I just finished adding a big bunch of USA-based government ArcGIS server addresses to the list I curate. There are now 2,200+ addresses for ArcGIS servers from the federal level down to the city level. Most of the recent updates were for counties and cities. This is a curated list with weekly updates that fix or flag any bad links.
Open the list (PDF file):
https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-state-county-city-GIS-servers.pdf
And in doing that work I realized there are several ways that anyone can help improve this list. Of course if you know of any additional ArcGIS server addresses (not portals!) then I would enjoy adding those to the list. But here are a couple less obvious ways that anyone can help.
1. County *or* city
It is certainly possible that I mistakenly listed a server address that mainly has county data under the ‘City’ heading for that state - or vice versa. If you happen to spot such a mistake, please let me know. My contact link is in the list.
2. County *and* city
Some counties and cities have pooled their resources and one or the other will operate a GIS server with data for both jurisdictions. When that happens I would like to include a note in the list linking those jurisdictions. To clarify, I would like to identify servers with a significant (i.e. more than just a few layers) amount of data for more than one jurisdiction.
And thanks to Micah Babinski for a real nice article in the national URISA newsletter. I belong to WAURISA but not the national group. As a result I only happened to recently see the article from earlier this year. See p.12.
https://www.urisa.org/clientuploads/directory/Documents/The%20GIS%20Professional/2019/MayJune2019.pd...
Finally, I am continuing to work on the beta version of GISsurfer v2.0. The goal of this beta version is to let anyone surf ArcGIS data almost as easily as you surf the internet. No GIS savvy required! For the curious among you the following link is for a page with brief instructions and a link to the beta code. A new feature in the beta version is the ability to make a link that (1) starts GISsurfer and (2) automatically opens the sidebar and displays the table of contents for an ArcGIS server.
GISsurfer beta info and link:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer-beta.html
Joseph Elfelt
Twitter: @mappingsupport
https://mappingsupport.com
