Atlas News

02.02.2010

A new layer has been added to the interactive map, showing crops grown in 2008 (US Department of Agriculture). "Crops 2008" shows categorized land-cover data produced using satellite imagery for the purpose of providing supplemental acreage estimates for the state's major commodities. The imagery was collected between the dates of April 1, 2008 and September 30, 2008. This layer can be found in the following folder: ENVIRONMENT/BIOLOGY > Agriculture & Land Cover. If you are a user of these data, you may wish to download this layer.

01.05.2010

     The layer named "Institutional Control Sites," provided by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Office of Land Quality, has been updated. There are now 393 sites contained in the layer. This layer can be found in the following folder: ENVIRONMENT/BIOLOGY > Environment. If you are a user of these data, you may wish to re-download this layer.

    The layer showing "Surveyor Tie Cards" has been updated with new data for Bartholomew County. A "tie card" is a written description of the location of a corner of a Section within the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). The layer shows points where scanned (PDF) images of tie cards are available for viewing. Tie cards are presently available for only the following counties: Bartholomew, Jennings, Newton. In order to access the scanned images of the tie cards, make the Tie Cards layer active, click the "Identify" tool, and click on a point of interest. When the "Query/Selection Results" window appears, click on the hyperlink in the field titled "IGS_Link." A new window showing the scanned image will appear.

     The four layers that provide county-based framework data (including address points, street centerlines, land parcels, and governmental boundaries) have been updated. The layers were compiled from data maintained by various county agencies in Indiana, as part of the IndianaMap Data Sharing Initiative between Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC), Indiana Office of Technology (IOT), Indiana Geographic Information Office (GIO), Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS), Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) and participating Indiana counties. The layers named "Address Points (IDHS)" and "Street Centerlines (IDHS)" can be found in the following folder: INFRASTRUCTURE > Roads. The layers named "Land Parcels (IDHS)" and "Government Boundaries (IDHS)" can be found in the following folder: DEMOGRAPHICS > Political & Other Boundaries.