Service Description: This datalayer was created for the purposes of providing an up-to-date polygon version of the town boundaries for the 351 communites of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The legislative intent for some boundaries could not be mapped. Boundaries where that is true are identified in the attribute information. This layer contains single-part polygons, in which islands or sections of municipalities separated by water are each represented by its own feature.
Service ItemId: 2b52f6ec6f6d4cf48f1bcaafa5f7ed90
Has Versioned Data: false
Max Record Count: 2000
Supported query Formats: JSON
Supports applyEdits with GlobalIds: False
Supports Shared Templates: True
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Description: The political boundary datalayer is a polygon representation of town boundaries created from arcs developed from survey coordinates extracted from the 68-volume Harbor and Lands Commission Town Boundary Atlas for the 351 communities (cities and towns) in Massachusetts. The Atlas was published in the early 1900's and is maintained by the Survey Section of Massachusetts Highway Department. For communities with a coastal boundary, MassGIS has collaborated with Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Department of Environmental Protection to complete a 1:12000 scale coastline. The boundary for the coastline was defined as being the upland side of tidal flats and rocky inter-tidal zones. Note that the 351 communities are the official municipal names, not including "villages" or other sections of towns.
Massachusetts Highway Survey Section, MassGIS
Spatial Reference: 4326 (4326)
Initial Extent:
XMin: -71.2350317167572
YMin: 42.3057314513154
XMax: -70.8462419435824
YMax: 42.6146259438771
Spatial Reference: 4326 (4326)
Full Extent:
XMin: -71.0755975498579
YMin: 42.3884662994285
XMax: -71.0282275438154
YMax: 42.4243936883922
Spatial Reference: 4326 (4326)
Units: esriDecimalDegrees
Child Resources:
Info
SharedTemplates
Supported Operations:
Query
ConvertFormat
Get Estimates