Identifying Wisconsin’s Cartographic Phantoms
March 23, 2023
Your input is needed on a proposal to reclassify 31 “cartographic phantoms” found on maps of Wisconsin.
Tagged As: SCO Projects
State Cartographer’s Office Annual Report for 2021-22 Now Available
September 20, 2022
Find out what the SCO has been working on over the last year.
Ashland County Building Inventory Project
August 1, 2022
A recent study highlights some of the barriers to acquiring digital tax assessment data to create a detailed building database for flood modeling.
SCO Annual Report for 2020-21 Now Available
August 19, 2021
Our latest annual report covers SCO activities from July 2020 to June 2021.
SCO Annual Report for 2019-20 now available
August 13, 2020
We have published our 2019-20 Annual Report.
State Cartographer’s Office Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2020
Report of State Cartographer’s Office activities from July 2019 through June 2020.
Statewide Land Cover Mapping Project
April 16, 2018
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) partnered on a project to map the current vegetation, water, and urban patterns (“land cover”) of Wisconsin.
Statewide PLSS database to be developed
February 7, 2018
The V4 Parcel Project will include the collection and aggregation of local Public Land Survey System corner data, culminating in an initial statewide PLSS database.
Project maps Wisconsin’s economic history
October 25, 2017
A grant from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program has facilitated access to a GIS database of 1930s-era economic inventory maps for coastal areas of Wisconsin.
Mapping Wisconsin’s Economic History
October 10, 2017
This publication describes a project that created a digital GIS database and portal of historic “Bordner” maps for the coastal areas of Wisconsin.