Mapping

3/5/2008: A new mapping application based on ArcGIS Server technology is being tested by BPA. The mapping data will ultimately be cached for rapid performance. However, if you want to try the new application, click the following link:

In 1998, BPA launched the first comprehensive internet mapping application dealing with water resources and community-related issues in Harris County. The Bayou Information Center application has since been exhanced to cover more counties in the Houston-Galveston area and has been recently renamed BPA Watershed Maps. New datasets, including Harris County digital elevation data and preliminary flood maps generated by the Tropical Storm Allison Recovery Project (TSARP), have also been added.

Comprehensive Mapping Application

BPA Watershed Maps  (now includes more counties in the Houston/Galveston area)

Special Interest Applications

BPA Paddle Trails Guide - trail information and maps for canoeing and kayaking in our area

City of Houston (GIMS) - Home page

Geographic and Information Management System (GIMS)

Houston Bikeways

Tropical Storm Allison Recovery Project (TSARP) - Home page

FEMA Preliminary FIRM Map lookup

TSARP Interactive Mapping Tool

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - Home page

FEMA DFIRM Viewer

Multi-hazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) Viewer

Dodson & Associates, Inc. - Home page

eFloodMap.com

Houston-Galveston Area Council - Home page

H-GAC GIS Showcase

H-GAC Miscellaneous Interactive Mapping Applications

Texas Council on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Home page

Surface Water Quality Viewer

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Home page

Surf your Watershed

Finally, BPA would like to acknowledge its mapping partners, Houston Endowment, Inc., the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Biological Information Infrastructure Program (NBII). As an NBII partner, BPA has been able to access cutting-edge internet mapping technologies. For example, BPA's applications have have all been developed to utilize Open Geospatial Consortium web map services (WMS) technology. OGC WMS technology enables a user to access maps from multiple map servers (from many different vendors) in a single session using a simple web browser as the client. Thus, every web user's universe of readily accessible spatial data expands with every vendor's implementation of the OGC WMS specification that goes online. Hence, it is getting easier for users to get and make maps via the web.


In addition, BPA would like to acknowledge Lee A. Graham, who developed the suite of mapping applications in our site. Please direct any comments or questions about our mapping applications to her.