GeoStor Maintenance Complete and Data Updates

Maintenance:

 GeoStor Maintenance scheduled from 1pm today through 8am July 23rd is complete.

Along with the back-end upgrades to GeoStor, there were many layers added or updated.  These include:
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New Data Loaded:

School Board Zones-  http://bit.ly/MxbSlH
-  This dataset contains polygons and attributes which represent the School District Board Zones for the Public School Districts in the State of Arkansas. It includes the Local education Authority (LEA) identification number, name of the District and the Zone Number assigned in the redistricting process. The compilation of this data is an effort of the Secretary of State to aid in election administration and future redistricting.

Telephone Exchange Boundaries-  http://bit.ly/NGZW02
-  This data provides Telephone Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier territory information for the State of Arkansas. The database provides location information for use in local and regional cartographic and spatial analysis applications. The data set was compiled from the legal descriptions in the rate documents on file with the Public Service Commission.
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Data Updated:

Adopted Justice of the Peace-  http://bit.ly/LD11sF


Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Boundaries- http://bit.ly/NnjQS1

Arkansas Highway and Transportation Office PLSS Sections- http://bit.ly/NnjV84


County Assessor's Office Parcels -  http://bit.ly/PrnNEg
25 Counties Updated:  Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Chicot, Clark, Clay, Columbia, Conway, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner, Hot Spring, Jackson, Jefferson, Little River, Logan, Madison, Mississippi, Montgomery, Pulaski, Saline, Stone, Van Buren, and Washington

5 New Counties:  Ashley, Howard, Johnson, Perry, and Polk

This puts the statewide parcel count posted on GeoStor at over 1 million records covering portions of 38 counties!

Thanks to the AR Secretary of State's Office, the AR Public Service Commission, the AR Game and Fish Commission, the AR Highway and Transportation Department, and your local County Assessor's Office for providing these excellent sources of information!

GeoStor Scheduled Maintenance

GeoStor maintenance this week/weekend:

Friday, July 20, 2012 @ 1:00pm through Monday, July 23, 2012 @ 8:00am

During this scheduled maintenance time, GeoStor's download capability (clip, zip, and ship) may be offline.  GeoStor's FTP and Feature Services should remain online.

Thanks for your patience.

AGIO

Fire District Data Updated on GeoStor

The Fire District polygon layer has been updated on GeoStor.

To download the file from GeoStor:  http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=fire+district+polygon

Thanks to the UALR Institute for Economic Advancement GIS Applications Laboratory for the data updates!

GeoStor Back Online

GeoStor's "Clip, Zip, and Ship" functionality is back online.  If you are still experiencing any download issues, please clear your browser's cache and try the download again.

Sorry for any inconvenience that this interruption may have caused.

GeoStor Service Interuption

The Arkansas Geographic Information Office is experiencing a service interruption with the GeoStor downloads.  The remainder of the system is operating normally.

Users who need access to data immediately have a couple of options:

1)  access the data by feature or image services  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_h9UFFC88

2)  access data on the FTP site http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=ftp

We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your patience as we work restore this service.

Cleburne County Address Points Published

We are proud to announce yet another County Address Point update available on GeoStor.
This is a first time publication for Cleburne County, Arkansas.

It's a watershed moment for the address point mapping program.  Adding this county puts our state at the half way mark now covering 37 of the 75 counties.  Also of significance the record count of physical address points pushes past the one million mark with a total of 1,005,624 records.

http://www.gis.arkansas.gov/Programs/acf_stat.html
Address Point File by County:  http://bit.ly/Address2
Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/
Filename (STRUC_SITUS_ADDRESS_PT_point)

Thanks to Cleburne County for providing high quality data for use by the broader community.  We kind of think our counties rock!

Justice of Peace Districts Available on GeoStor

The 2011 Adopted Justice of Peace Districts are now available on GeoStor.

Link to access Justice of Peace Districts
http://bit.ly/HA3nYD

For a brief history of this data visit this article published by the Arkansas Geographic Information Office.