NJ Geographic Information Network

News Archives

2023

February

Looking for the latest congressional and legislative district boundaries?
Congressional Districts with Office Holder Information, CURRENT
Legislative District Boundaries, CURRENT (with office holder information)

Find these datasets and more on the NJGIN Additional Data Products page.

2022

December

Updated parcels and MOD-IV data available for New Jersey
The Statewide Parcel and MOD-IV Composite have been updated with data from the 2021 tax year. Recent data include Camden, Gloucester, Morris, Ocean, Salem, and Warren Counties, along with new tax Block and Lot numbers for Edison Township in Middlesex County.
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August

Updated administrative boundaries for NJ
The NJ Office of GIS plans to publish updated county and municipality boundaries and point data on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. Included in the update are a municipality merger and changes to the attribute table field structure for all layers. Users who need details about these changes can find them on the NJGIN Boundaries page.

July

NEW: Property Explorer App
Introducing the new Property Explorer app in beta! Perform parcel searches across NJ by address, county, municipality, block and lot. View parcels with imagery, create a printable report, and download data as a CSV.

Property Explorer

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June

New NJOGIS road centerlines hosted feature service
Hosted feature service of the statewide road centerlines in the Next Generation 911 format is now available on ArcGIS Online.
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NEW! Monthly updates from NJOGIS
Beginning June 2022, NJOGIS will update the road centerlines dataset, address points dataset, and statewide geocoding service monthly. View details in the Enterprise Data Updates Report.

May

Maintenance scheduled for NJOGIS imagery services
Due to scheduled maintenance, NJOGIS imagery services may be unavailable on Thursday, May 19, 2022 from noon to 1pm. We apologize for any inconvenience.

April

NJOGIS map services to be retired on Friday, April 29
The NJ Office of GIS will be retiring map services at maps.nj.gov in favor of hosted (cloud) layers capable of high demand and layers published by authoritative GIS data stewards. These map services will be taken down at or around Friday, April 29, 2022.
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March

POSTPONED: Upcoming NJ administrative boundary changes
The updated county and municipality boundary and point data changes that were scheduled to be published to production on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 are postponed indefinitely. Changes will continue to be available in the test environment for viewing and download.
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NJOGIS announces new GIO
The NJ Office of GIS welcomes Brian Embley as the new State Geographic Information Officer. He replaces Andy Rowan who held that title for 17 years. Brian also assumes the leadership position at the Office of GIS and is the new GIO member on the NJ Geospatial Forum Executive Committee. He will also represent NJ, as the State GIO, at the National States Geographic Information Council. We wish Brian great success in his new roles!
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February

2020 statewide orthoimagery available as cached map service
2020 natural color orthoimagery is available as a cached map service through ArcGIS REST and WMTS.
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2021

December

Maintenance scheduled for NJOGIS map services & applications
Due to scheduled maintenance, NJOGIS map services & applications may be unavailable on Friday, December 17, 2021 from noon to 2pm. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Redaction of owner names from parcels and tax list
The redaction of owner names from parcels and the tax list database is in compliance with the newly enacted Daniel’s Law.
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Parcels data updates available for download
Parcels data were updated for Bergen, Passaic, Sussex and Union Counties; Montclair Township in Essex County; and Highland Park Borough (block and lot re-numbering) in Middlesex County. All updates were integrated into the Statewide Composite of Parcels.
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MOD-IV tax list database updates available for download
The 2021 MOD-IV database (for tax year 2020) has been integrated into all parcels datasets and the Statewide Property Tax List.
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Maintenance scheduled for NJDOT GDMS Viewer
Due to scheduled maintenance, the NJDOT Geotechnical Data Management System (GDMS) Viewer may be unavailable on Friday, December 10, 2021 at 4pm to Monday, December 13, 2021 at 8:30am. We apologize for any inconvenience.

November

Parcels basemap service update
Several counties data in the parcels basemap service were updated.
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August

Taking Care of Business Site Evaluator to be retired
The Taking Care of Business Site Evaluator web app is due to be retired on Tuesday, August 31st. Many of the datasets used in Site Evaluator will continue to be available for download from NJGIN Open Data.

July

Address points in Next Generation 911 format now available for download and streaming
Address points were reformatted to comply with the Next Generation 911 GIS Data Standard published by the National Emergency Number Association.
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Legacy LiDAR collections available for download
Legacy LiDAR data collections and derived elevation products for NJ are now available for download
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2020 statewide orthoimagery collection now available
2020 natural color and color infrared orthoimagery is available through NJGIN download and streaming services.
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June

New Geocoding Service now available
This new service, NJ_Geocode, leverages enhanced capabilities available in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Server. The previous generation geocoding service, Addr_NJ_Cascade, will continue to be available until December 2021.
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Road centerlines in Next Generation 911 format now available for download and streaming
Road centerlines were reformatted to comply with the Next Generation 911 GIS Data Standard published by the National Emergency Number Association.
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Parcels and MOD-IV updates available for download
Parcels were updated for Cumberland, Essex, Monmouth and Sussex Counties, and integrated into an update of the Statewide Composite of Parcels. MOD-IV data for tax year 2019 have been integrated into all parcels datasets and the Statewide Property Tax List.
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May

Quality Level 2 (QL2) LiDAR collections available for download
Quality Level 2 (QL2) LiDAR data collections and derived elevation products for all regions of NJ are now available for download.
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April

2015 Imagery in MrSID MG3 format available for download by tile
AutoCAD Users! 2015 imagery in MrSID MG3 (3 band) format is now available for download by tile from the Imagery Warehouse.
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Maintenance scheduled for NJOGIS map services & applications
Due to scheduled maintenance, NJOGIS map services & applications may be unavailable on Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 at 5PM for approximately 5 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience.

March

2015 imagery in MrSID MG3 format available for bulk download
AutoCAD Users! 2015 imagery in MrSID MG3 (3 band) format is now available for bulk download.
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Maintenance scheduled for NJOGIS map services & applications
Due to scheduled maintenance, NJOGIS map services & applications may be unavailable on Monday, March 15th, 2021, at 12PM, for approximately 5 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience.

February

Maintenance scheduled for NJGIN website, and NJOGIS map services & applications
Due to scheduled maintenance, the NJGIN website and NJOGIS map services & applications will be unavailable on Thursday,  Feb. 11th from 5:30am to 7:30am. We apologize for any inconvenience.

January

New NJOGIS parcels/MOD-IV hosted feature service
Hosted feature service of the statewide composite of parcels with MOD-IV attributes is now available on ArcGIS Online.
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New NJOGIS parcels cached raster tile layer
Cached raster tile layer of the statewide composite of parcels with block and lot labels is now available on ArcGIS Online.
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New imagery download capabilities available
Interactively download individual imagery tiles using the updated Imagery Warehouse web app or bulk download entire imagery collections using the AWS Command Line Interface

Imagery Warehouse

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New NJOGIS WMS image services available
WMS services for 2019 USDA NAIP natural color imagery and 1980s USGS NHAP color infrared imagery were added to the NJOGIS image services catalog.
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