View Orthophoto Data

Pierce County orthophotography can be viewed in PublicGIS by clicking on the Aerial button in the top right corner of the interface. The slider bar can be used to create a transparency allowing you to view a combination of base maps.

Purchase Orthophoto Data 

Pierce County LICENSES orthophotography and impervious surface data from 3rd party vendors. There is ortho imagery flown on different years with different levels of accuracy. The following is a summary of vendors who have imagery for the County:

Sanborn Map Company, Inc.

Flight dates: 2014

Extents: near countywide coverage

Projection: NAD 83 (1991)Washington State Plane South Zone

Contact: Jason Caldwell

The Sanborn Map Company, Inc.

1935 Jamboree Drive, Suite #100

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Phone: 719-264-5547

Toll Free: 1-877-368-9702

Email: jcaldwell@sanborn.com

Web Site: http://sanborn.com/

Aeroquest Mapcon Inc. Mapping Products

Flight dates: 2005, 2008, and 2011

Extents: near countywide coverage

2011: 1.0 ft. pixel resolution, color imagery

2005 and 2008: 0.5 ft pixel resolution, color imagery

File format: Uncompressed TIFF

Projection: NAD 83 (1991)Washington State Plane South Zone

Contact: Bill Dawson, Regional GIS Manager

Aeroquest Mapcon Inc.

Phone: 425-894-9146

Email: bdawson@aeroquestmapcon.com

Web Site: http://aeroquestmapcon.com/

Aerials Express Product

Flight dates: September - October 2007, Next Flight Date: 2009

Extents: Canadian border through Chehalis in the south, Appx. 7,000 square miles

1-foot pixel resolution, color imagery

File formats: ECW or SID Compression, or Uncompressed TIFF

Projections available: UTM, WA State Plane North & South - NAD83

Available for full region, partial regions or individual extracts

Similar imagery available for every major metropolitan area in the continental US

Also available GIS layers with the imagery:

10ft USGS Contours

FEMA flood maps

TeleAtlas road, place, zip code, etc. layers

Parcel files for major counties

Software:

ECEY View GIS software

Contact:

John Nagy

Aerials Express - Washington

2212 Queen Anne Ave. N #414

Seattle, WA 98108

206-284-3666

Email:jnagy@aerials-express.com

Web Site: www.aerials-gis.com