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Data updates

  • MA DFW Coldwater Fisheries Resources
    June 25, 2019 - Additional features were added to the layer by the Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.
  • MassDOT Highway Districts
    June 21, 2019 - New layer includes the six current districts.
  • MassDEP Water Quality Monitoring Stations
    June 20, 2019 - The latest update from MassDEP Division of Watershed Management, Watershed Planning Program to fulfill Federal Clean Water Act requirements.
  • DCR Mass Parks Regions
    June 17, 2019 - New layer representing the administrative and management units for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Mass Parks Division.
  • Level 3 Assessors’ Parcel Mapping
    June 14, 2019 - 37 municipalities: Adams, Amherst, Bernardston, Blandford, Brimfield, Charlemont, Chester, Dalton, Danvers, Framingham, Halifax, Haverhill, Holden, Lanesborough, Littleton, Lynn, Malden, Mattapoisett, Medfield, Middlefield, Milford, Millis, Millville, Monson, Natick, Northfield, Otis, Paxton, Plympton, Rowe, Shirley, South Hadley, Swampscott, Tolland, Upton, Washington, and Windsor.
  • Schools (Pre-K through High School)
    June 6, 2019 - Statewide update based on Mass. Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education school profiles database as of March 27, 2019.
  • Public School Districts
    June 6, 2019 - The districts are now split into two layers: (1) municipal and regional public school districts, and (2) charter, collaborative, superintendency union and vocational districts.
  • 2016 Land Cover/Land Use
    May 22, 2019 - This statewide dataset contains a combination of land cover mapping from 2016 aerial imagery and land use derived from standardized assessor parcel information for Massachusetts.
  • Long Term Care Residences
    May 7, 2019 - Update of the point data layer containing the locations of licensed nursing homes, rest homes and assisted living residences in Massachusetts.
  • Protected and Recreational Open Space
    May 2, 2019 - Energy and Environmental Affairs GIS staff have updated the Protected and Recreational OpenSpace layers (arcs and polygons), available from MassGIS. Since the last publication to the web, staff at EEA and its associated agencies performed edits that improved the boundaries and/or descriptive geography to more than 3,800 polygons in 126 municipalities.

    New shapefile and personal geodatabase downloads represent data updated as of 3/13/2018.

    The details:
    • Added or improved the boundaries of recreational areas and open spaces. Six school athletic fields, 477 conservation areas, 11 flood control areas, 12 cemeteries, 37 water supply lands, 17 parks, and 144 conservation restrictions were improved. The latest edits to the database resulted in a net gain of more than 3,390 acres.
    • Town-wide updates were performed in Dover and Springfield.
    • The Department of Conservation and Recreation – Watershed performed edits in ten municipalities, adding to the database almost 400 acres.
    • The Department of Fish and Game performed edits in six towns and increased the overall acreage in the database by 22 acres.
    • The Department of Agricultural Resources made spatial improvements to previously digitized agricultural preservation restrictions, adding 15 acres to the database.
    • Additional digitizing was completed for EEA-sponsored programs:
      • Two projects were digitized from EEA grants that were completed Local Acquisitions for Natural Diversity, and Landscape Partnership.
      • Nine acquisitions that involved the Conservation Land Tax Credit program were added.
         
  • MassDEP data layers
    April 11, 2019 - The MassDEP GIS Group has updated the Public Water Supplies, wellhead (Zone II, Zone I, IWPA) protection areas, MassDEP Ground Water Discharge Permits, Chapter 21e Sites and AUL Sites data, available from MassGIS. Data are current as of 4/9/2019.
  • EOHHS Regions
    March 14, 2019 - 2010 population values were added for each of the six regions.
  • Non-Potential Drinking Water Source Areas
    February 7, 2019 - MassDEP has made updates to this layer.
  • RMV Locations
    February 5, 2019 - MassGIS updated this layer to reflect recent changes to the locations of Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) service centers and AAA branch offices that provide many RMV services.
  • Wards and Precincts
    January 29, 2019 - New polygon data layer representing all municipal wards and precincts in Massachusetts.
  • Courthouses
    January 18, 2019 - New point data layer shows the location of all courthouses in Massachusetts.
  • Massachusetts Legislative Districts and Administrative Boundaries
    January 9, 2019 - MassGIS has updated the polygon attribute tables of the following legislative and administrative boundary data layers following the swearing in of newly elected officials from the November 2018 elections:
  • Prisons
    January 4, 2019 - MassGIS has updated this statewide layer.
  • New and Updated Hospitals Data
    December 27, 2018 - MassGIS has updated the Acute Care Hospitals data layer. A new layer, Non-acute Care Hospitals, is now available. Both layers are based on data from the Mass. Dept. of Public Health and CHIA.
  • MassDOT Roads
    November 29, 2018 - Statewide update based on MassDOT's 2017 year-end road inventory. Also includes additional linework from MassGIS' NextGen911 "base streets" and other improvements.
  • ZIP Codes (5-Digit) from HERE (Navteq)
    November 26, 2018 - Update based on HERE (Navteq) 2018 Q2 data.
  • MassDEP Eelgrass Mapping Project
    August 9, 2018 - This update adds data from 2015-17 and combines the layers from 2010-13 into one feature class.
  • Google Ortho Imagery
    August 3, 2018 - Spring 2018 imagery for Greater Boston/MetroWest areas; Late winter 2018 imagery for the Cape Cod and the Islands.
  • MBTA Rapid Transit
    June 28, 2018 - The SL3 branch of the Silver Line to Chelsea was added.
  • Colleges and Universities
    June 5, 2018 - MassGIS has updated this point data layer based on all Massachusetts colleges listed in the National Center for Education Statistics website as of March 12, 2018. Additional schools were added from lists of professional occupational/vocational institutions compiled by the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Division of Professional Licensure. MassGIS geocoded site addresses to the Master Address Database and verified them using current ortho imagery and Internet map sources.
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