ArcGIS REST Services Directory
JSON

TownSurveyGenCoast_gdb (FeatureServer)

View In:   Map Viewer

Service Description: Municipal boundaries for the 351 cities and towns of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, based on survey-derived coordinates. The coastline has been generalized for faster display. Hosted as a feature layer with line and polygon feature classes at ArcGIS Online by MassGIS.

Service ItemId: 33061b8aef6848e1aeb9a4c059d62ed9

Has Versioned Data: false

Max Record Count: 2000

Supported query Formats: JSON

Supports applyEdits with GlobalIds: True

Supports Shared Templates: True

All Layers and Tables

Layers:

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.

This datalayer was created for the purposes of providing an up-to-date polygon version of the town boundaries for the 351 cities and towns 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 multi-part polygons, one for each municipality. The coastline on this layer has been generalized for small-scale cartography and faster display in web map services.

See the layer metadata for details.


Copyright Text:

Spatial Reference: 102100 (3857)

Initial Extent:
Full Extent:
Units: esriMeters

Child Resources:   Replicas   Info   SharedTemplates

Supported Operations:   Query   ConvertFormat   Get Estimates   Create Replica   Synchronize Replica   Unregister Replica