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July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
PennDOT
January 2009 PennDOT Data and Metadata update including: Pennsylvania Congressional boundaries, Pennsylvania county boundaries, Pennsylvania school districts, Pennsylvania senatorial boundaries, Pennsylvania state house district boundaries, Pennsylvania state roads, Pennsylvania state roads administrative, Pennsylvania traffic counts, Pennsylvania engineering district boundaries, Pennsylvania local roads, Pennsylvania municipality boundaries, Pennsylvania state boundary, Pennsylvania urban area boundary.
December 2008
November 2008
Department of Health
Pa Department of Health update 2008: Ambulatory Surgical Centers, Birth Centers, Community Mental Health Centers, Drug Alcohol Treatment Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Hospices, Hospitals, Intermediate Care Facilities, Long Term Care Facilities, Physical Speech Therapy Facilities, Portable Xray, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities, Rural Health Clinics.
October 2008
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Data Includes: NREL FEMA Transmission Lines, NREL United States(lower 48) Solar Potential, United States Biomass Resource Assessment, Wind Resource maps (50 m) Mid-Atlantic States, Wind Resource Potential - Mid-Atlantic states
September 2008
LiDAR - DCNR PAMAP Program
This dataset, produced by the PAMAP Program, consists of a raster digital elevation model with a horizontal ground resolution of 3.2 feet. The model was constructed from PAMAP LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) elevation points. PAMAP data are organized into blocks, which do not have gaps or overlaps, that represent 10,000 feet by 10,000 feet on the ground. The coordinate system for blocks in the northern half of the state is Pennsylvania State Plane North (datum:NAD83, units: feet); blocks in the southern half of the state are in Pennsylvania State Plane South. A block name is formed by concatenating the first four digits of the State Plane northing and easting defining the block's northwest corner, the State identifier "PA", and the State Plane zone designator "N" or "S" (e.g. 45001210PAS).
August 2008
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
point locations of Pennsylvania interstate highway exits and point locations of Pennsylvania turnpike toll plazas.
July 2008
Department of Environmental Protection
Summer 2008 update Air Emission Plant, Beneficial Land Uses, Captive Hazardous Waste Operation, Coal Mining Operations, Coal Pillar Location-Mining, Coal Pillar Location-Oil & Gas, Commercial Hazardous Waste Operations, Encroachment Locations, Encroachment Locations for Oil & Gas, Erosion & Sediment Control Facilities, Industrial Mineral Mining Operations, Land Recycling Cleanup Locations, Mine Drainage Treatment/Land Recycling Project Locations, Municipal Waste Operations, Oil & Gas Locations, Oil & Gas Water Pollution Control Facilities, Radiation Facilities, Residual Waste Operations, Storage Tank Locations, Streams Chapter 93 Designated Use, Streams Chapter 93 Existing Use, Water Pollution Control Facilities, Water Resources
June 2008
Heritage Conservancy
This is a county wide analysis of Berks County waterways to determine riparian buffer values given a 50 ft., 50% canopy coverage requirement.
May 2008
National Park Service
Layers include Appalachian National Scenic Trail - Centerline, Appalachian National Scenic Trail - Shelter Locations, Major Parks and Forests along the Appalachian Trail.
April 2008
Allegheny County
Layers available for download and in mapservices - layers include: Basins, Blocks, Building Footprints, Cemeteries, Contours, Councils of Governments, County Council Districts, Floodplain, Golf, Greenareas, Hydrology Areas, Hydrology Lines, Index, Land Use, Landcover, Landslide, Library, Municipal boundaries, Natural Heritage Inventory, National Wetlands Inventory, Parcels, Parking, Parks, Pools, Public Buildings, Railroads Lines, Retaining Walls, Soils, Spot Elevation, Street Centerlines, Street Edge of Pavement, Voting Districts, Watersheds, Zoning.
March 2008
Department of Environmental Protection
Spring 2008 update Air Emission Plant, Beneficial Land Uses, Captive Hazardous Waste Operation, Coal Mining Operations, Coal Pillar Location-Mining, Coal Pillar Location-Oil & Gas, Commercial Hazardous Waste Operations, Encroachment Locations, Encroachment Locations for Oil & Gas, Erosion & Sediment Control Facilities, Industrial Mineral Mining Operations, Land Recycling Cleanup Locations, Mine Drainage Treatment/Land Recycling Project Locations, Municipal Waste Operations, Oil & Gas Locations, Oil & Gas Water Pollution Control Facilities, Radiation Facilities, Residual Waste Operations, Storage Tank Locations, Streams Chapter 93 Designated Use, Streams Chapter 93 Existing Use, Water Pollution Control Facilities, Water Resources
February 2008
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
New layers include: Class A Wild Trout Streams, Fishing Special Regulation Lakes (Points), Fishing Special Regulation Lakes (Polygons), Fishing Special Regulation Streams, PFBC Database Lakes (Points), PFBC Database Lakes (Polygons), Stream Sections that Support Wild Trout Production, Trout Stocked Waters
January 2008
PennDOT January 2008
The following data layers have been updated by PennDOT as of January 2007: Pennsylvania Congressional boundaries, Pennsylvania county boundaries, Pennsylvania school districts, Pennsylvania senatorial boundaries, Pennsylvania state house district boundaries, Pennsylvania state roads, Pennsylvania state roads administrative, Pennsylvania traffic counts, Pennsylvania engineering district boundaries, Pennsylvania local roads, Pennsylvania municipality boundaries, Pennsylvania state boundary.
Department of Environmental Protection
January 2008 update Abandoned Mine Land Inventory Points, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory Polygons, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory Sites, Air Emission Plant, Beneficial Land Uses, Brownfields, Captive Hazardous Waste Operation, Coal Mining Operations, Coal Pillar Location-Mining, Coal Pillar Location-Oil & Gas, Commercial Hazardous Waste Operations, Encroachment Locations, Encroachment Locations for Oil & Gas, Erosion & Sediment Control Facilities, Industrial Mineral Mining Operations, Integrated List Attaining, Integrated List NonAttaining, Land Recycling Cleanup Locations, Mine Drainage Treatment/Land Recycling Project Locations, Municipal Waste Operations, Oil & Gas Locations, Oil & Gas Water Pollution Control Facilities, Radiation Facilities, Residual Waste Operations, Storage Tank Locations, Streams Chapter 93 Designated Use, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) -Lakes, Water Pollution Control Facilities, Water Resources
December 2007
Pennsylvania Game Commission 2007
2007 update District Boundaries, Land Management Groups, Office locations, Pennsylvania State Gamelands, Regions, Wildlife Management Units
Northampton County soils
This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.
November 2007
PAMAP Program - County Mosaics 2003 - 2006
County Mosaics MR.SID format - An orthoimage is remotely sensed image data that has been positionally corrected for camera lens distortion, vertical displacement and variations in aircraft altitude and orientation. Orthoimagery combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. The PAMAP 2005 natural color orthoimages were produced at 1-foot pixel resolution. Each orthoimage provides imagery for a 10,000 x 10,000 ft. block on the ground. The projected coordinate system is Pennsylvania State Plane South with a NAD83 datum. There is no image overlap been adjacent files. The orthoimage filenames were derived from the northwest corner of each ortho tile using the first four digits of the northing and easting coordinates referenced to the Pennsylvania State Plane coordinate system, followed by the State designator "PA," and the State Plane zone designator "S." This dataset consists of 10000 x 10000 ft. uncompressed natural color (24-bit) GeoTIFF files at a pixel resolution of 1 foot. The imagery was captured at a negative scale of 1:19200 for the purpose of producing orthophotos.
October 2007
DVRPCs 2005 Digital Orthoimagery
An orthoimage is remotely sensed image data in which displacement of features in the image caused by terrain relief and sensor orientation have been mathematically removed. Orthoimagery combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. This project consists of the creation of 3-band, 24 bit color digital orthophoto tiles for the 5-county, Pennsylvania portion DVRPC's region utilizing a Leica ADS40 digital imaging system. The tiles were delivered in both GeoTIFF and MrSID MG3 formats. A GeoTIFF is a TIFF file which has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file. The geographic data can then be used to position the image in the correct location and geometry within a geographic information system (GIS) display. MrSID (Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database) is a proprietary, wavelet-based, image compression file format (*.sid) developed and patented by LizardTech, Inc. A 20:1 compression ratio was used for the MrSIDs. The complete data set contains 1,540 full ortho tiles in Pennsylvania State Plane South coordinate system, NAD83. The individual tiles measure 5,055' x 8,745' at a 1.0' pixel size. There is no image overlap between adjacent tiles. Orthoimagery processed by BAE Systems.
September 2007
USDA - NAIP County Mosaics for Pennsylvania 2005
This data set contains imagery from the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP). NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S.. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availabilty of ortho imagery within a year of acquisition. NAIP provides two main products: 1 meter ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to a horizontal accuracy of within +/- 5 meters of reference digital ortho quarter quads (DOQQS) from the National Digital Ortho Program (NDOP); and, 2 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 10 meters of reference DOQQs. The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 meter buffer on all four sides. NAIP quarter quads are rectified to the UTM coordinate system NAD83 and cast into a single predetermined UTM zone. NAIP imagery can obtain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile. This file was generated by compressing NAIP digital quarter quadrangle image tiles either natural color positive or color infrared positive source imagery into a single mosaic. The mosaic may cover all or portions of an individual county. MrSid software compression, with mosaic option, was used to create the final product. Target values for the compression ratio are (15:1) and the maximum N-levels are used. All digital products and the underlying source images were produced through the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The primary purpose of the mosaicked digital ortho quarter quads is to support USDA Field Service Centers located in counties throughout the United States.
August 2007
Lancaster County Road Centerlines
This line coverage contains arc features representing all photogrammetrically interpreted street centerlines for Lancaster county 2007.
Pennsylvania Land Cover 2005
The 2005 land cover for Pennsylvania was created through a mix of interpretation of remotely sensed data and use of ancillary data sources. The date actually is a mid-point as the remotely sensed and ancillary data are representative of the time period 2003-2007. The coding is based on the Anderson Land Use/Land Cover system, where the more descriptive detail in the category is reflected by a higher code value. Further the coding is hierarchial so that each group can be related to other codes within a general category. For example, in the Anderson system the general classification of forest is a 4, a deciduous forest is 41, and so on. For a description of the Anderson system see; http://landcover.usgs.gov/pdf/anderson.pdf
July 2007
PAMAP Program
Armstrong, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Butler,
Elk, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango Counties. An orthoimage is remotely sensed image data that has been positionally corrected for camera lens distortion, vertical displacement and variations in aircraft altitude and orientation. Orthoimagery combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. The PAMAP 2006 natural color orthoimages were produced at 1-foot pixel resolution. Each orthoimage provides imagery for a 10,000 x 10,000 ft. block on the ground. The projected coordinate system is Pennsylvania State Plane South with a NAD83 datum. There is no image overlap between adjacent files. The orthoimage filenames were derived from the northwest corner of each ortho tile using the first four digits of the northing and easting coordinates referenced to the Pennsylvania State Plane coordinate system, followed by the State designator "PA," and the State Plane zone designator "S." This dataset consists of 10000 x 10000 ft. uncompressed natural color (24-bit) GeoTIFF files at a pixel resolution of 1 foot. The imagery was captured at a negative scale of 1:19200 for the purpose of producing orthophotos.
June 2007
PAMAP Program
Blair and Cambria counties. An orthoimage is remotely sensed image data that has been positionally corrected for camera lens distortion, vertical displacement and variations in aircraft altitude and orientation. Orthoimagery combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. The PAMAP 2006 natural color orthoimages were produced at 1-foot pixel resolution. Each orthoimage provides imagery for a 10,000 x 10,000 ft. block on the ground. The projected coordinate system is Pennsylvania State Plane South with a NAD83 datum. There is no image overlap between adjacent files. The orthoimage filenames were derived from the northwest corner of each ortho tile using the first four digits of the northing and easting coordinates referenced to the Pennsylvania State Plane coordinate system, followed by the State designator "PA," and the State Plane zone designator "S." This dataset consists of 10000 x 10000 ft. uncompressed natural color (24-bit) GeoTIFF files at a pixel resolution of 1 foot. The imagery was captured at a negative scale of 1:19200 for the purpose of producing orthophotos.
May 2007
PAMAP Program
Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Washington, Westmoreland
counties. An orthoimage is remotely sensed image data that has been positionally corrected for camera lens distortion, vertical displacement and variations in aircraft altitude and orientation. Orthoimagery combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. The PAMAP 2006 natural color orthoimages were produced at 1-foot pixel resolution. Each orthoimage provides imagery for a 10,000 x 10,000 ft. block on the ground. The projected coordinate system is Pennsylvania State Plane South with a NAD83 datum. There is no image overlap between adjacent files. The orthoimage filenames were derived from the northwest corner of each ortho tile using the first four digits of the northing and easting coordinates referenced to the Pennsylvania State Plane coordinate system, followed by the State designator "PA," and the State Plane zone designator "S." This dataset consists of 10000 x 10000 ft. uncompressed natural color (24-bit) GeoTIFF files at a pixel resolution of 1 foot. The imagery was captured at a negative scale of 1:19200 for the purpose of producing orthophotos.
April 2007
March 2007
Feburary 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
City of Philadelphia
Layers include: Philadelphia curb edges, Philadelphia Police Districts, Philadelphia street centerlines, Police Division Boundaries
October 2006
September 2006
PAMAP Program
Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming,
McKean, Pike, Potter, Snyder, Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna,
Tioga, Union, Warren counties. An orthoimage is remotely sensed image data that has been positionally corrected for camera lens distortion, vertical displacement and variations in aircraft altitude and orientation. Orthoimagery combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. The PAMAP 2005 natural color orthoimages were produced at 1-foot pixel resolution. Each orthoimage provides imagery for a 10,000 x 10,000 ft. block on the ground. The projected coordinate system is Pennsylvania State Plane North with a NAD83 datum. There is no image overlap been adjacent files. The orthoimage filenames were derived from the northwest corner of each ortho tile using the first four digits of the northing and easting coordinates referenced to the Pennsylvania State Plane coordinate system, followed by the State designator "PA," and the State Plane zone designator "N." This dataset consists of 10000 x 10000 ft. uncompressed natural color (24-bit) GeoTIFF files at a pixel resolution of 1 foot. The imagery was captured at a negative scale of 1:19200 for the purpose of producing orthophotos.
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) - quarter-quadrangle index Index of USGS quarter-quadrangles (3.75 minute) covering Pennsylvania used for 2004 National Agricultural Imagery program (NAIP) images. The polygons are attributed with information pertaining to USGS quadrangle names and quarter-quad designations. The polygons are also attributed with the initial identifying portion of the 2004 NAIP image file names.
Feburary 2006
January 2006