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  1. Title: MassGIS 2000 Massachusetts Senate Legislative Districts (1993)

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    Summary: The Massachusetts State Senate Legislative Districts (1993) datalayer reflects the State Senate district boundaries as defined by Chapter 274 of the Acts of 1993. The name of the statewide datalayer is SENATE93. Names of elected officials are up-to-date through March 1997.

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  2. Title: Senate Districts Massachusetts 2002

    • Polygon data
    • 2008
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    Summary: The Massachusetts Senate Legislative Districts (2002) datalayer reflects the state Senate district boundaries as defined by Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 57: Section 3. These 40 districts are those used in the Fall 2002 elections. Names of elected officials are up-to-date as of March 2008. This replaces the older Senate District 1993 layer.

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  3. Title: Boston, Massachusetts, proposed tide mills, 1814 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of those parts of Boston and the towns in its vicinity : with the waters and flats adjacent which are immediately or remotely connected with the contemplated design of erecting perpetual tide-mills, published by Benjamin Dearborn, 1814. It was originally issued with Massachusetts House Document no. 18 of June 1814 -- petitions to incorporate Boston and Roxbury Mill Corp. Scale [1:15,840]. Covers portions of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as selected roads (existing and proposed), propsosed tide mills and dams, drainage, canals, bridges, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  4. Title: Exhibit "B"

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Map detached from "Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the final report of Secretary Metcalf on the situation affecting the Japanese in the City of San Francisco, Cal.," issued as a U.S. Senate document (Serial Set 5070 S.doc.147), December 18, 1906. Shows location of "The Oriental School"; locations of "schools the Japanese pupils attended" prior to a Board of Education order of October 11, 1906, transferring them to the "Oriental School" in the burned area of the city; and residences of pupils, with the number of pupils given for each school and residence. Portion of title supplied by cataloger, derived from text on page 5 of the Senate document from which the map was extracted. Scale not given

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  5. Title: Juvenile Delinquents, Washington, D.C., 1935 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Spot map showing residences of juvenile delinquents in the District of Columbia as of July 1, 1935. Data furnished by Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia. It was published in 1936. Scale [ca. 1:19,200]. Base map 'Complete to June 13, 1933.' The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Maryland State Plane Coordinate System Meters NAD83 (Fipszone 1900). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows location of juvenile delinquents' residences by race and sex. Shows also features such as block numbers and alley dwelling areas, roads, railroads and stations, drainage, selected public buildings and points of interest, parks, cemeteries, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  6. Title: Plano de Yerba Buena, Alta California (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a site plan Plano de Yerba Buena, Alta California. For descr. see: Harlow, N. The Maps of San Francisco Bay ... 1850, no. 31.Pen-and-ink and watercolor on tracing paper.Oriented with north to right."No. 280, City of San Francisco, San Francisco, Exhibit no. 2 A.F., filed in office Aug. 20, 1853, Geo. Fisher." Shows drainage, settlements, etc. Relief shown pictorially. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  7. Title: Map of the state of Colorado

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Colorado showing land grants, forest reserves, railroads, land offices, etc. Notes: Relief shown by shading. Map detached from a United States Senate document in the United States congressional serial set (Serial Set 4220 S.doc.34): Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and accompanying draft of a bill providing for an appropriation to compensate the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians for the lands of their reservation in Colorado. Scale 1:760,320 1 in. = 12 miles

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  8. Title: Track chart of U. S. S. Yantic and Str Proteus, 1883, Arctic Sea

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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 64 x 34 cm. "Corrected to 1881." "S[enate] Ex. [Doc. No.] 100, 1[st Session], 48[th Congress]."

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  9. Title: Chart of the track of steamer Proteus in the attempt to reach Lady Franklin Bay, 1883

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    Summary: 1 map ; 38 x 30 cm. Relief shown by hachures. "S[enate] Ex. Doc. No. 100, l[st Session], 48[th Congress]."

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  10. Title: Chart exhibiting the discoveries of the second American-Grinnell-Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin

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    Summary: 1 map ; 44 x 37 cm Relief shown by hachures. "Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1, lst Session, 34th Congress."

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  11. Title: Chart exhibiting the discoveries of the American Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin

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    Summary: 1 map ; 25 x 16 cm "Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1, lst Session, 34th Congress."

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  12. Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts MHD Major Roads (December 2002)

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    Summary: This datalayer represents the 'major roads' in the Commonwealth from the Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD) Roads datalayer. Four classes of road are included: Limited Access Highways (such as Interstates with on- and off-ramps as the only means of access), Multi-lane Highways without limited access, Other Numbered Highways (such as state and Federal routes that are not included in the previous two categories), and Major Road-Collectors (non-numbered routes that connect numbered routes). These major roads are stored as one statewide coverage.

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  13. Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts MHD Routemarker Locations (December 2002)

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    Summary: This datalayer is a point coverage that may be used for plotting route shields that have the look of those on actual highway signs (i.e. red, white and blue Interstate; U.S. shields; boxes for State routes). The layer is intended to be used in conjuction with other Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD) datalayers. Please note that the locations of these points have been chosen to optimize display and do not represent actual roadside locations of route signs. To download and use Massachusetts highway route shields created by Jim Mossman, visit the MassGIS Web MHD page: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/majrdmhd.htm

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  14. Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Highway Department Roads (December 2002)

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    Summary: This datalayer represents linework from the USGS 1:100,000 Roads Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) with additional linework from the Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD). Many of the new roads were provided to MHD by municipalities on various town-scale maps. Also, MHD made edits to existing DLG features, in many cases using the MassGIS 1:5,000 digital orthophotography as a backdrop to better spatially position the linework. In addition, this layer includes extensive attribute information maintained by the MHD which has been linked to all features. The layer is up-to-date through 2001. By late 2003 the linework in this datalayer will be replaced with 1:5,000 Road Centerlines that were interpreted as part of the Digital Orthophoto development project. The MHD inventory and street attribute data will then be attached (conflated) to the larger-scale mapping.

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  15. Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts MHD Highway Exit Locations (December 2002)

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    Summary: This point datalayer represents major highway exit locations for the state of Massachusetts. It was produced by the Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD). Feature attributes include the exit number and the highway route number associated with each exit.

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  16. Title: Cambridge, MA (Bridges, 2010)

    • Polygon data
    • 2010
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    Summary: City of Cambridge, MA GIS basemap development project encompasses the land area of City of Cambridge with a 200 foot fringe surrounding the area and Charles River shoreline towards Boston. The basemap data was developed at 1" = 40' mapping scale using digital photogrammetric techniques. Planimetric features; both man-made and natural features like vegetation, rivers have been depicted. These features are important to all GIS/mapping applications and publication. A set of data layers such as Buildings, Roads, Rivers, Utility structures, 1 ft interval contours are developed and represented in the geodatabase. The features are labeled and coded in order to represent specific feature class for thematic representation and topology between the features is maintained for an accurate representation at the 1:40 mapping scale for both publication and analysis.

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  17. Title: Sewerage System, Melrose, Massachusetts, 1936 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the city of Melrose showing sewerage system. It was published by the Metropolitan District Commission in 1936. Scale [1:4,800]. 1 in. = 400 ft. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also sewerage system legend and names of green spaces, watersheds, and streets. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  18. Title: Public Transit Map, Massachusetts, ca. 2000 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Official public transit map :[Boston and vicinity, Massachusetts] : Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority / this map was prepared for the MBTA by the Central Transportation Planning Staff ; cartography by Kenneth A. Dumas, CTPS ; production by Transportation Creative Services. It was published by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ca. 2000. Scale 1:21,120. 1 in. = 1/3 of a mile. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also general information on bus, subway, rail, and boat transportation, service frequencies in minutes for bus routes and subway lines, inset of 'MBTA commuter rail system,' inset showing transportational services for Lynn, Salem, Beverly, and vicinity, 18 insets showing transportational services for locales at or near stations, advertisement, manuscript annotations and color illustrations. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  19. Title: Boston Metropolitan District, Massachusetts, parks, 1898 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the Metropolitan District of Boston : showing local public reservations, the holdings of the Metropolitan Park Commission and additions which have been proposed. It was originally published in the Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, Jan. 1899 to 'accompany report of Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects, Dec. 1st, 1898.' Scale 1:62,500. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows local parks and reservations over one half acre, Metropolitan reservations and parkways taken or provided for, and proposed additions to the Metropolitan system. Features include parks, roads, railroads, drainage, town boundaries and more. Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  20. Title: MBTA Subway Stations, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004

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    Summary: This point layer has all of the MBTA Subway Stations in Cambridge.

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