Map Service Center Update

NFDA 2008 Annual MeetingMillennium Resort Scottsdale

April 1, 2008

Agenda

• Update on Historic Maps• Managing your MSC account

– Online subscription service– Order history and account balance

• New and Improved Desktop F-MIT• Desktop DFIRM viewer • National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)• Google Earth

Update on Historic Maps

• Currently 84,408 FIRMs and FBFMs• Approximately 90% of

all maps produced• 1% - 2% very dark

and marked “best available”

• NFDA has provided hundreds of missing images

Managing Your Account

• Online Subscription Service– Feature added April 2007– Allows users to add or delete subscription

items to their accounts• FIRMs, FIS reports, DFIRM DBs• Entire US, State, County, or Community• Online, CD, or paper

– Changes go into a pending status – MSC approves subscriptions within one

business data

Managing Your Account

1. Start in the “My Account” menu

2. Select link next to “Subscriptions”

Managing Your Account

3. Select Product4. Select Level

– Entire US– State– County– Community

5. Select Media6. Add

subscription

Managing Your Account

• List of active and pending subscriptions

• Add new or delete an old

Managing Your Account

View order history Deposit accountbalance

New and Improved Desktop F-MIT

• Version 2.0 released December 2007• Desktop application for FIRMette creation• Enhancements

– Viewing DOQ base(2-color) FIRMs

– Viewing 11” x 17” maps– Built-in tutorials– Pan feature

Desktop DFIRM Viewer

• Allows users to view DFIRM databases, including Statewide cut of NFHL

• Typical layer control and query capabilities of a GIS viewer

• Ability to insert comments at specific points

• Expected late 2008

Desktop DFIRM Viewer

Desktop DFIRM Viewer

National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)

• Nationwide database of geospatial flood hazard data

• Continually maintained flood hazard information from DFIRM and LOMR production

• Data available for distribution coming soon• Available for viewing now on the MIP,

without LOMRs

Data Availability

• DFIRM Viewer currently available through the MSC website homepage

• Future enhancements will enable NFHL data downloads from the MSC catalog page

Current View

Updated Viewer with Report

Updated Viewer with LOMA

NFHL

• NFHL data will be available directly from the MSC Product Catalog

NFHL

• Customers will select area of interest by State

Google Earth

• NFHL viewable via Google Earth• Uses a KMZ file – interface between Google Earth

and WMS• Currently available on MIP under Tools and Links• Access will be via the MSC website in the future

(when NFHL data is on the MSC website)• Useful for making public aware of their risk to

flood hazards

Google Earth

User Resources

• MSC URL: http://msc.fema.gov

• MSC Customer Service Department: – E-mail: FEMA-MSCservice@dhs.gov– Telephone: 1-800-358-9616

Questions?

J. Christopher Eckhart, CFM christopher.eckhart@associates.dhs.gov

410-471-4014