Description: Boundaries of Wisconsin cities, villages and towns split at county boundaries, including federal and state codes. DATCP created then modified this layer on 3/28/2013, in coordination with DNR, from a feature class obtained from Wisconsin DOT on 8/2/2011. Specifically, DATCP and/or DNR corrected various missing or erroneous code values. DATCP updated this feature class again on 6/26/2013. Specific modifications include the addition of the Village of Harrison (Calumet and Outagamie Counties) created from part of the Town of Harrison, and geometry fixes to the boundaries of the Village of Gratiot and the City of Shullsburg (both in Lafayette County) based on errors discovered during a DATCP Agricultural Enterprise Area (AEA) petition review. DATCP based its 6/26/2013 fixes on data received from Calumet, Outagamie, and Lafayette County LIOs. In January 2014, DNR staff updated the MCD layer to reflect the 2013 annexation of a portion of Monroe County into the Village of Rockland in La Crosse County. The MCD layer was also updated to reflect a 2013 increase in the extent of the Village of Harrison in Calumet County. In January 2015, DNR staff made minor edits to the feature class's geometry to close several very small sliver polygons.
Copyright Text: Wisconsin DOT, DNR, DATCP, and various Wisconsin County Land Information Offices.
Description: DNR/BTS staff downloaded OpenStreetMap (OSM) roads data for Wisconsin from the GeoFabrik website in June, 2014: http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html . Additional information about OSM is avaialble on the GeoFabrik site: http://www.geofabrik.de/geofabrik/openstreetmap.html . BTS staff projected the data to WTM. BTS staff added several attributes to the Roads feature class to facilitate use of the OSM data in DNR cached vector basemaps.
Copyright Text: The OpenStreetMap Foundation and GeoFabrik
Description: DNR/BTS staff downloaded OpenStreetMap (OSM) roads data for Wisconsin from the GeoFabrik website in June, 2014: http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html . Additional information about OSM is avaialble on the GeoFabrik site: http://www.geofabrik.de/geofabrik/openstreetmap.html . BTS staff projected the data to WTM. BTS staff added several attributes to the Roads feature class to facilitate use of the OSM data in DNR cached vector basemaps.
Copyright Text: The OpenStreetMap Foundation and GeoFabrik
Description: This data set is an ArcMap Feature Class/ESRI shapefile representing the centerline of Wisconsin railroads at a 1:7,000 scale. None of the source information originated within WisDOT. All of the data was provided by railroad operators and owners. The linework was originally compiled from the 100K Digital Line Graph produced by the US Geological Survey and from rail industry track charts and timetables. The linework was further refined in 2009 using digital orthophotos (2005) as a visual reference. This data set is a generalized railroad representation. It includes most (not all) mainline track. Most track, including double track, is digitized as a single line. Most non mainline track (sidings, spurs, yards) is not digitized. Most out of service track (not currently in use) is digitized. Most historical track (abandoned or sold to a private entity) is not digitized. This data set is under constant revision due to ongoing changes in the rail network. Some rail corridors are removed from service and some are abandoned (sold to a private entity). New track is constructed at some locations. WisDOT updates Rail GIS as track information is made available by the railroads. Rail GIS is a constant work in progress. It is not current, accurate, or complete. Rail GIS depicts some rail lines beyond state borders, however, linework outside of Wisconsin is for cartographic purposes only and is not updated on a yearly basis.
Description: This layer is a representation of Tribal Land in Wisconsin, developed in coordination with the DNR Tribal Liaison and the DNR Agency GIS Coordinator. It primarily consists of data from U.S. Census Bureau 2018 TIGER "American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian" (AIANNH) areas.
Copyright Text: The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions. For more information about U.S. Census 2015 TIGER data, see: http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2015/TGRSHP2015_TechDoc.pdf