how to get address data files, and other mapping layers we've created to support 911. The mapping layers can be used for many purposes.
- How should your community comply with requirements for State 911 grants?
- Check your community's 911 grant eligibility status
- How we're improving emergency response mapping with your help
- Instructions about how your community should report new addresses to MassGIS for 911
- Download the address data for your community as a list or to use for GIS geocoding
- Information about MassGIS' standard for address assignment and management
- See how MassGIS used parcel mapping to create Emergency Service Zones and download that mapping
- See how we are maintaining a Statewide map of building outlines and download that data
- See how we are collecting current 351 City & Town parcel maps and download that data
- Go to EOPSS' State 911 Department website
Assessor's role and responsibilities in maintaining standardized parcel map
These pages for municipal assessors and others explain the value of maintaining standardized parcel mapping and how to do it.
- The importance of maintaining standardized parcel data
- How the LOC_ID in your mapping links to your CAMA records
- Watch a short video about how to update new CAMA records with new LOC_IDs that come from your mapping vendor
- Open interactive map to see every parcel and CAMA records-Statewide
- Learn how the Addressing Authority in municipalities must report new addresses to MassGIS
Legal disclaimers, Public Records Law and GIS
We've assembled examples of legal disclaimers for maps, webmaps and parcel maps. Electronic records are subject to the Public records Law.
MassGIS Standards
As the Commonwealth’s Bureau of Geographic Information, another of MassGIS’s responsibilities is working with stakeholders on establishing standards for the acquisition, management, and reporting of geographical information.