Description: Status layer to indicate whether MHC staff has completed digitizing the entire inventory for a specific town. The COMPLETE field stores a binary “y” or blank field to indicate the MHC municipal status. MassGIS stores and distributes this polygon feature class as MHCTOWNS_POLY. MassGIS projected the data to the NAD1983 Mass. State Plane Meters Mainland coordinate system.Provided to MassGIS on November 3, 2022.
Description: This data set provides four feature classes. The base feature class is called BlockGroups_bg and isn't generalized. The weighted centroids feature class is called BlockGroups_bg_cent. The centroids are weighted by the U.S. Block Centroids population distribution. Use the weighted centroids in report aggregation and spatial overlay operations. The BlockGroups_bg and BlockGroups_bg_cent feature classes contain all the attributes. There are two generalized boundaries feature classes and called: BlockGroups_bg_gen2, and BlockGroups_bg_gen3. Use the generalized boundaries when creating study areas.
Description: In MACRIS the points are symbolized to indicate the most common historic designation types: 1) National Register of Historic Places, 2) local historic district, 3) both National Register and local historic district, 4) Preservation Restriction, and 5) inventoried but not designated with one of the previous designations. Less common designations are not symbolized in MACRIS, but are included in the Designations attribute field. MassGIS stores a copy of the point feature class as MHCINV_PT. MassGIS projected the data to the NAD1983 Mass. State Plane Meters Mainland coordinate system.Provided to MassGIS on November 3, 2022.Information from the MACRIS database and related records on file at the MHC, including the Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth, National Register of Historic Places nomination forms, local historic district study reports, local landmark reports, and other materials.
Description: In MACRIS the points are symbolized to indicate the most common historic designation types: 1) National Register of Historic Places, 2) local historic district, 3) both National Register and local historic district, 4) Preservation Restriction, and 5) inventoried but not designated with one of the previous designations. Less common designations are not symbolized in MACRIS, but are included in the Designations attribute field. MassGIS stores a copy of the point feature class as MHCINV_PT. MassGIS projected the data to the NAD1983 Mass. State Plane Meters Mainland coordinate system.Provided to MassGIS on November 3, 2022.Information from the MACRIS database and related records on file at the MHC, including the Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth, National Register of Historic Places nomination forms, local historic district study reports, local landmark reports, and other materials.
Description: In MACRIS the points are symbolized to indicate the most common historic designation types: 1) National Register of Historic Places, 2) local historic district, 3) both National Register and local historic district, 4) Preservation Restriction, and 5) inventoried but not designated with one of the previous designations. Less common designations are not symbolized in MACRIS, but are included in the Designations attribute field. MassGIS stores a copy of the point feature class as MHCINV_PT. MassGIS projected the data to the NAD1983 Mass. State Plane Meters Mainland coordinate system.Provided to MassGIS on November 3, 2022.Information from the MACRIS database and related records on file at the MHC, including the Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth, National Register of Historic Places nomination forms, local historic district study reports, local landmark reports, and other materials.
Description: Extent The ParkServe database maintains an inventory of parks for every urban area in the U.S., including Puerto Rico. This includes all incorporated and Census-designated places that lie within any of the country’s 3,000+ census-designated urban areas. This totals to over 15,000 cities, towns, or villages included in the database, which represents about 75% of the U.S. population. Parks Database Trust for Public land compiled the ParkServe database from 2016 to 2018. TPL contacted each city or town to request parks data, as well as searched for GIS parks data resources on municipal and regional open data websites. If no GIS data were available, we delineated park boundaries based on satellite imagery, and confirmed public access via city park websites or signage viewable through Google Street View. Cities and towns were given the opportunity to confirm our delineated boundaries. Today, there are about 145,000 parks in the ParkServe database. Parks data for the 100 largest cities are updated annually as part of the ParkScore Index, and parks data for all other places are updated on a monthly basis following TPL verification of public submissions via the ParkReviewer tool. How do we define a park? In order to accurately represent park access across large communities, open public access is the key criteria for inclusion in our database. We include a wide variety of parks, trails, and open space, so long as there is no barrier to entry. Examples of parks we include: Publicly-owned local, state, and national parks, trails, and open space School with a joint-use agreement with the local government. Privately-owned parks that are managed for full public use Examples of parks we don’t include: Parks in gated communities Private golf courses Private cemeteries School parks/playgrounds without active joint-use agreements Zoos, museums, professional sports stadiums For field descriptions, see https://www.tpl.org/park-data-downloads