Weymouth’s MapGeo Makeover: Unveiling New Possibilities

Just a short ferry or train ride from Downtown Boston to the nearby South Shore, you’ll find the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts  — which has very city-like population of over 57,000 residents. Weymouth is in fact a town of four Villages (North Weymouth, Weymouth Landing, East Weymouth, and South Weymouth). Instead of having one downtown, Weymouth has four distinct centers of business. In addition to these villages, three of the Boston Harbor islands are in Weymouth (Grape Island, Slate Island, and Sheep Island).

Weymouth’s Town Hall was originally built as a replica of the Old State House in Boston 

Weymouth is the birthplace and childhood home of Abigail Adams, closest advisor and wife to the 2nd U.S. President John Adams, and mother to the 6th President John Quincy Adams. Weymouth is the second-oldest settlement in Massachusetts — second only to Plymouth. Some other notable connections to Weymouth include that of Booker T. Washington, who owned a summer home on Main Street, and Maria Weston Chapman — an American abolitionist and lifelong Weymouth resident.

Visit the Weymouth, MA MapGeo Site

How Weymouth is Putting MapGeo to Work

Weymouth recently made a seamless transition upgrading their parcel viewer to MapGeo. The implementation, supported by the MapGeo Support team, stayed on schedule and within budget.

MapGeo has generated positive user feedback and renewed engagement in GIS within the town, and Weymouth expects MapGeo will fit in well with the town’s future needs.

Town GIS Administrator, Garrett Walsh had some positive comments on MapGeo:

“Like other communities who have invested time and resources in legacy systems, there was some hesitation here in Weymouth to move away from our 20 year old parcel viewer.  We needed an affordable solution that could simultaneously leverage new technologies while preserving some of the custom functionality from our old viewer that our users depended on for their daily tasks.  The decision was made to go with Sanborn/AppGeo’s MapGeo solution. After an initial meeting with the MapGeo implementation team, we set an ambitious timeline that would allow for a seamless transition before our existing licensing for our legacy system expired.

The MapGeo onboarding presentation and implementation survey created the framework, and from there it was a simple matter of uploading the required data. The implementation team was clearly very capable. They were very responsive to my requests throughout the process and were able to include the custom functionality we wanted.  Their familiarity with local CAMA vendors and regional GIS data made for a very quick turnaround.  

The initial feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and created a renewed engagement in ‘all things GIS’.  I expect we will have some fresh ideas for how to grow our MapGeo site as we continue to use it and I have no doubt the MapGeo team will be able to assist us.” 

Weymouth’s Land/Zoning Regulations and Zoning Permitted Uses website are linked within the property panel of MapGeo for quick access.