Planimetric GIS Data and Links
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Albemarle County Miscellaneous Data - a Guide
The Scholars' Lab holds a collection of miscellaneous georeferenced data developed by the Albemarle County Department of Planning. These drawings may be obtained for use at the University of Virginia and may be used in GIS, CAD, and other imaging packages.
Albemarle County, Charlottesville City, University of Virginia Planimetric Data: A Guide
This page gives an overview of the Scholars' Lab's planimetric data collection obtained from the University of Virginia, the City of Charlottesville, the Albemarle County Service Authority and Albemarle County. The collection includes a variety of shapefiles, CAD data and aerial photos for all of Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville for varying years. This page will also give links to more detailed descriptions of each specific collection as well as index maps to help locate the proper files.
Alexandria Planimetric Data
Help page for the City of Alexandria planimetric data.
Cartesia - Rome's GIS
Cartesia is a cooperative of the City of Rome and Telecom Italia
The site has some free data available for download.
An English version of the site is under construction.
Charlottesville and Albemarle Geographic Data Guide
Charlottesville/Albemarle scanned topographic maps and aerial photos as well as links to descriptions of GIS data available from the Scholars' Lab.
Chesapeake Planimetric Data
Help page for the City of Chesapeake planimetric data.
Fairfax County Planimetric Data (1999)
Help page for Fairfax County planimetric data.
geodata.gov - National Spatial Data Portal
geodata.gov is a web-based portal for one-stop access to maps, data and other geospatial services that will simplify the ability of all levels of government and citizens to find geospatial data and learn more about geospatial projects underway.
Goochland Planimetric Data
Help page for the Goochland County planimetric data.
Hanover Planimetric Data
Help page for the Hanover County planimetric data.
Harrisonburg Planimetric Data
Help page for the City of Harrisonburg planimetric data.
Henrico Planimetric Data
Help page for the Henrico County planimetric data.
Indiana Spatial Data Portal
A gazetteer of Indiana GIS data available for download in a smart interface.
LOSCO Louisiana Data
A collection of Louisiana data compiled by the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office.
Loudoun County Planimetric Data (1998)
Help page for Loudoun County planimetric data.
New Jersey Geographic Information Network
NJGIN Explorer's data catalog is focused primarily on New Jersey. Some data sets are available for download via the Internet, some are served "Live" and can be used online by appropriate GIS software, and some are offline and must be requested from the distributor. Many data sets of all types are available free of charge; some require a fee or license. Information about applications, downloadable data, dynamic data and maps, web services, static maps and geospatial-related documents, or gray literature, is cataloged on the Explorer and can be searched in a variety of ways - by content type, theme, keyword, or even recent postings.
New York City Geographic Data Guide
This page gives a good list of geographic data resources for the City of New York. These resources include links to scanned maps, on-line web mapping sites and other related sites.
NSDI Clearinghouse
The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a collection of over 260 spatial data servers, that have digital geographic data primarily for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), image processing systems, and other modelling software. These data collections can be searched through a single interface based on their descriptions, or "metadata." Do NOT assume that only sites in Virginia will hold data about Virginia.
On-line Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure
This site gives you access to publically available data for the state of Arkansas. All available digital map data for the state of Arkansas will be in GeoStor. This includes roads, streams, aerial photography, satellite imagery, and elevation data. There are more than 200 vector feature classes (e.g.. roads, soils) and more than 350 raster ones (including statewide aerial photography, elevation, satellite imagery etc.). The AHTD is cooperating with the State Land Information Board to provide the AHTD county map files as well.
Richmond City Planimetric Data (2000)
Help page for Richmond City planimetric data.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Utah
Ditigal collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps for some cities in Utah. Maps can be browsed or searched to find a particluar street or city. Maps come with GREAT metadata.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Charlottesville, Washington D.C., Virginia and New York
This site contains full-color images of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Charlottesville in 1907 and 1920 and a link to the UMI website that offers access to black-and-white images of all Virginia, Washington DC, and New York City Sanborn maps. The UMI site covering Virginia, DC and NYC is restricted to UVA students and staff.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Fredericksburg Virginia
Digitized Sanborn Maps from 1886, 1891, 1896, 1907, 1912 for Fredericksburg Virginia.
The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago Map Collection
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is a dynamic and unprecedented metropolitan history. Thousands of historical resources-including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers-related to Chicago's colorful and complex history are at your fingertips.
The National Map
Another USGS web mapping site. Similar to seamless.usgs.gov.
A large amount of vector and raster data from several federal agencies. A smaller set of the data is available for download.
Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission
An intergovernmental agency created to assist planning activities in the Charlottesville area. A potentially useful resource for information about local businesses, demographic profiles, or questions about where to turn for furhter information.
Virginia Beach Planimetric Data
Help page for the City of Virginia Beach planimetric data.
Wake County and the City of Raleigh's Online Mapping Service
Interactive Map service for Wake County North Carolina and the city of Raleigh North Carolina. You can get maps of properties (owner/deed information) Environmental features, ortho photos, county and city zoning, electoral districts, parks and greenways, demogrpahic, cultural faciliites, transportation and Raleigh Planimetrics.
Can't find what you're looking for at the Scholars' Lab? Try these other labs and groups around Grounds: