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State goes high tech to protect land

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 12/04/08

The state government has a new tool in tracking preserved land and is letting the rest of us in on it.

Paul W. Gillespie - The Capital
Gov. Martin O'Malley announces the launch of GreenPrint, an online, interactive mapping tool that shows land preservation in Maryland. It can be accessed at www.greenprint.maryland.gov.
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Computer whizzes at the state combined property records and land preservation data and piled it on maps and satellite images to create a system called "GreenPrint." It's posted online at www.greenprint.maryland.gov.

Clicking on the maps reveals layers and layers of data, showing where the state has bought land and where the state would like to buy land in the future.

It's all done in a user-friendly way, said Kenny Miller, the...

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All the way from IDAHO - 2008-12-12 16:24:42

Go Maryland...I read about this on All Points Blog while sitting at work in Boise, ID. Being from Maryland and working in GIS this excites me.

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