Agreements and Policies
GIS Data Products License Agreement
This agreement is necessary to obtain GIS data from Montgomery County Government.
GIS Data Products Sales Agreement
Open the GIS Data Product Sales agreement signed by the Montgomery County ITPCC.
Annotated Code of Maryland Subtitle 9, Sections 10-901 to 10-904
A definition of Automated Mapping-Geographic Information Systems and permissible data fee structures are provided.

Data Orders
To order GIS data from Montgomery County Government, please follow the procedure below:

1. Use the Data Catalog and Shopping Cart to select an available County GIS data set(s), add it to your shopping cart, and generate a printable data order form.
2. Print the GIS Data Order Form using your browser and sign it.
3. Print and sign the GIS Data Products License Agreement (PDF)
4. Send the GIS Data Order Form and the GIS Data License Agreement with full payment (check or money order) to the Montgomery County Department of Technology Services - GIS mailing address care of Apollo Teng (GIS Manager). Data will be delivered after full payment has been received.

To order base map data layers such as property or planimetric data from the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), then go to the How to Order GIS Products link.

Metadata
Montgomery County Government Metadata
Metadata for Montgomery County Government maintained GIS data sets satisfy the mandatory or minimum geo-spatial metadata requirements stated in the 1998 Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Geo-spatial Metadata.

Data Code Lists
Land Use Codes-Maryland Assessment Data Base.

Reports 
MC:MAPS Consortium GIS Data Layers Summary Report
This report summarizes the data layers maintained by the MC:MAPS Consortium.
MC:MAPS Property Map Composition
Describes the Property data layer map composition.
MC:MAPS Plan/Topo Map Composition
Describes the Planimetric and Topographic data layers map composition.

Other Data Sources
Montgomery County, Maryland

• Maryland's National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Clearinghouse Metadata Server
• Montgomery County Atlas Project (MAP): M-NCPPC & Towson University

• Chesapeake Bay From Space - Towson University CGIS
• Fairfax County, Virginia GIS
• Maryland Department of Planning - Property View
• Maryland Department of Planning's State Data Center
• Maryland Technology Toolbox
• Maryland Historical Trust
• Prince Georges County, Maryland
• University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility

Federal Government

• Chesapeake Bay Program
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
• NASA Goddard Global Change Master Directory: A Directory of Earth Science Data
• US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Envirofacts Spatial Data and Applications
• US EPA Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
• US Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center
• USGS National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
• USGS - Maryland Office

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