Map Service Center Update
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Map Service Center Update
NFDA 2008 Annual MeetingMillennium 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 • National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)• Google Earth
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
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
Managing Your Account
1. Start in the “My Account” menu
2. Select link next to “Subscriptions”
Managing Your Account
3. Select Product4. Select Level
– Entire US– State– County– Community
5. Select Media6. Add
subscription
Managing Your Account
• List of active and pending subscriptions
• Add new or delete an old
Managing Your Account
View order history Deposit accountbalance
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
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
Desktop DFIRM Viewer
Desktop DFIRM Viewer
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
Data Availability
• DFIRM Viewer currently available through the MSC website homepage
• Future enhancements will enable NFHL data downloads from the MSC catalog page
Current View
Updated Viewer with Report
Updated Viewer with LOMA
NFHL
• NFHL data will be available directly from the MSC Product Catalog
NFHL
• Customers will select area of interest by State
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
Google Earth
User Resources
• MSC URL: http://msc.fema.gov
• MSC Customer Service Department: – E-mail: [email protected]– Telephone: 1-800-358-9616