Rochester, Minnesota
cityCity of Rochester — gateway for local data and maps.
Coverage: City publisher; not countywide coverage. City open-data GIS service directory; county GIS data also available through Olmsted.
- Publisher
- City of Rochester
- Platform
- Custom gateway
- Last checked
- 2026-11-07 (ET)
The staples
Always visible. Absence is scoped to the inspected publications; “not established” is not absence.
| Layer / official page | Format | Updated | Licence / use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parcels / ownershipParcels in county-hosted Addressing service explicitly used by the Minnesota city planning map; county product, not a duplicate city catalog. | |||
| ✓Parcels (official page, opens in new tab) | ArcGIS service layer | Not recorded | Publisher terms / disclaimer; check official page |
| Zoning / overlay districtsRochester_Zoning on the county service, officially linked by the Minnesota city planning map. City Shoreland District Overlay, city Heritage Preservation and county Rochester Airport Zoning are the found overlay families. Also DMC/subdistrict and special-service/TIF layers are operational district references, not automatically zoning. Full legal overlay completeness not established. | |||
| ✓Rochester_Zoning (official page, opens in new tab) | ArcGIS service layer | Not recorded | Publisher terms / disclaimer; check official page |
| ✓Shoreland District Overlay (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
| ✓Shoreland District Overlay (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
| ✓Political and School (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Publisher terms / disclaimer; check official page |
| ✓Rochester Airport Zoning (official page, opens in new tab) | ArcGIS service layer | Not recorded | Publisher terms / disclaimer; check official page |
| ✓Heritage Preservation (official page, opens in new tab) | ArcGIS service layer | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
| Address pointsAddress Points from county-hosted service explicitly linked into city map; not the NY directory or world geocoder results. | |||
| ✓Address Points (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Publisher terms / disclaimer; check official page |
| Building footprintsPublication not established — not a missing-data claim | Manufactured Homes/Building Units are address-related subsets, not citywide footprints. Olmsted separately publishes Building Footprints; do not present its catalog as a second Rochester hub. | ||
| Municipal / county boundaryCounty-maintained centerlines and city-limit boundaries displayed in the Rochester Minnesota city map; layer extent is not restricted to Rochester by this inventory. | |||
| ✓City Limits (official page, opens in new tab) | ArcGIS service layer | Not recorded | Publisher terms / disclaimer; check official page |
| Streets / centerlinesCounty-maintained centerlines and city-limit boundaries displayed in the Rochester Minnesota city map; layer extent is not restricted to Rochester by this inventory. | |||
| ✓Centerlines (official page, opens in new tab) | ArcGIS service layer | Not recorded | Publisher terms / disclaimer; check official page |
Also published by this city
Selected inventoried holdings, not an exhaustive catalog. Publisher pages remain authoritative.
Site and development
| Layer / official page | Format | Updated | Licence / use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future land useRochester P2S Future Land Use WCAG and Growth Management layers in city Land Use web map; plan guidance, not current zoning. | |||
| ✓Rochester P2S Future Land Use WCAG (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
| ✓Rochester P2S Growth Management WCAG (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
| Historic districtsHeritage Preservation polygon layer in Historic Preservation Overlay map. Metadata type domain explicitly includes District; STATUS distinguishes Historic Landmark, Inventory and Removed. Not every polygon is a currently designated district. | |||
| ✓Heritage Preservation (official page, opens in new tab) | ArcGIS service layer | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
| ✓CD Planning Web Map - Historic Preservation Overlay Accessibile (official page, opens in new tab) | Web Map | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
| Other inventoried holdingsPublished catalog entries; service aliases and vintages are not counts of unique datasets. | |||
| ✓General Development Plans View (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
Operations and access
| Layer / official page | Format | Updated | Licence / use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other inventoried holdingsPublished catalog entries; service aliases and vintages are not counts of unique datasets. | |||
| ✓Neighborhood Associations Public View (official page, opens in new tab) | Feature Service | Not recorded | Terms not specified; check publisher |
Inventory scope
City open-data GIS service directory; county GIS data also available through Olmsted.
IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHIC CORRECTION: supplied maps.cityofrochester.gov Open_Data directory is Rochester NEW YORK, not Minnesota. Homepage explicitly says New York; footprint service WKID2262 is New York West. All35 endpoints/18 service-name families are excluded from Minnesota counts.
Actual Minnesota city Planning & Zoning page links experience e6d503057fe148348b615c3cf36ef506. Its14 individually verified official-city items comprise the app, five thematic web maps, feature layers and geocoder/basemap references; this is a mapping gateway, NOT a confirmed general download catalog.
City map publishes shoreland, future land use/growth, GDP, heritage, neighborhood associations and DMC/TIF/special-service districts; it consumes county Addressing and Zoning services. County services remain county sources, not duplicate city portals.
City heritage type domain explicitly includes District; STATUS also includes Inventory and Removed. County fallback provides full footprints, trails and local flood fringe; no NY-derived Minnesota coverage is claimed.
Building permits: Minnesota records page explicitly links Citizen Access; not a verified official-host permit bulk item. No external Accela records downloaded.
FindGiS links to official pages. It does not host these local files. Blank update dates mean the source did not establish a dataset update date, not that the data are current.