NBII-NIN Governmental and Statistical Unit Server for the Northeast
This page contains links to the NBII NIN OGC compliant WMS and WFS services offering Governmental and Statistical boundaries from the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau. The geographic extent of these layers corresponds to the eight state region of the Northeast Information Node.
Layers Available via OGC Protocols
| URL | Description | Expected result |
| List of WFS services available from this server | WFS Providers list | HTML |
| Capabilities for Northeast boundaries as simple feature classes | WFS Capabilities | XML |
| Capabilities for Northeast boundaries rendered in a WMS | WMS Capabilities | XML |
| Capabilities for Northeast States using FGDC Governmental Units Schema | WFS Capabilities | XML |
| Capabilities for Northeast Counties using FGDC Governmental Units Schema | WFS Capabilities | XML |
| Capabilities for Northeast Census Tracts using FGDC Governmental Units Schema | WFS Capabilities | XML |
| Capabilitiesfor Northeast Block Groups using FGDC Governmental Units Schema | WFS Capabilities | XML |
| Northeast Features Portrayed | State features portrayed | GIF |
The table below provides a review of OGC compliant clients and links to download or obtain additional information on the client.
Review of OGC compliant clients
Client |
Free or Open Source | WMS |
WFS |
Link |
| Gaia 2.0.5 | X | X | X | http://www.thecarbonproject.com/ |
| Open Jump | X | X | http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage | |
| ArcGIS 9.x | X | http://www.esri.com | ||
| Intergraph GeoMedia | X | X | http://www.intergraph.com/geomedia/ | |
| uDig | X | X | X | http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home |
| Degree | X | X | X | http://www.latlon.de/ |
To access these layers, right click on the service you wish to add to your client and select the “Copy Link Location” option. Return to your map and paste the WMS or WFS link into the Add Service area.
Please note that the county, tract, and block group units have a server-side limit of 2,000 features per request. Requests that exceed this limit will only return a subset of features.
