This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information on http://imap.maryland.gov. Each point in Coastal Resiliency Assessment Shoreline Points represents a 250 meter segment of the Maryland coast - including Atlantic - Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Bay shorelines. The Natural Capital Project's Coastal Vulnerability model was used to calculate a Shoreline Hazard Index - representing the relative exposure of each segment to storm-induced erosion and flooding. Inputs to the model included 6 physical variables (geomorphology - elevation - sea level rise - wave power - storm surge height and erosion rates) and 5 habitat types (forest - marsh - dune - oyster reef and underwater grass). Two scenarios of the model were run: one scenario incorporating the protective role of all existing coastal habitats and the other scenario simulating the complete loss of habitats. The difference between the two scenarios indicates the potential magnitude of coastal hazard reduction by habitats at each location. Model results were integrated with MD DNR's Community Flood Risk Areas (March - 2016) in order to highlight areas where hazard reduction by habitats is most likely to benefit at-risk coastal communities. Last Updated: 3/31/2016Feature Service Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Environment/MD_CoastalResiliencyAssessment/FeatureServer/0 ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. This data set represents the Department of Natural Resources interpretation of the location - land cover/land use type and geographic extent of the critical land areas for towns near the Chesapeake Bay. A Critical Area includes all land within 1 - 000 feet of tidal waters and wetlands in Maryland - as well as the waters of Maryland s Chesapeake Bay and coastal bay area. This data file Critical Areas Towns only contains Critical Areas in 14 Maryland Towns: Charlestown - Chesapeake Beach - Chesapeake City - Crisfield - Leonardtown - North Beach - Northeast - Perryville - Port Deposit - Princess Anne - Rock Hall - Secretary - Snow Hill and Vienna.Feature Service Link:http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Environment/MD_CriticalAreas/FeatureServer/1 ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. In 1984 - the General Assembly enacted the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Act to regulate development - manage land use and conserve natural resources on land in those areas designated as Critical Area. For this document - the Critical Area is all land and water areas within 1000 feet of the tidal waters' edge or from the landward edge of adjacent tidal wetlands and the lands under them. Georeferenced digital data files of the critical Area have been produced for Baltimore City and the 16 Maryland counties with land located within the Critical Area. The digital maps produced for each jurisdiction are polygons depicting the Critical Area and the land use classifications recognized by the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission (CBCAC). Each jurisdiction is a separate file. The data were produced from hard copy parcel maps originally submitted by the counties as part of the requirements for developing their Critical Area Program. For the purpose of the Mdimap web service the Critical Area Data is displayed by two data layers - one general layer and one layer showing the available critical area data for local towns.Feature Service Link:http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Environment/MD_CriticalAreas/FeatureServer/0 ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service layer. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. In 2000 - the Maryland Geological Survey (MGS) was awarded a Coastal Zone Management grant to complete the acquisition of a recent (ca. 1990) digital shoreline for the coastal regions of Maryland -- the Chesapeake Bay - its tributaries - the coastal bays - and the Atlantic coast. MGS contracted the services of EarthData International - Inc. (EDI) - currently of Frederick - Md. - to extract shorelines from an existing wetlands delineation - which was based on photo interpretation of 3.75-minute digital orthophoto quarter quads (DOQQs). In areas where a wetlands coverage was not yet available - EDI interpreted shorelines directly from the orthophotography. DOQQ registration (Maryland State Plane Coordinate System - NAD 83 - meters) was transferred automatically to the shoreline vectors. Following shoreline extraction or interpretation - EDI assigned attributes to the vectors based on shoreline type: beach - vegetated - structure - or water's edge. All four categories are linear features - except 'beach - ' which - if sufficiently wide - can be both linear and polygonal. Shorelines were merged into 7.5-minute quadrangles - provided that the aerial photography on which the DOQQs were based was flown in the same year. MGS used the shorelines to create a series of Shoreline Changes maps. In doing so - MGS erased the landward edge of beach polygons - leaving the seaward edge intact as a linear feature. The Geographic Information Services Division of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) merged the shorelines for all of the 7.5-minute quadrangles into a single - statewide coverage. MGS - working collaboratively with Towson University's Center for Geographic Sciences (CGIS) - subsequently used the recent shorelines - along with historical ones - as input into a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) program - the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) (Danforth and Thieler - 1992; Thieler and others - 2001). DSAS determines linear rates of shoreline change (erosion or accretion) along closely spaced - shore-normal transects. Based on DSAS output - the collaborators assigned the following erosion rate categories as attributes to the recent shoreline - clipped by county from the statewide coverage: a) High erosion rate (more than 8 ft/yr) - b) Moderate erosion rate (4-8 ft/yr) - c) Low erosion rate (2-4 ft/yr) - d) Slight erosion rate (0-2 ft/yr) - e) No change - f) Accretion - g) Protected - h) Unknown and i) No Data The DOQQs from which the shorelines were interpreted meet National Map Accuracy Standards at the production scale of 1:12 - 000 using the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing(ASPRS) method. Consider the scale in displaying and using the vectors. Displaying the vectors at scales larger than those of the source documents is considered bad practice. See Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report for positional inaccuracies in the data set. The aerial photography from which the DOQQs were developed was not tide-coordinated. Therefore - shoreline in this data set do not reprsent a consistent vertical datum. Last Updated: Feature Service Layer Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Hydrology/MD_ShorelineChanges/MapServer/1 ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibi

This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. Shoreline Situation Reports (SSR) is intended to assist planners - managers - and regulators in decisions pertaining to management of coastal areas and natural resources therein. Data collected describes conditions in the immediate riparian zone - the bank - and along the shore. Map Service Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Hydrology/MD_ShorelineInventory/MapServer ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. Shoreline Situation Reports (SSR) is intended to assist planners - managers - and regulators in decisions pertaining to management of coastal areas and natural resources therein. Data collected describes conditions in the immediate riparian zone - the bank - and along the shore. Map Service Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Hydrology/MD_ShorelineInventory/MapServer ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. Shoreline Situation Reports (SSR) is intended to assist planners - managers - and regulators in decisions pertaining to management of coastal areas and natural resources therein. Data collected describes conditions in the immediate riparian zone - the bank - and along the shore. Map Service Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Hydrology/MD_ShorelineInventory/MapServer ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service layer. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. Digital shoreline vectors derived from bromide or mylar copies of National Ocean Service T-sheets or hydrographic surveys. Area covered includes Chesapeake Bay and tidal tributary shorelines along the western side of the Chesapeake Bay and five 7.5' quadrangles on the lower eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Last Updated: Feature Service Layer Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Hydrology/MD_ShorelineChanges/MapServer/2 ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information on http://imap.maryland.gov. This service depicts Bay Trust Fund priority zones. The Bay Trust Fund allows Maryland to accelerate Chesapeake Bay restoration by focusing limited financial resources on the most effective non-point source pollution control projects. Data source: MD Department of Natural Resources Last Updated: 2014 Map Service Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Environment/MD_TrustFund/FeatureServer/1 ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

This is a MD iMAP hosted service layer. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. In Maryland certain wetlands with rare - threatened - endangered species or unique habitat receive special attention. The Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) Title 26 - Subtitle 23 - Chapter 06 - Sections 01 & 02 identifies these Wetlands of Special State Concern (WSSC) and affords them certain protections including a 100 foot buffer from development. The Maryland Department of the Environment is responsible for identifying and regulating these wetlands. In general - the US Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory wetlands provide the basis for identifying these special wetlands. Additional information - determined from field inspections - is used to identify and classify these areas. Last Updated: Feature Service Layer Link: http://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Hydrology/MD_Wetlands/MapServer/3 ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS: The Spatial Data and the information therein (collectively "the Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind either expressed implied or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct indirect incidental consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.