Which Red Cross Headquarters is Closest to my House?

By Mary Cloutier and Dan Walters

A new Internet based Municipal Resources system has recently been developed by the Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS) and Northern Geomantics Inc. consultants with funds appropriated by Congress to promote Y2K readiness. This system was available to Emergency Operations Center staff and their county based colleagues during the rollover weekend, to assist them in quickly locating local resources (armories, Red Cross, fire and police stations, hospitals, schools, county emergency management agencies, etc.) by town.

This system includes all the towns from Abbot to York plus townships and plantations. It also has the potential to "front end" other state data which can be linked to maps and searched by citizens via the Internet. Users can also print maps from this site. We are excited by the Municipal Resources system’s potential to expand service to all Maine people in the future, and efforts are underway by the OGIS to add additional data.

If you have a few moments, we invite you to take a look at http://musashi.ogis.state.me.us. Click "open mapping", (it will open two windows),and send comments to Year 2000 Task Force Staff, Mary Cloutier (mary.cloutier@state.me.us). We see this system as a "work in progress", and Mary is actively soliciting improvement suggestions.