[Talk-us-massachusetts] aerial comparisons

[Greg Troxel]

hobbit at techno-fandom.org writes:

> When a given recreational area seems composed of a confused pile of mixed-up
> parcels, with crazy little slots in and out of it, what's a good way to
> determine the actual official boundaries?  Do towns and/or mass.gov have
> good records of that sort of thing, preferably online?  Things like DCR
> maps are of dubious help.

The parcel database has ownership information.  You can go into
MassMapper and query.  It has the parcel data preloaded as a layer.
But, municipal ownership and being in that conservation area are not
quite the same thing, and it usually requires thought/research.

  https://maps.massgis.digital.mass.gov/MassMapper/MassMapper.html

Also there is

  https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-protected-and-recreational-openspace

(If you are not already set up with and familiar with qgis, put that on
your list of things to learn.  I wish I had done it earlier.)

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