MAINE INTERNET MAP SITES

MAINE INTERNET MAPPING

The State of Maine by Map

Following is a list of Maine-specific or Maine-related internet sites containing information presented as a map or maps. These are organized by thematic content and include both scanned static maps and dynamically rendered data provided through a wide array of technologies. Sites included in this list do not generally require additional technology or viewing software and are presented for quick and easy access. This list does not emphasize sites supplying raw GIS data or map services hosted for processing by GIS professionals.

This site is presently being maintained by Reference Standard, in cooperation with the Maine GeoLibrary as part of ongoing statewide geospatial planning in the State of Maine. It was originally created by Richard Sutton at AppGeo as a component of the 2002 Maine Statewide GIS Strategic Plan. For current information relating to statewide geospatial planning please reference the Maine GeoSpatial Planning weblog.

To report broken links or to submit additional sites for inclusion, please email rs@restmap.net

Updated: 03 January 2008

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AGRICULTURE

STATISTICS

CropMAP Series of maps at state and county levels describing ecoregions and hardiness zones. Also contains county by county statistical data in tabular form. Service of Purdue University.

Crop Map Time Series. Department of Agriculture Census / COA, 2004 [offline 2007.1220]

Maine Census of Agriculture, 1997. Land in Farms, Market Value of Ag Products, Selected Crops Harvested. By County (pdf)

AGRI PESTS + INFESTATIONS

Data from National Agricultural Pest Information System

European gypsy moth	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Golden Nematode					1999
Japanese beetle			1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002				Recent
Pine shoot beetle	1995				1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	USA	Recent
Potato Mop Top Virus											USA	Recent
Potato Virus												Recent
Soybean Rust										2004	USA
Viburnum leaf beetle											USA	Recent

COMMERCIAL

Maine Farmers Markets Map Shows locations of all farmers markets in Maine in 2004

Locations of Organic Farms | National map from USDA; includes downloadable .kmz data

DEMOGRAPHICS

US CENSUS

108^th Congress and Municipality type map (pdf) | depicts municipality types – incorporated places, tribal areas, national park service land;

US CENSUS VIEWER

TIGER data (1998) display and query through a webmapping application. During business hours this application is too slow to be useful.

HOUSING, REGULATED SITES

HUD Homes and Communities Application ; seems to be finicky and IE-dependant;

MUNICIPAL DATA + MAPS

City Data Viewer | a somewhat chaotic collection of links and maps organized as individual towns and cities; contains housing and population data as well as crime, weather, cultural, educational and other data. Major municipal categories are cities over 6,000, 1000-6,000, and under 6,000. Sample: Augusta

SEDAC - CIESIN CENSUS VIEWER (1990 Data)

US Census data from the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network and the SocioEconomic Data and Applicatons Center at NASA.

http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/ddv20/htmls/map-intro.html [offline 2007.1220]

SCHOOL DISTRICTS Demographics Mapping:

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) map viewer for displaying, querying and comparing school districts in Maine and nationwide.

STATUS: 2007.1220: poorly performing and antiquated; mapserver type and source unknown;

http://maps.nces.ed.gov/sddsgis/mapsviewerusa.asp?focus=onestate&state=23

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Tourism / Vacation

Maine Office of Tourism interactive map | statewide Flash map presentation

Downeast Scenic Rail Route | Route map of heritage rail project (PDF | 3.5 MB | 2007)

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Maine Enhanced 911 Status Map (Maine Office of GIS)

http://megisims.state.me.us/website/e911stat/viewer.htm

Town Resources Viewer

Viewer for locating Emergency Management Offices and critical facilities/sensitive receptors statewide. Includes fast and attractive printing format.

STATUS: 2007.1220: loads fine, selection by town fails

http://musashi.ogis.state.me.us/mogis/html/Y2Kmap-New.htm

ENVIRONMENT

AIR QUALITY MAPS

Directory of EPA current and archived maps of air quality, ozone and forecasts; Sample: Facility Emissions

AIR QUALITY (OZONE)

Maine DEP clearinghouse site for air quality in the state. Links to many other weather/air quality locations.

http://www.state.me.us/dep/air/ozone/

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION

National Trends Network monitoring site for, among other things, Mercury concentrations in rainwater falling on Maine.

BEGINNING WITH HABITAT

Habitat-based map series describing water resources + riparian habitats, high value plant + animal habitats, and undeveloped habit blocks for Maine towns.

Functional map description

statewide status map

BIOREGIONS and CONSERVATION LANDS

The Nature Conservancy map and analysis products.

http://gis.tnc.org/data/MapbookWebsite/map_page.php?map_id=33

http://gis.tnc.org/data/MapbookWebsite/map_page.php?map_id=35

http://gis.tnc.org/data/MapbookWebsite/map_page.php?map_id=43

The Nature Conservancy Internet Map Server: Contains parks, managed areas, eco-regions etc for US including Maine. [offline 2007.1220]

CONSERVATION LANDS, ECONOMY

Wilderness Society OIK/OS Conservation/Development Tool. A simple ArcIMS application with basemap layers, parks and federal lands. [offline 2007.1220]

EPA ENVIROMAPPER

ESRI ArcIMS application for viewing various superfund, water discharge and other activities. Locate by zip code.

GEOLOGY

Maine Geological Survey Content:

Paleontology Portal

INVASIVES

Invasive Plant Atlas of New England. Use the Search By Place query to display field records of invasives. Provides rudimentary maps as well as downloadable data in mappable (tabular + comma delimited) formats

LAKES INFORMATION

STATUS: 2007.1220: loads but buggy and ostensibly unmaintained

UMO PEARL Project. Access to information on over 5700 Maine lakes.

LAND COVER and VEGETATION

Land Cover of Maine project by the Maine Image Analysis Lab at UMO. Static maps depicting agricultural and forestry information by municipality (1993-)

Static maps describing Maine forest cover, ownership and land cover change

http://www.ume.maine.edu/~MIAL/maine_cd/second_page/land.htm

LAND COVER and CHANGE ANALYSIS

Penobscot Bay Watershed Towns: Innovative change analysis presentation showing 1986 - 1993 change.

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/maine/html/townsel.htm#maps [offline 2007.1220]

LAND TRUST NETWORK TRUST LOCATOR

Maine Land Trust Network applilication for identifying operating areas of trusts in Maine. MapIT web mapping application,

http://www.mltn.org/ltmap.html [offline 2007.1220]

LAND TRUSTS: KENNEBEC LAND TRUST PROPERTIES

map of properties (image in htm page, 2006)

LIGHT POLLUTION

Mount Desert Island, College of the Atlantic; methodology

PRECIPITATION MONITORING NETWORK (USGS)

http://me.water.usgs.gov/precip.html

REGULATED FACILITIES, WATER RESOURCES

US EPA Enviromapper. Many options for various thematic presentations. Mapping includes Brownfields, Watersheds, Superfund sites, and others. Not a very dependable site.

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/

RIVER INFORMATION

NOAA National Weather Service NORTHEAST River Forecast Center

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/

WATER (GROUND) NETWORK (USGS)

http://me.water.usgs.gov/gwnet.html

WATER (SURFACE) NETWORK (USGS)

http://me.water.usgs.gov/swnet.html

WATER QUALITY MAPS (Maine Department of Environmental Protection)

http://www.state.me.us/dep/blwq/mdepmaps.htm

WATERSHED (Maine Public Water Supply Watersheds)

PEARL ESRI ArcIMS service depicting all watersheds in Maine which serve as public water supplies. Slow to load but informative.

http://pearl2.spatial.maine.edu/website/pearlmaptest/viewer.htm

WATERSHED (Sebago Lake)

Milfoil Survey

WATERSHED (Gulf of Maine)

NOAA Gulf of Maine. Static linked maps.

http://sposerver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/gomaine/EDA_MAP.html

WATERSHED (Presumpscot)

NASA/UCONN/Nautilus:

http://resac.uconn.edu/website/presump_allfile_hv/viewer.htm [offline 2005.04]

http://resac.uconn.edu/maps_data/study_watersheds/maps_dataME.html [offline 2005.04]

WETLANDS (National Wetlands Inventory) Mapviewer

ArcIMS area query page. Slow ArcIMS response times, but interesting information once it comes up. Best used off peak hours (nights and weekends).

http://ecos.fws.gov/nwi_mapplet/

FACILITIES and RECREATION

Hunting

Moose Hunting (Selected Wildlife Management) Districts

Inland Fisheries and Wildlife clickable map of moose hunting regions and details

Turkey Hunting Zone

BAsiInland Fisheries and Wildlife clickable map of spring turkey hunting areas

Wildlife Management District Maps

Directory of Maine’s wildlife management districts

Parks, Public Reserved Lands and Historic Sites

Department of Conservation clickable map-based index (DOC secondary links DEAD August, 2002)

http://www.ume.maine.edu/~MIAL/maine_cd/tertiary_page/land/map.htm (UMO Mirror)

Maine State Parks

Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands individual park maps:

From University of Texas Map Library:

Acadia National Park

Baxter State Park

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE GUIDE

Hillshade with points of interest information; Hosted by I-Map out of Missouri; slow and coarse;

Recreation

Snowmobile Trail Maps Directory of Maine’s interconnected trail system of snow machine maps. (PDF, 700K | 2006)

Skiing: Sugarloaf

Skiing: Sunday River

Skiing: Squaw

GENERAL REFERENCE / EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

National Geographic Map Machine

Early testbed of webmapping by cartographic giant, National Geographic. A little bit dated by the end of 2003.

Alexandria Digital Library

University of California at Santa Barbara online mapping project. Some useful Maine resources.

College of the Atlantic: Map Gallery

Various thematics hosted by the COA, many relating to Maine coastal communities.

National Atlas

Collaborative undertaking of the US Dept of the Interior (USGS), ESRI begun in 1997. Small (1:2,000,000) scale data.

http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/natlasstart.asp

MeGIS Basemap Viewer

NOAA Nautical Charts

Harvard University Engineering: Scanned NOAA charts of Maine coast and elsewhere.

University of Maine – Fogler Library

Geostats Spatial, Socioeconomic and Natural Resource Data Service; map services and data; primarily from MEGIS

UT PCL Library

Maine-specific maps in the extremely useful University of Texas at Austin Online Library.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/maine.html

Casco Bay Islands

Counties of Maine (US Census)

HEALTH

Federally Designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas MeGIS

Federally Designated Medically Underserved Areas and Populations MeGIS

Federally Designated Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas MeGIS

HISTORIC

Peavy Resource Center

MAINE 1860: Historical Scan

MAPS and PANORAMAS

Index to high resolution scanned images from the LIbrary of Congress. Includes numerous historic maps that can be viewed through a browser or downloaded as large MRSID format. Type MAINE in search box.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdquery.html

Interactive maps of the state and individual town landscapes.

MAINE 1799: Osgood Carleton

Augusta 1823: Cyril Searle, oblique landscape

Hallowell 1794: Ephraim Ballard

Hallowell 1878: A. Ruger, birdseye view

NOAA Scanned Coastal Image Repository

Click link and type in Maine or a specific area. Many historical coastal NOAA charts

http://historicals.ncd.noaa.gov/historicals/histmap.asp

Quad Index, Historic Dimond Library, UNH

Historic topographic maps for New England available as images. Incluedes maps of NH, CT, MA, RI, VT, and NY

http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm

IMAGERY

AERIAL & NAUTICAL CHARTS

Maptech Mapserver: Free aeronautical, nautical, topograhic and ortho imagery where available (Maine and the rest of the US); slow down

http://mapserver.maptech.com

Direct link to Portland

COASTAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY VIEWER

Department of Marine Resources Planning and Response tool.

http://www.state.me.us/dmr/aerialphotos/

GOOGLE SATELLITE IMAGERY

Google Maps with satellite imagery option. Imagery data are fairly coarse for Maine.

ORTHOPHOTOGRAPHY

TerraServer: Commercial orthoimagery of the world. Navigate to location (watermarked) and purchase digital data or hardcopy; flood zones and parcels purportedly available in some locations; operated out of Raleigh, NC;

TerraServer-USA: Original Microsoft-built and SQL Server powered site for delivering free USGS imagery for the US; when originally launched in 1998 this provided revolutionary data access, but in the past decade the split with TerraServer and more importantly advances in hosting/distribution technology have made this something of an artifact; relationship between TerraServer + TerraServer-USA described here;

USGS Internet Map Server

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form

USGS QUADRANGLES

TopoZone: Topographic Maps of the entire state (and USA) at multiple scales. Includes direct links to trails information.

http://www.topozone.com/findresults.asp?place=&statefips=23&placesearch=Search

Direct link to Augusta

Direct link to Portland

Direct link to Baxter State Park

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Drug violations per county; Metro Areas; FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, University of Maine, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center; Rural Substance Abuse Program Map Index

MARINE

Gulf of MAINE Ocean Observation System (GOMOOS)

Main Mapping Portal: Includes current/recent information on numerous ocean and atmospheric condition variables

Gulf of MAINE Ocean Council on the Marine Environment

Gulf of Maine Watershed Map (HI RES) LO RES

Digital Bathymetry

Gulf of Maine / US Fish and Wildlife Habitat Analysis

Map Index, Study Area Image

Casco Bay (Sample)

Gulf of Maine (Taskforce Atlantis)

Oblique bathymetery map

Gulf of Maine Atlantic Herring Stocks

MARINE MAINE COAST GUIDE

Guide to all harbors on the Maine coast including charts. Copyright Diamond Pass Publishing

http://www.coastguides.com/r5/r5.html?http%3A//www.coastguides.com/r5/5.61Somes.html

MARINE RESOURCES ATLAS

Island Institute E-Atlas. Includes information on Groundfish, Herring and Lobster habitat.

http://atlas.islandinstitute.org/findamap/interactivemaps.asp?section=introduction

PENOBSCOT BAY PROJECT

Linked Image Index

Study Images Clearinghouse

Puffin Study

Research Areas Index, Audubon Project Puffin

NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

Julie N Oil Spill, Portland

http://www.state.me.us/dep/rwm/JulieN/story3.htm

NOAA Nautical Charts

Harvard University Engineering: Scanned NOAA charts of Maine coast and elsewhere.

WATERSHED (Gulf of Maine)

NOAA Gulf of Maine. Static linked maps.

http://sposerver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/gomaine/EDA_MAP.html

WHALE SIGHTINGS Map

MUNICIPAL + REGIONAL PLANNING

Auburn General Purpose Municipal GIS (CDM)

Bath General Purpose Municipal GIS (DeLorme)

Brunswick General Purpose Municipal GIS (Woodard+Curran)

Carrabassett Valley Tax Mapping System, Including Sugarloaf Mountain (BeyondGEO)

Ellsworth Municipal Viewer, ArcIMS [offline Spring2005]

Falmouth GPCOG Parcel Viewer (Spatial Alternatives)

Lewiston GIS Viewer and access to published maps (CDM)

Lisbon Town of Lisbon Land Use and Zoning (BeyondGEO)

Norway Town of Norway Property Parcels map (BeyondGEO)

Paris Town of Paris Property Parcels map (BeyondGEO)

Saco Municipal Website (Woodard+Curran)

Sanford/Springvale Municipal Viewer (Woodard+Curran)

Southwest Harbor, MDI, College of the Atlantic GIS Lab, Zoning and Other Resources

Waterville Municipal Viewer. Parcels, footprints. (BeyondGEO) .

Westbrook General Purpose Municipal GIS (Woodard+Curran)

York General Purpose Municpal GIS (CDM)

AVCOG Tri-County Region Map

Moosehead Lake Region | Proposed Concept Plan

TRANSPORTATION

Department of Transportation

Maine DOT Travel Information road status maps. Actively maintained regional maps showing all areas on Maine roads with current or upcoming construction events. Nice mouse-over action on to display attribute information of event features.

http://65.82.158.251:84/default.asp?display=all&area=ME_statewide&date=&textOnly=False

CORRIDOR STUDY PLANNING

DOT I395 / Route 9 (Bangor) transportation study maps:

http://www.i395-rt9-study.com/

Androscoggin Road Classification Map (Androscoggin Transportation Resource Center)

Aroostook County I-95 Extension (VHB)

Map: http://www.vhb.com/aroostook/maps/preferred%20corridor.pdf

Study: http://www.vhb.com/aroostook/Corridormap.htm

GOOGLE maps

Maine Overview with the default mapping option.

MAPQUEST

Industry standard transportation/navigation web mapping.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&address=&city=&state=me&zipcode=&homesubmit.x=0&homesubmit.y=0

MICROSOFT MapPoint

Very fast and consistenly improving map server for roads and navigation. No background imagery or thematic layers.

Augusta direct link

Portland direct link

Bar Harbor – Acadia direct link

MAINE TURNPIKE MAP

Maine Turnpike Authority maps of I-95 and exits

http://www.maineturnpike.com/html/maps/turnpike_map.html

MAINE MILEAGE MAP

Straight line distances between prominent Maine points.

http://www.state.me.us/mdot/mainhtml/mileage.htm [LINK STALE 09/2003]

UTILITIES

MAINE Public Utilities Commission

Regulated Utilities Service Areas HiRes

ELECTRIC

Central Maine Power: Service Territory (demographics)

Bangor Hydro: Service Territory

ISO New England: Maine & New England real time electric power market electricity costs

NATURAL GAS

Maine Natural Gas: Approved Service Areas

WEATHER

NORTHEAST US WEATHER CONTENT

Links to large number of maps and images relevant to Maine + Northeastern US weather

REAL TIME and LOOPS

Intellicast Weather Loop: Dynamic current weather display. Includes links to many additional weather display variations

NOAA Experimental Weather Viewer Northeast Maine | Southwest Maine

Hourly US Weather Statistics

Snow Forecast

Northeast Ski Area Weathermaps (BestSkiWeather)

StormWarnings

http://stormdisplay.weatherbug.com/warnings.asp

Surf Info (wave heights) Interesting little viewer that provides wave information at 24-hour intervals out to 6 days.

Daily Weather Maps (Northeast US)

Large collection of (rather arcane) weather maps for Maine and the Northeast.

Main Page: http://www.ems.psu.edu/wx/automet2/surface/current/

Surface Conditions; Surface Temperature: Surface Wind

DROUGHT WATCH (USGS)

http://me.water.usgs.gov/droughtme.html

ICE STORM, 1998

Areas of damage | kml image

SNOW COVER

Maine Cooperative Snow Survey Maps: Static maps including information about snowpack, water content, etc. Produced by Maine Dept. of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management: MEMA; Dept. of Conservation: Maine Geological Survey; USGS: Water Resources Division. Static maps. Simple and very informative.

http://www.state.me.us/mema/weather/snow.htm#map1

SNOW DEPTH

NOAA National Weather Service snow statistics pages. Part of River Information network.

Main Snow information page.

Daily snow depth

24-hour snowfall

SNOW PACK MONITORING NETWORK (USGS)

http://me.water.usgs.gov/snownet.html

WIND POWER POTENTIAL

Part of the Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States.

http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/maps/chap3/3-22m.html

http://www.bergey.com/Maps/ME.Wind.htm

New England Wind Map

CLEARINGHOUSES

Some of the above and additional Maine Internet mapping links may be reached from the following clearinghouse sites:

Maine.GOV Map Directory

Maine Office of GIS

Internet Mapping

Thematic Maps | good sampling of interactive and publication-compiled map products from MEGIS. Some high quality stuff here. Check out the Maine Atlantic Salmon Habitat Atlas.

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