Transcription
List of Federal ArcGIS Serversand State ArcGIS Serversand County ArcGIS Serversand City ArcGIS ServersAny Dead Links Are Fixed or Flagged Each WeekBy Joseph Elfelt, https://mappingsupport.comTwitter: @mappingsupportAugust 17, 2022See a mistake? Have relevant information to share? Please send me an email viathis contact page: act.htmlTable of contents1.READ ME June 2, 2021. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.Business user? Donate to help fund this work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.Federal GIS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.State, Regional, County and City GIS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205.Washington D.C. Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2336.Native American Tribes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2337.U.S. Territories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2338.Multi-state planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2349.Miscellaneous Regional Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23410.USA Miscellaneous Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23511.World Miscellaneous Servers With Some USA Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23612.COVID-19 GIS layers covering the USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23713.Environmental groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23814.Canada GIS servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238This report promotes public access to government data by publishing federal ArcGIS serveraddresses. State, county and city ArcGIS server addresses are included in this report with thehope that those teaching and learning GIS will use those local resources to help them learn aboutand explore geospatial data for their own backyard. As explained below, most of these serveraddresses were found with simple Google searches.This report is online as follows:pdf filehttps://mappingsupport.com/p/surf xt filehttps://mappingsupport.com/p/surf csv filehttps://mappingsupport.com/p/surf gis/list-federal-state-county-city-GIS-servers.csv This is now a master csv file and contains all the active ArcGIS serveraddresses that are in the PDF file. See next page for details.
Usually the PDF and TXT files are updated on Wednesday. But sometimes that will not get doneuntil a day or two later. The csv file is automatically produced each Wednesday night. There area few comment lines at the top of the csv file and one of them gives the date of the correspondingPDF file.Here is the field description for the master csv file. The first row has the column headings yousee erArcGIS-urlhttpsShow-contentsSSLOpenCommentline counter0 - comment, 1 - federal, 2 - state/county/city, 3 - everything elsestate namecounty nametown nameFIPS code for county and stateentity name for type 1 and type 3 servers.Y for https, N for httpY if table of contents is displayed, otherwise NOK if SSL in working order, X if browser complains, blank for httpY if no credentials required, otherwise Nany other notes in the PDF file for this serverMarch 15, 2022 news: Thanks to great work by Ben Millard this server list can now beaccessed directly in the form of a website at https://servers.cartobin.com/. I understand Benhas some ideas for additional features so I am thinking this is version 1 with more to come.@ArcGIS server administrators: Thank you to those who have converted from http to https.However, too many of you have not yet made this conversion. Do you know that SSL certificatesfrom https://letsencrypt.org/ cost nothing? And there is a second group of you that hasattempted to convert to https but either have not done so correctly or are using SSL certificatesthat the browsers do not trust or that have expired. Those servers are flagged in this report ashaving an SSL problem. If you would please get new SSL certificates from LetsEncrypt, thenthis problem will go away. To test your https implementation, try browsing to your“rest/services” address and see if an error message appears. Both Chrome and Firefox browsersrequire TLS 1.2 protocol. Way too many of you are still using TLS 1.1.Why am I doing this? I am a software developer in the field of online/offline web maps. Oneof my projects is GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the free open-sourceLeaflet map API (Application Program Interface). One of the features of GISsurfer is the abilityto display *any* public-facing (i.e. no login required) ArcGIS MapServer, ImageServer andFeatureServer data.Personally, I am most interested in GIS data related to disasters (especially wildland fire) andrecreation (especially trails). A good place to see examples of GISsurfer disaster and recreationmaps is to open GISsurfer and then click “Menu”. The choices include “Recreation maps” and“Fire and weather maps”.2
If you would like to give GISsurfer a try:1.Open GISsurfer: https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php2.Zoom in on a state, county or city where you would like to see some GIS data.3.Click the basemap button and change the basemap to “USA basemap”.4.Click the basemap button again and look under the “Overlay” heading (mobileusers might need to scroll down). Select “Add GIS overlays”.5.Use this ArcGIS server list to copy the address for an ArcGIS server for that state,county or city and then paste that address into the GISsurfer dialog box.6.Click “Send request to GIS server”. After a few seconds, the sidebar will openand display the top of the table of contents for that GIS server.7.Click an entry in the table of contents to go down to the next level.8.An entry with a checkbox can be displayed on the map as an overlay. Click thatentry to add that GIS data to the map as an overlay.9.Click “Menu” “Link to this map”. The link that is displayed will replicatethe map on your screen.For more information please visit the GISsurfer homepage. Click the green “Menu” button andthen select “Help”. Scroll down just a bit and start by reading the “Overview” section.Automated weekly scan: Once a week my code automatically tests each link in this report.Each link is tested at least 3 times spread over a several hours. Bad links will promptly be fixedor flagged. If the address is not working at all then it will be rendered unclickable and marked“dead link 1”. In many cases that government entity still has an ArcGIS server but has simplychanged the address and/or configured their server for internal use only. Every few months I willcheck the jurisdictions that are flagged “dead link 1”. In many cases I will be able to find a newArcGIS server address to add to this list. If I cannot find a new server address then that entry willbe marked “dead link 2”. From time to time those entries will be deleted from the list.As part of the weekly scan each GIS server link will also be tested to detect (1) if directoryservices (i.e. table of contents) has been disabled and (2) whether login credentials are required.This automated weekly code will also test each http link to see if there is now a https version.This report will be updated with any such new information. Usually an updated list will beposted each Wednesday morning.Tip: Sometimes a link that is flagged as ‘dead’ is only down temporarily. If you think such alink might have data you would like to see, you can always replace the leading underlinecharacter with the letter “h” and give the link a try.Tip: If you are looking for a certain type of data, try a Google advanced search. For example, ifyou are looking for trail data then search on:trails site:Replace the underline with the address for an ArcGIS server and enter that search into a browserbar.See any mistakes? Some of the servers in this list have multiple jurisdictions and from oneentry to the next they jump between states/counties/cities. No doubt I became mesmerized a time3
or two by the repetition involved and entered some server addresses under the wrong state. Or Imay have entered a city server’s address in the section for county servers or vice versa. I cannotfix it unless someone tells me I goofed.Why are the multiple entries for some counties/cities? The focus of this list is to present linksthat go directly to data for a state agency or county or city/town/village. Some of the servers onthis list have data for multiple jurisdictions. It would have been nice if the server administratorhad made a folder for each jurisdiction and then put all the data for that jurisdiction into thatfolder. Unfortunately, sometimes that did not happen.Data ‘Portals’: Yes, this report does include some addresses for federal and state data portals.No, publishing portal addresses is not the primary purpose of this report.Want to help #1? If you know of a federal, state, regional, county or city ArcGIS server that isnot already listed below and that includes at least some data where no login credentials arerequired, please send me an email via the contact link posted above. Note that I am only lookingfor the ‘top’ endpoint for ArcGIS servers. Those links all end in “rest/services”. I wouldparticularly like to get addresses for more ArcGIS servers operated by regional planning bodies.Want to help #2? Each state has a section for links to county ArcGIS servers and then a sectionfor links to city ArcGIS servers. Find your state and see if it looks like I listed any city servers inthe county section or vice versa.Want to help #3? Some counties and cities have agreed to cooperate and have data layers forboth jurisdictions on a single server. When that happens I want to show both the city name andcounty name in this list along with a pointer to whichever one is hosting the combined data. Ifyou know of any such ArcGIS servers, please send me an email via my contact page. Go tohttps://mappingsupport.com, click the big green “Menu” button and select “About and contact”.Want to help #4? See the section “USA Miscellaneous Servers” near the start of the list. If youcan identify any of those links as primarily having data for one state or one county or one city,please let me know and I will move that server link to the appropriate location.Caution: Some of the GIS data on these servers will be draft and/or temporary. Also the serveradministrators sometimes renumber the data layers with little to no warning. This will break anymaps that are based on the former layer numbers. Another common problem is the use ofgibberish names to identify data folders/layers/attributes combined with the lack of metadata totranslate that gibberish into something useful. And when you want to ask a question about thedata usually the GIS server metadata lacks any contact information.Anyone can easily search for ArcGIS servers. Assume you want to know if St. Louis CountyMinnesota (County seat is Duluth) has a public-facing ArcGIS server. First, find the countywebsite. Note that the website address includes “stlouiscountymn”. Second, do a Google searchon: stlouiscountymn “rest/services”. Include the quotes in your search. If this county has a GISserver then you will likely see search hits to various places within the table of contents. Openany table of contents page and then in the upper left corner click on “Home”. You now will see4
the ‘top’ of the table of contents for this ArcGIS server and the browser address bar will displayan address that ends in “/rest/services”.Of course at the county and city level you could simply call or email the GIS staff and ask. Hereis one way to phrase the question: “Do you have a public-facing ArcGIS server and, if so, whatis the rest service endpoint?”Sometimes you might see two server addresses that appear identical except one of them says“arcgis” and the other says “ArcGIS”. Technically these are different internet addresses andthese two servers may or may not contain the same information.Tip: If you are interested in a topic instead of a state/county/city then try a Google search likethis example: "climate change" "rest/services". Include keywords for your topic and alwaysinclude rest/services in quotes. Many of the hits that are returned will point you to ArcGISlayers.Data.gov and GeoPlatform: These two websites can also help you find federal GIS servers.Enter your search criteria and then in the left sidebar find the “Format” section and select “ESRIRest”. The hits will be for ArcGIS layers. In other words, these two sites index the ‘bottom’ ofa GIS server table of contents. By contrast, this PDF report shows you the ‘top’ of the table ofcontents for GIS servers. One advantage of these two sites is that you may find metadata that isnot present when you look at the GIS server page for the same data. Caution: Many (most?) ofthe GIS layers on the various federal servers have not been submitted by the serveradministrators for inclusion on data.gov or geoplatform.Geodatadownloader: Do you want to download ArcGIS data? Here is a tool to help you. Thelink points to the GitHub ‘Read me’ file. Here is a related thread on Reddit.GeoSeer is a search engine for finding data served through WMS, WFS, WCS, and WMTSservices. It allows users to easily find publicly available datasets which they can then use in theirown projects using normal GIS tools. At the time of writing GeoSeer has over 1.2 million distinctspatial layers in its index from over 160,000 services. This is a worldwide search tool. Note:GeoSeer does not index ArcGIS ESRI Rest data (the ArcGIS Server default). It only indexesdata that are available via any of the four standards listed above - all of which ArcGIS Server iscapable of serving - but none of which are the default.If you are looking for government GIS portals instead of GIS servers, then here is a list of portaladdresses from a volunteer that wishes to remain anonymous. The links in this list will take youto maps produced by the governmental is-online-10820-entrance-2http v. https: If you find a GIS server that is not on this list and that starts with http:// thenchange the link to https:// and see if that works. If so then you should use the https version of theserver link.5
Table of contents disabled: This comment by a server address means that the serveradministrator has turned off the table of contents. If you click that link then the server willdisplay an error message that says “Services Directory has been disabled.” Even if a serverdoes in fact have a few data layers that truly are sensitive and should not be available to thepublic, that is not a good reason for turning off the entire table of contents. There is nothingsensitive about the location of parks, fire stations, roads and the vast majority of other data that ishosted on GIS servers.Login required v. public-facing: A small number a ArcGIS servers on this list require a loginin order to access any data. That type of restriction is noted in the list. Fortunately the greatmajority of government GIS servers are public-facing - i.e. no login is required.Are you looking for maps instead of just data? I expect that most government entities thathave a GIS server also have produced some maps anyone can look at. Just go to the website forthat city, county or other government entity and search their site for maps. If that does not workthen you might look for a link to the GIS or planning department. Maps that are produced byGIS staff often include explanations about the data along with supporting information such as acontact link for questions.Are you a GIS server administrator?First, hopefully you are in favor of public access to data and will not take any action tomake it hard/impossible for people to view the data your server is hosting. And if youhave disabled the ‘services directory’ (i.e. table of contents) please consider turning thatback on. Yes, if you allow the public to browse the services directory there is at least atheoretical security risk in the form of cross site scripting attacks (XSS). But if this wasactually a significant threat then it would be a common practice for server administratorsto disable the services directory and that is simply not happening.Second, if your server is still using http then notice that the great majority of servers inthis report are using https. This is in keeping with the philosophy promoted by Googleand others to ‘encrypt everything’. You can get free SSL certificates fromhttps://letsencrypt.org/. I use this service for the domains that I own.Third, if you make a significant change to your server that affects (for better or worse)the public’s ability to view the data on your server, please send me an email and I willupdate this list.Fourth, are you using gibberish for the names of the folders, services, layers andattribute data on your server? Are you using names like PG instead of Playgrounds?What good public purpose is served by obfuscating the data your server is hosting byusing gibberish names instead of plain-speak? ESRI does not charge by the letter!Fifth, is there data on your server that might endanger public safety if that data waspublicly available? If so, then consider placing that data in a folder that requires login6
credentials. By doing that, most of the data on the server could continue to be publicallyavailable while the truly sensitive data would be protected behind a login requirement.CreditsThanks to Jonathan at GeoSeer (https://www.geoseer.net/) for sharing over 200(!) ArcGIS serveraddresses. The GeoSeer site is a great complement to this list of server addresses. GeoSeerindexes individual GIS data layers and provides a way for anyone to freely search theirdatabase for GIS data. GeoSeer builds its database with code that scans GIS servers that arebased on WMS, WMTS, WFS, WCS and ArcGIS.Thanks also to everyone else that has sent me addresses for ArcGIS REST services. All thingsconsidered, I decided that the best course of action is to not credit anyone by name unless yougive me permission to do so. So if you contributed and would like to be credited, please drop mean email via my contact page: act.html7
1.READ ME June 2, 2021The servers listed in this section each support many different jurisdictions. Each server willeither display the table of contents for all of the jurisdictions it is hosting or the server will notdisplay any of those table of contents. Alas, some of these servers have changed this setting backand forth more than once. I am no longer going to take the time to update this list with thosechanges. If you are looking for data on any of the following servers simply try one of the links tosee whether or not the table of contents is g911.rsdigital.com/arcgis/rest/servicesAdded July 14, 2021For servers that do not host many different jurisdictions, this list will continue to be updated toshow whether or not those servers display the table of contents.2.Business user? Donate to help fund this workIf you are using this list for business purposes then you are taking advantage of myhard work to help you make money. Please consider making a donation.The report you are looking at has taken days and days of effort to compile. Time is spent eachweek to maintain and update the list. And there certainly are additional government ArcGISservers waiting to be discovered and added to this list. If you find this list of server addresses tobe useful please consider making a donation to help fund this work.If you know of any grant programs that might be interested in funding this work, please use the‘contact’ link at the top of this report and send me that information.Here is a link for the GISsurfer donate page. You can always include a short note indicating thatyou are donating to help fund the ArcGIS server e.html3.Federal GIS ServersDepartment of Agriculture (USDA)8
* USDA - Agricultural Research ServiceWebsite: https://www.ars.usda.gov/GIS: ervices* USDA - Bio GasWebsite: asGIS: IS: neryTool* USDA - Foreign Agricultural ServiceWebsite: https://www.fas.usda.govGIS: https://geo.fas.usda.gov/arcgis1/rest/servicesGIS: https://geo.fas.usda.gov/arcgis2/rest/services* USDA - Economic Research ServiceWebsite: https://www.ers.usda.gov/GIS: https://gis.ers.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services* USDA - Farm Service AgencyAerial Photography Field OfficeWebsite: ial-photography/GIS: https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services Includes NAIP as ImagerServer* USDA - Forest Service - Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)Website: hpGIS: ttps://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDWdead link 1* USDA - Forest Service - Forest AtlasWebsite: https://forest-atlas.fs.fed.usGIS: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/RDW FIA ForestAtlas* USDA - Forest Service - Forest healthWebsite: https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealthGIS: resthealth* USDA - Forest Service - Various linksGIS: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fsgisx01/rest/servicesRDW Wildfire has wildfire risk assessmentGIS: : : : ldfire related data* USDA - Natural Resources Conservation ServiceSoil Survey Geographic (SSURGO)9
Website: ls/survey/geo/GIS: st/services* USDA - CarbonScapesWebsite: https://www.carbonscapes.orgGIS: /CarbonScapesdead link 1* USDA - Rural DevelopmentWebsite: https://www.rd.usda.gov/GIS: esDepartment of Commerce (DOC)*DOC - Census BureauWebsite: https://www.census.gov/GIS: esGIS: rvices* DOC - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)GIS: /rest/servicesGIS: https://coast.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/GIS: S: IS: IS: rvicesGIS: cgis/rest/servicesGIS: esLatest digital marine chartsGIS: servicesSee: https://www.nesdis.noaa.govGIS: nws damageassessmenttoolkit: preliminary storm rvices/nws damageassessmenttoolkit/DamageViewer/MapServer tornado dataGIS: IS/rest/servicesA lot of Georgia layers but also some USA weather layersGIS: vicesIncludes stream gagesGIS: est/servicesServes this map: https://viewer.geospatial.weather.govTODO: Look for other rest services* DOC - National Center for Environmental PredictionWebsite: https://www.ncep.noaa.govGIS: ncludes weather service layers10
* DOC - nowCOASTWebsite: https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/help/#!section abstractGIS: https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services* DOC - National Center for Environmental InformationWebsite: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/GIS: https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/servicescdo directory has good weather data. Also countries outline, but no es/web mercator/hazards/MapServerIncludes tsunami data* DOC - Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC)Website: https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/index.htmlGIS: : /services* DOC - Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management CouncilWebsite: https://gulfcouncil.orgGIS: sDepartment of Defense (DOD)* DOD - Air Force Recruiting ServiceWebsite: https://www.recruiting.af.milGIS: services/AFRS/AFRS Data/MapServer* DOD - Army Corps of Engineers - Readiness Support CenterWebsite: https://rsc.usace.army.milGIS: https://ienccloud.us/arcgis/rest/servicesGIS: IS/rest/servicesGIS: /servicesdead link 1/ERDC has river dataGIS: /servicesdead link 1GIS: dead link 2GIS: esdead link 2Lots of flood dataGIS: esdead link 1* DOD - National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyWebsite: https://www.nga.milGIS: dead link 2* DOD - Arlington National CemeteryWebsite: https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil11
GIS: epartment of Education* DOEd - Data and StatisticsWebsite: https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtmlGIS: t of Energy (DOE)* DOE - National Energy Technology LaboratoryWebsite: https://www.netl.doe.govGIS: ttps://gis.netl.doe.gov/arcgis/rest/servicesdead link 2* DOE - Legacy ManagementGIS: https://gems.lm.doe.gov/arcgis/rest/services* DOE - National Renewable Energy LaboratoryWebsite: https://www.nrel.govGIS: ttp://gisatnrel.nrel.gov/ArcGIS/rest/servicesdead link 2* DOE - Argonne National LaboratoryWebsite: https://www.anl.govGIS: ces* DOE - Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryWebsite: https://www.pnnl.govGIS: ttps://apps.pnnl.gov/mapserver/rest/servicesdead link 2* DOE - Energy Information Administration (EIA)Website: https://www.eia.govGIS: s/rest/servicesDepartment of Health and Human Services (HHS)* HHS - Website: https://www.hhs.gov/GIS: * HHS - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)Website: https://www.hrsa.gov/GIS: https://gisportal.hrsa.gov/server/rest/services* HHS - Indian Health Service12
Website: https://www.ihs.gov/GIS: t of Homeland Security (DHS)* DHS - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)GIS: : gis.fema.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Partner/Fire List Current/MapServerWildland firesGIS: S/rest/services* DHS - Various layersGIS: https://gii.dhs.gov/host/rest/servicesDepartment of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)* HUD - Geospatial Data StorefrontGIS: https://egis.hud.gov/arcgis/rest/services* HUD - Location Affordability PortalWebsite: https://www.locationaffordability.infoGIS: s/rest/servicesDepartment of the Interior (DOI)* DOI - Bureau of Land ManagementWebsite: https://www.blm.gov/GIS: https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/servicesGIS: https://gis.blm.gov/orarcgis/rest/servicesGIS: S: es Alaska wildland firesGIS: IS: IS: IS: IS: GIS: https://gis.blm.gov/nmarcgis/rest/servicesNew MexicoGIS: https://gis.blm.gov/utarcgis/rest/servicesUtahdead link 2* DOI - Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementWebsite: https://www.boem.gov/GIS: https://gis.boem.gov/arcgis/rest/servicesAbove server produces an unusual message.13
GIS: https://gis.blm.gov/azarcgis/rest/services* DOI - Bureau of ReclamationWebsite: https://www.usbr.govGIS: https://geo.usbr.gov/server/rest/services* DOI - Fish and Wildlife ServiceWebsite: https://www.fws.govWebsite: : https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.comGIS: sdead link 1GIS: https://gis.wim.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/servicesGIS: https://cbrsgis.wim.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services Coastal Barrier Resources SystemGIS: S/rest/servicesGIS: s/rest/servicesGIS: cgis/rest/ser
5. Use this ArcGIS server list to copy the address for an ArcGIS server for that state, county or city and then paste that address into the GISsurfer dialog box. 6. Click "Send request to GIS server". After a few seconds, the sidebar will open and display the top of the table of contents for that GIS server. 7.
