What's New
Quick Links to What's New For: Land and Mineral Records | Land Survey Information
August 2009
New Data Layers for Renewable Energy development:
- Proposed Section 368 Energy Corridors
- Areas of Potential Energy Development: Geothermal prospective Areas
- Piceance Basin Oil Shale Prospective Areas
- Concentrating Solar Power Resource Potential Areas
- Solar Photovoltaic Resource Potential Areas
- Wind Potential Areas
Solar and Wind Energy:
- Solar Energy Study Areas from the Solar Energy Development Programmatic EIS.
- Solar and wind pending and authorized were moved to separate data layers. The solar and wind energy cases were removed from the ROW-power category to improve mapping.
- Dept. of Defense Airspace Consultation Areas for use when considering development of solar and wind facilities and communication sites.
Map showing new Solar Energy Study Areas in brown with orange pending solar applications and green authorized
Mining Claim Density:
Mining Claim (MC) density maps were created using the Mining Claim data from the BLM's LR2000 system (www.blm.gov/lr2000) showing the MC density at the township, section, and quarter level. If we don't have the section or the quarter-quarter land descriptions in GeoCommunicator than the MC density won't show at that level. The MC density will show based on what is entered into the BLM's LR2000 system, therefore if a MC was not able to be mapped in GeoCommunicator it will still show in the density layer. This is a good way to determine if a MC is missing from GeoCommunicator. The mining claim density layer is updated weekly. This data layer can be used to determine the amount of mining claims in an area which may impact development of the area for wind and solar development or for other activities.
Mining Claim Density map showing density at the township level
Enhanced Mapping
All of the map viewers have gone from ArcIMS to ArcGIS 9.3 server technology. Below are some of the new map control features. You can also use your mouse to zoom in and out (mouse wheel) and to pan (click your left mouse button and drag the mouse).
Data - Layer Changes
- Oil & Gas
- Breakout of Agreements into units, participating areas, communitization, etc. with new symbology.
- Leases have been broken out into producing and non-producing leases.
- Lease sale color changed from orange to red.
- Geothermal
- Geothermal leases have been split out into producing and non-producing.
- Added Geothermal nominations.
- Wind and Solar Energy
- New symbology.
- Added case established/application received date to show which was the first application in.This information is available from the Identify window.
- Coal
- Break out of coal leases into coal leases, coal permits/licenses, and other coal authorizations.
- Abandoned Mine Data
- more data and photos, data is updated weekly
- Range Allotments
- U.S. Forest Service Range Allotments
- Wild horse and burro Herd Areas
- Wild horse and burro Herd Management Areas
Data - Feature Services
Feature services are available for most of the layers. For more information, go to the Map and Data Services section.
New or enhanced tools:
- Lat/long tool
- Added UTM for locating the coordinates on the map. UTM is also displayed on the map when using the Identify
- Identify
- View more than 100 records when using the search or identify tools.
- Display of what the identify is based on: latitude/longitude, sketch, district, county, etc.
- New energy Search
- Includes a geographic search.
- Set what Tabs are returned.
- Advance search contains serial number, name, and date searches.
- More region searches launched from the Callout on the map or from the Identify
- Search by BLM Admin area, county, township, US Forest, state
- Search by selected record polygon
New Viewers:
Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNMPLA)
SNMPLA allows the Bureau of Land Management to sell public land within a specific boundary around Las Vegas, Nevada. The revenue derived from land sales is split between the State of Nevada General Education Fund (5%), the Southern Nevada Water Authority (10%), and a special account available to the Secretary of the Interior for the following projects. GeoCommunicator shows you where the projects are and provides a link to each project on the SNMPLA project website.
- Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas
- Capital Improvements
- Conservation Initiatives
- Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plans (MSHCP)
- Environmentally Sensitive Land Acquisitions
- Lake Tahoe Restoration Act Project
Tools for Developers using NILS GeoCommunicator Web Services or use them within GeoCommunicator:
NILS GeoCommunicator provides the following Web Services: Find and Derive Land Description (LD), Township GeoCoder, and Survey Exporter. The Web Services are provided as tools on NILS GeoCommunicator or they can be developed by anyone for use in other applications outside of GeoCommunicator. The web services can be used in your applications that consume these services using protocols such as SOAP and GeoRSS. The Web Services use the National Integrated Land System's (NILS) survey-based and non survey-based land descriptions. The land descriptions are in NAD83 Geographic. We provide an XML of the services and you develop the interface and connection to the service for your application. For more information, go to the Map and Data Services section.
Land Survey Information System
PLSS Download - Survey Exporter Allows you to export BLM points, points/lines, or control points from the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data (township, range, section) using the NILS geocommunicator website - Land Survey Information System. BLM points are not available for alternate source data. Reliabilities are available in the coordinate data. Survey Exporter can be accessed from the PLSS download map viewer by using the 'Select Township' tool or by choosing the ‘State’ or ‘County’ tab when downloading PLSS data. From the 'Cadastral Data Distribution' Window, select the townships for the desired coordinates by checking the box in the ‘Points’ column for the desired townships. You can select up to 10 townships from the list for download. Choose 'Export Survey Data' to start the process.
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Cadastral Data Distribution Window Showing Download of Coordinates |
From the Survey Exporter Window, select the desired content and format. Click "Export to File" to create the file for downloading. Supported formats are KML for loading into Google Earth, GPX for loading into GPS units, List format, and GeoRSS (xml). The "All points and lines" option is only available in KML or GeoRSS formats. Wait for a the exported file URL to get created. Select "Click to Download" to download the data. |
Survey Exporter Window Showing the Selection of Export Content and Format |
