Important Mapping Links
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Mapping Resources:
NAME | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| You can find Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) on FEMA's website. You can even print out smaller copies of the FEMA maps, called FIRMette's. | |
State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection GIS Data | You can find free mapping data provided by the CTDEP. |
| A wealth of free information including historical maps, aerial photography and other free Geographic resources. | |
| ESRI's ArcGIS explorer is a free GIS application which allows you to view and print maps. | |
| Utilize NOAA's NOS Data Explorer to view NOS spatial data | |
| The USGS has been coordinating the effort of mapping the united states since 1879. They are the backbone of mapping in the U.S. | |
| The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is designed to study rainfall over the whole earth. | |
This is a link to the USFWS Region 5 GIS data resources page. | |
| The Center for Land Use Education and Research is funded by UCONN and a number of partners. | |
| This is a group of organizations that meets to discuss geographic issues affecting CT. | |
| This group is faced with coordinating geographic data efforts throughout the state. | |
| The Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials is our regional planning agency. This is a link to their map center | |
| National Geodetic Service Continuously Operating Reference Stations provide GPS Basestation corrections for post-processed GPS observations. | |
| United States Coast Guard Navigation Center is a great place to go for GPS information. | |
A professional society of licensed Land Surveyors in the state of CT. | |
| This is a great site to obtain historic USGS maps of New England and NY. Best of all its free. | |
| The LOC has an extensive map library much of which is scanned and available online. This is an amazing resource. | |
| The Northern Research Station publications much information about the management of the forests of new england. | |
| Great site containing all sorts of weather maps including severe weather warnings. Be sure to check out the GIS link where you can download KML/IKMZ files. | |
| The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) provides aerial photography data for free and provides Common Land Unit boundaries. | |
| This is a link to a list of CT spatial datasets at 1:24000 scale up to 1:500000. | |
| Online inventory of Connecticut's aerial photography surveys. | |
| Mail-A-Map is a private corporation providing maps of CT towns with advertising. This road map is popularly used in town. | |
| This application computes historic declination for a specific lattitude and longitude. | |
| BatchGeoCode.com is a free web utility that translates addresses to lattitude and longitude. Once complete your spreadsheet of addresses can be added to google earth or any GIS program. | |
| State of CT DOT Google Map markup showing traffic incidents and construction sites. | |
| A great site hosted by UCONN that provides demographic projections and statistics for CT. | |
| Maps and geospatial data for planning, management, education and research. | |
| nowCOAST is a map portal for realtime access to coastal data. | |
| CT DPUC initiated this program to develop a statewide broadband availability map. |