Enhance Your CRI

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Create and Use Your Own Maps

Add your own GIS layers! Click here for instructions on how to download and use a free GIS viewer, ArcExplorer, to view the CRI data layers AND add your own data layers.

Coming Soon! How to use the new ArcGIS Explorer to connect to the CRI data, add your own data and use tools, like searching for an address (finally!).

Coming Soon! How to connect to all CRI data package using ArcMap

Coming Soon! View to the CRI data package in Google Earth

Other helpful data layers

Natural Resources

- Detailed Topography
- Vernal Pools
- Habitat Maps
- Detailed Open Space Maps
- Scenic Vistas
- Connecticut Watershed Maps (pdf format including basin names and flow direction)

Cultural Resources

- Community facilities such as schools, government buildings, and community centers
- Utility lines which can be obtained from the utility companies, or from aerial photographs
- Parcels which can be obtained from the town tax assessor
- Local zoning is the most prevalent type of regulation in your town, designating what use and density of development is allowed; local zoning is not available statewide, but would be an important inventory layer to acquire for your CRI.
- Historic resources/sites such as stone walls, historic buildings and sites.

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