Description: Boundaries of Wisconsin cities, villages and towns not split at county boundaries. This feature class includes associated federal and state Minor Civil Division (MCD) codes. In this feature class, county boundary lines are dissolved in cases where a municipality (MCD) spans two or more counties. In other words, each MCD is represented as a single polygon or region feature. See feature class EN_MCD_MULTI_CTY_AR_VAR for MCDs intersected by county boundaries.
The source of this data is the latest "WI Cities, Towns, and Villages” data set published by the Wisconsin Legislative Technical Services Bureau (LTSB). For more information, visit LTSB’s GIS Open Data Portal at https://data-ltsb.opendata.arcgis.com/. DNR staff occasionally make edits to this data to reflect annexations and incorporations that have occurred since the latest LTSB release. Contact Nina Rihn (608) 261-0760 at Wisconsin DNR GIS Section with questions about what changes have been made.
Copyright Text: Wisconsin DOT, DNR, 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 "American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian" (AIANNH) areas.
Copyright Text: U.S. Census Bureau. 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 TIGER data, see: http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/