Scope and Content:  The Office of Geographic Information in Massachusetts (known also as the Massachusetts Geographic Information System (MassGIS) and renamed in 2014 as noted below) has been the designation for the unit of geographic information assigned to the collection, storage, and dissemination of geographic data. MassGIS manages, maintains, and provides access through web mapping services and data download to the state’s geographic information database. –MassGIS was developed by the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). Appropriations bill St 1985, c 140 (item 2050-0200) funded a feasibility study for a geographic information system for environmental data under the Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council division of EOEA. St 1987, c 199 (item 2050-0200) funded the implementation of the geographic information system. The Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council ceased to meet as a body after St 1995, c 38, s 2 (item 2000-0100), and its functions were transferred to the office of the Secretary of Environmental Affairs. St 1998, c 194, s 63 established within the EOEA an Office of Geographic and Environmental Information, the name later shortened as above. –In 2010, the Secretary of Administration and Finance convened a task force to determine the future of MassGIS. Due to its increased focus on non-environmental agencies, the recommendation was made to move MassGIS to the Administration and Finance secretariat’s Information Technology Division (ITD). St 2010, c 56, s 10D transferred the core functions of MassGIS from EOEA to the ITD. In 2014, the ITD was replaced by the Office of Information Technology (MassIT) as the state’s lead executive agency for technology and innovation, at which time the geographic unit was officially renamed Bureau of Geographic Information (St 2014, c 165, s 2/MGLA c 7D, s 5).\

Arrangement: 4 subseries

Notes: Accessioned as State orthophoto files

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