Data Sales

November 23, 2010

The City of Cambridge sells digital Geographic Information System (GIS) data of the City upon request. Below is information on how to obtain the data, pricing, and file formats available.

City of Cambridge GIS Data Sales

To place an order for digital data

1. Read the following information regarding the GIS data

2. Download the PDF (at the bottom of this page) and fill out the Data Request

3. Sign and return the form to:

GIS DATA SALES

831 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE

CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139

or  email request to: CambridgeGIS_at_cambridgema.gov.  We have scrambled our e-mail address a bit to try to win the battle on SPAM! Please replace the '_at_' with the character '@' and this e-mail will make it to our group. Thanks!

4. Upon Receipt of your check made payable to the 'City of Cambridge', the data will be sent to the address specified on the data release form.

Planimetric and Topographic Information:

  • Planimetric and topographic landbase data was prepared through the use of photogrammetric methods from aerial photography dated April 17, 2003. This information meets ASPRS Standards for 1”=100’ Class 1 Map accuracy.
  • All data has been projected to the Stateplane grid coordinate system, Zone 4151, Datum NAD83 and Units feet.
  • Coordinate Datum: NAD-83 Massachusetts Coordinate System, Mainland Zone
  • Vertical Reference Datum: NAVD-88

Standard Cambridge Data CD Includes:

  • Base map layers (roads, buildings, hydro, and rail line)
  • Political boundaries (city boundary, zip codes, neighborhoods)
  • Tax Parcels (parcels, taxing districts, text, and limited attributes)
  • Planning layers (zoning, open space, historical districts, census data)
  • Environmental layers (wetlands, watershed data)
  • Municipal layers (schools, points of interest, election districts)
  • Topography (2 foot contours, spot elevations, DTM)
  • Transportation layers (centerlines, intersections, major roads)       
  • Addressing data (address points, address tables)                                                                                                        

Ortho CD Includes:

  • 3 inch citywide MrSID orthophoto. Flight date: April 14, 2010.

Digital orthophotos are a digitally enhanced mosaic of the aerial photographs used for creating the planimetric and topographic landbase layers. These images are available in a citywide seamless MrSID format.

Special Requests:

  • Infrastructure Data available by special request. Water Distribution System, Sanitary Sewer, & Stormwater data is available. Please call 617-349-6015 for more information.

Assessing CAMA database. All requests for a complete or partial data set need to be requested to the Cambridge Assessors office. Please contact 617-349-4343.

Ordering and Pricing:

DATA FORMATS:

ArcView Shapefile, or ESRI File Geodatbase. Images are available in MrSID format.

PRICING:

VECTOR DATA: $75.00. All vector data can fit on 1 CD.

IMAGE DATA: $75.00. Orthophoto of the City is at 3 inch resolution (each pixel is approximately 3 inch square) Seamless image fits on 1 CD.

To purchase data from the City, please fill out and return the following form:

Cambridge GIS Data Release Form (PDF)