GeoCommunicator - About GeoCommunicator

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About GeoCommunicator

GeoCommunicator is sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service. As an integral part of the National Integrated Land System (NILS), GeoCommunicator is designed to provide geospatial data and products from NILS to the public. GeoCommunicator facilitates the sharing of geographic data among federal, state, local, and private individuals and organizations interested in providing the public with national datasets. GeoCommunicator provides a central site for the distribution of geospatial data in three seperate applications: Land and Mineral Use Records, Federal Land Stewardship and Land Survey Information System.

GeoCommunicator - downloadable data and live maps

Land and Mineral Use Records: The Land and Mineral Use Records is an Internet application within GeoCommunicator. It allows users to search, locate, and display the BLM's land and mineral use authorizations and mining claims on public lands throughout the United States. Land and mineral use authorizations include such things as: oil and gas leases, right-of-ways, agreements, and mineral permits. The Land and Mineral Use Records application provides an easy-to-use Viewer that allows users to spatially or textually locate and display land and mineral use authorization and mining claim parcel information.

Federal Land Stewardship: The Federal Land Stewardship is an Internet application to search, locate, and display the federal land management boundaries for public lands in the United States. The Viewer can be used to graphically or textually locate the federal land of interest. Users can select by township and range, latitude and longitude, federal land name (BLM district, Forest Service Region), or by drawing a box on the map. The results of the search will display the selected area with symbolized boundaries that indicate the federal surface management agencies responsible for the federal lands. Contact information is provided for each parcel. Federal Land Stewardship also has a streaming map service that can be used with GIS software.

Land Survey Information: The Land Survey Information System (LSIS) contains a collection of geographic information representing the official Public Land Survey System (PLSS) of the United States. The land grid is computed from the Bureau of Land Management's survey records (official plats and field notes), local survey records, and geodetic control information. LSIS data can be downloaded through GeoCommunicator free of charge. Data is prepackaged for easy selection and quick download. LSIS also has a streaming map service that can be used with GIS software.

Map Server: http://www.lsi.blm.gov
Map Service: BLM_LSIS

Reference: The Reference section contains information and links to cadastral, survey, and land parcel information.

Search Geodata.gov: GeoCommunicator's data sharing, publishing and searching capablities were converted to the Geodata.gov portal. Geodata.gov, released in June of 2003, is as one of the President's 24 Egovernment initiatives and is the government portal for geospatial data. Geodata.gov allows users to share, search, locate, and access geospatial data such as live maps, images, downloadable data, clearinghouses, planned data collections, off-line datasets, and more. Users can publish information about geospatial data they wish to share and provide links to the data they are hosting.


	The GeoCommunicator is a component of the National Integrated Land System developed by Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.