Click Here To Subscribe To News And Data Updates!

Archive / GeoStor

RSS feed for this section

System Outage Notice

  It’s time for some much needed system maintenance.  The Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure will be offline beginning on Friday, May 8th through the weekend until Monday May 11th.  Users should make your data request and fill your carts now for any data needed prior to the weekend.

Happy New Year: Launch of New Arkansas GIS Office Website

On January 5, 2015, the Arkansas GIS Office launched its new website. This launch comes a bit earlier than anticipated due to the failure of old system hardware. As such, there may be a few kinks to work out. However, this launch is designed with every Arkansas GIS stakeholder in mind. This is your website; this […]

Little Things Mean More in the Right Way

Today I signed a procurement document that will impact every constituent of the agency for the next decade, and most of them will never ever know it. This document was the final step in a long process to changing how GeoStor will exist in the future. Now comes the hard work of platform, interface, and […]

A Benchmark in the Early Days of GeoStor

Often, I fail to take a minute and look at back at where we have been as GIS community in Arkansas. Our state’s collective GIS story is pretty fascinating. I was rummaging through a box at my desk after a recent move and ran across this photo which marks a very important benchmark in the history of […]

Updated Centerlines for Crawford, Sebastian & Scott Counties

The Arkansas Road Centerline File (ACF)  has been updated. This ACF update includes:  Crawford, Sebastian and Scott counties. ACF by County: http://bit.ly/ACF4Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/ Filename (TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line) The update for these counties was provided by the GIS Team at Western Arkansas Planning and Development District. Special thanks to their staff for providing high quality data for use by the […]

ZIP+4 ® Centroids Updated for Calhoun, Desha, Van Buren, Woodruff and Izard Counties

ZIP+4® centroid coordinates have been realigned and published for Calhoun, Desha, Van Buren, Woodruff, and Izard Counties.  For history on the publication of ZIP+4® centroid coordinates visit this article.ZIP+4® on GeoStor: http://bit.ly/zip_4_centroidsZIP+4® on Statewide FTP: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/  TITLE: LOCAT_ZIP_PLUS_4

Arkansas Road Centerline File Updated

The Arkansas Road Centerline File (ACF)  has been updated. This ACF update includes:  Calhoun, Howard, Miller, Polk and Yell counties. ACF by County: http://bit.ly/ACF4Statewide dataset: ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Public_Statewide/ Filename (TRANSP_ROADS_ACF_line) Special thanks to the hard working folks in those counties for providing high quality data for use by the broader community.

City Boundary Update

The City Boundary for Elm Springs, Springdale, Fort Smith, and North Little Rock, Arkansas have been updated on GeoStor.The file can be downloaded via http://bit.ly/CityBoundary Very special thanks to the AHTD Mapping Section for this update and all the hard effort it takes to digitize these map revisions and complicated annexation changes.

System Maintenance Service Interruption Scheduled 5/6/2013 7PM to 10PM

This week we have experienced numerous service interruptions in the GeoStor system that operates the applications used by your agencies.  We have worked with the hardware vendor and DIS to isolate the problem.  We have replacement equipment parts being shipped from the manufacturer. In order to install the new parts the system will be taken […]

Huntsville City Boundary Updated on GeoStor

The City Boundary for Huntsville, Arkansas has been updated on GeoStor.The file can be downloaded via http://bit.ly/CityBoundary Very special thanks to the AHTD Mapping Section for this update and all the hard effort it takes to digitize these map revisions and complicated annexation changes.