Description: The Town Halls layer shows the location of 355 primary executive offices, including town or city halls and annexes. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) GIS Program in cooperation with the Regional Planning Agencies and participating communities developed the data. Stored in the ArcSDE, the layer is named TOWNHALLS_PT_MEMA.
Copyright Text: Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) GIS Program in cooperation with Regional Planning Agencies
Description: These data show the locations of all extant lighthouses and lights along the coast of Massachusetts. While many of the lighthouses represented are active aids to navigation maintained by the United States Coast Guard, others are not and are maintained privately. All lighthouses are shown in their current positions and may have been moved from their original locations. The layer was produced by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM).
Copyright Text: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM).
Description: This point datalayer contains the location of community health centers (CHCs) in Massachusetts. The layer was produced by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MA DPH) Center for Environmental Health (CEH) GIS program. The source material was provided by Tina Ford Wright, Publications and Marketing Assistant, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, a.k.a. "the League," (http://www.massleague.org). The League defines a community health center as a non-profit community-based organization that offers comprehensive primary and preventive health care, including medical, social and/or mental health services, to anyone in need regardless of their medical status, ability to pay, culture or ethnicity.CHCs are grouped into Main and Satellite locations. Main CHCs may have one or more satellite locations (also known as access points). The MCHC_CODE item defines the affiliation between main CHCs and their satellites. CHCs vary by both the facility and/or building type in which they are located, scope of clinical services offered, and target patient population(s). The CEH GIS program used the MassGIS Hospitals, Schools, Colleges and Universities, and Prisons datalayers, and Internet Web sites in the case of homeless shelters, to derive the locations of health centers in these facilities. Health centers known to be administrative offices are attributed accordingly. With respect to clinical services, this GIS datalayer makes no distinction among CHCs. An exception is eye care and dental service providers that are indicated in the EYE and DENTAL fields. No information regarding target patient populations is explicitly defined, though assumptions may be based on health center name and/or location. In all cases, patients seeking care should contact the CHCs directly to verify availability of clinical services, hours, etc., rather than rely on the information contained in this GIS datalayer, as such information is subject to change.
Description: Acute care hospitals are those licensed under MGL Chapter 111, section 51 and which contain a majority of medical-surgical, pediatric, obstetric, and maternity beds, as defined by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). The features in this layer are based on database information provided to MassGIS from the DPH, Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS). The August 2009 update of this dataset limited the features to include only acute care hospitals (and removed other "specialty hospitals"; it replaces the layer formerly known as "Hospitals and Emergency Room Facilities." The August 2009 update kept the ER status data and also added attributes to track the status of trauma centers and teaching hospitals. OEMS defines these attributes as follows: - Emergency Rooms provide emergency service to those in need of immediate medical care in order to prevent loss of life or aggravation of physiological or psychological illness or injury. - Trauma Center: a hospital verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as a level 1, 2 or 3 adult trauma center, or a level 1 or 2 pediatric trauma center, as defined in the document ‘Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient: 1999’ by the Trauma Subcommittee of the American College of Surgeons and its successors; and meets applicable Department standards for designation, or a hospital that has applied for and is in the process of verification as specified in 130.851 and meets applicable Department standards for designation. - Teaching Status: a hospital defined according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) definition of a major teaching hospital: at least 25 full time equivalent medical school residents per one hundred inpatient beds.
Description: Critical facilities are the following: airport, bridge, child care, church, military, community center, municipal, fire station, hospital, library, marina, police, Red Cross, school, senior center, wastewater treatment plant, solid waste, utility, vet and water department.
Description: The April 2014 update was accomplished by viewing CCRTA on-line schedules and maps. http://www.capecodtransit.org/ These routes may not show all the possible routes that a bus may take, especially in the case of emergency traffic detours, but represents the general destinations served by the named bus line.These points were digitized by Cape Cod Commission GIS staff based upon observation of on-line maps from the transit agencies.
Copyright Text: Cape Cod Commission GIS Department 2014.
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority on-line map and schedule data, 2014.
On-line schedules of stops and stations for P+B and Peter Pan, 2014.
Description: The April 2014 update was accomplished by viewing CCRTA on-line schedules and maps. http://www.capecodtransit.org/ These routes may not show all the possible routes that a bus may take, especially in the case of emergency traffic detours, but represents the general destinations served by the named bus line.Streets were selected from a MassDOT roadway inventory file, or digitized along such street centerlines, and given attributes with the name of the bus route, or the name of the bus company that travels along the route. The routes are limited to year round fixed route bus service. Updated in October 2013 based upon on-line maps from the CCRTA.
Copyright Text: Cape Cod Commission GIS Department, 2014.
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, 2013.
Plymouth and Brockton and Peter Pan bus routes were selected based upon written schedules of stops between towns; no maps were available on-line, 2014.
Description: Initially this dataset was generated from a spreadsheet provided by the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce for an Arts Trail Guide. It was further modified for an economic development project for the Cape Cod Commission titled "Leveraging Cultural Assets for Economic Development: A Practical Guide for Municipal Investment in Arts & Culture on Cape Cod".
Copyright Text: Cape Cod Commission, GIS Department
Description: Initially this dataset was generated from a spreadsheet provided by the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce for an Arts Trail Guide. It was further modified for an economic development project for the Cape Cod Commission titled "Leveraging Cultural Assets for Economic Development: A Practical Guide for Municipal Investment in Arts & Culture on Cape Cod".
Copyright Text: Cape Cod Commission, GIS Department
Description: Between 2003 - 2010, these trails were created from multiple methods. Some were collected by GPS from various Americorps Members working with CCC, some were taken from digital layers of dirt roads, some were obtained from other agencies such as the Barnstable GIS Unit and The Cape Cod Compact of Conservation Trusts.
Copyright Text: Cape Cod Commission GIS Department, Americorps USA, Town of Barnstable GIS Unit, The Cape Cod Compact of Conservation Trusts, MassGIS, USGS.
Value: Paved bike shoulder (4-5 foot min./moderate volume/speed road, locally identified as a bike facility) Label: Paved bike shoulder (4-5 foot min./moderate volume/speed road, locally identified as a bike facility) Description: N/A Symbol:
Value: Sign-posted on-road bike route (with no other accommodation on the road surface) Label: Sign-posted on-road bike route (with no other accommodation on the road surface) Description: N/A Symbol:
Name: Barnstable County (Cape Cod) Dams (by Hazard Code
Display Field: DAMNAME
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPoint
Description: The ODS maintains a database that includes detailed information about each dam for operational purposes. Most of the location information was derived from historic data and has been ground-truthed against inspection and ownership reports that are maintained by the ODS. The locations of some dams have not been confirmed. These are pending verification and can be identified through the field 'LocStatus.’Dams regulated by the ODS in accordance with regulation CMR 302 10.00 are listed as ‘Office of Dam Safety’ in the field ‘RegAuth’.Please report any data errors or inconsistencies to the Office of Dam Safety (dam.safety@state.ma.us) or DCR-GIS (chandreyee.lahiri@state.ma.us)
Copyright Text: MA Office of Dam Safety, MA Dept. of Conservation & Recreation
Description: This dataset consists of 2-dimensional roof outlines ("roofprints") for all buildings larger than 150 square feet, as interpreted by a contractor (Rolta) for the whole area of the Commonwealth using DigitalGlobe ortho images obtained in 2011 and 2012, supplemented with LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data collected from 2002 to 2011 for the eastern half of the state. The roofprints as delivered were enhanced by MassGIS using Normalized Digital Surface Models (NDSMs) derived from the same LiDAR data. Other layers were used, including the Level 3 Parcels, to aid in review, especially where LiDAR data were not available. In ArcSDE the layer is named STRUCTURES_POLY.
Description: Bike routes are designated roadways for cyclists to travel on. Paths or trails are paved ways that prohibit motor vehicles, and they may be used for bicycles or pedestrian recreation. More information may be found here: http://www.bournerailtrail.org/vision-88