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Map Service Center Update

Map Service Center Update. NFDA 2008 Annual Meeting Millennium Resort Scottsdale April 1, 2008. Agenda. Update on Historic Maps Managing your MSC account Online subscription service Order history and account balance New and Improved Desktop F-MIT Desktop DFIRM viewer

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Map Service Center Update

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  1. Map Service Center Update NFDA 2008 Annual Meeting Millennium Resort Scottsdale April 1, 2008

  2. Agenda • Update on Historic Maps • Managing your MSC account • Online subscription service • Order history and account balance • New and Improved Desktop F-MIT • Desktop DFIRM viewer • National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) • Google Earth

  3. Update on Historic Maps • Currently 84,408 FIRMs and FBFMs • Approximately 90% of all maps produced • 1% - 2% very dark and marked “best available” • NFDA has provided hundreds of missing images

  4. Managing Your Account • Online Subscription Service • Feature added April 2007 • Allows users to add or delete subscription items to their accounts • FIRMs, FIS reports, DFIRM DBs • Entire US, State, County, or Community • Online, CD, or paper • Changes go into a pending status • MSC approves subscriptions within one business data

  5. Managing Your Account • Start in the “My Account” menu • Select link next to “Subscriptions”

  6. Managing Your Account • Select Product • Select Level • Entire US • State • County • Community • Select Media • Add subscription

  7. Managing Your Account • List of active and pending subscriptions • Add new or delete an old

  8. Managing Your Account View order history Deposit accountbalance

  9. New and Improved Desktop F-MIT • Version 2.0 released December 2007 • Desktop application for FIRMette creation • Enhancements • Viewing DOQ base(2-color) FIRMs • Viewing 11” x 17” maps • Built-in tutorials • Pan feature

  10. Desktop DFIRM Viewer • Allows users to view DFIRM databases, including Statewide cut of NFHL • Typical layer control and query capabilities of a GIS viewer • Ability to insert comments at specific points • Expected late 2008

  11. Desktop DFIRM Viewer

  12. Desktop DFIRM Viewer

  13. National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) • Nationwide database of geospatial flood hazard data • Continually maintained flood hazard information from DFIRM and LOMR production • Data available for distribution coming soon • Available for viewing now on the MIP, without LOMRs

  14. Data Availability • DFIRM Viewer currently available through the MSC website homepage • Future enhancements will enable NFHL data downloads from the MSC catalog page

  15. Current View

  16. Updated Viewer with Report

  17. Updated Viewer with LOMA

  18. NFHL • NFHL data will be available directly from the MSC Product Catalog

  19. NFHL • Customers will select area of interest by State

  20. Google Earth • NFHL viewable via Google Earth • Uses a KMZ file – interface between Google Earth and WMS • Currently available on MIP under Tools and Links • Access will be via the MSC website in the future (when NFHL data is on the MSC website) • Useful for making public aware of their risk to flood hazards

  21. Google Earth

  22. User Resources • MSC URL: http://msc.fema.gov • MSC Customer Service Department: • E-mail: FEMA-MSCservice@dhs.gov • Telephone: 1-800-358-9616

  23. Questions? J. Christopher Eckhart, CFM christopher.eckhart@associates.dhs.gov 410-471-4014

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