Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The political boundary datalayer is a polygon representation of town boundaries created from arcs developed from survey coordinates extracted from the 68-volume Harbor and Lands Commission Town Boundary Atlas for the 351 communities (cities and towns) in Massachusetts. The Atlas was published in the early 1900's and is maintained by the Survey Section of Massachusetts Highway Department. For communities with a coastal boundary, MassGIS has collaborated with Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Department of Environmental Protection to complete a 1:12000 scale coastline. The boundary for the coastline was defined as being the upland side of tidal flats and rocky inter-tidal zones. Note that the 351 communities are the official municipal names, not including "villages" or other sections of towns. The TOWNSSURVEY_POLYM layer was created by dissolving the TOWNSSURVEY_POLY feature class; a subset of the attribute table was retained, and the AREA and SQUARE_MILES fields were calculated for the entirety of each town.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>MxxxOthLeg contains polygons representing other “invisible” legal boundaries such as easements or private rights-of-way which overlap tax parcels.There may be few or even no features in this layer and it is required only if such boundaries are shown on the original assessors map. </SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>Only entity attributes are listed in this metadata. Please see M000TaxPar for all other information</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Please see M000TaxPar for all other information.
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