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GIS Data Information

GIS Data Information

Berks County GIS Data is maintained by staff in Assessment, Emergency Services, IS/GIS, and Planning while some of the data is derived from information from many other agencies.  The County has chosen to distribute public GIS data sets via the Berks County Data Hub.

The County of Berks realizes that the use of an Open Data Hub is beneficial for daily County business and that it can be a central repository of information that can be used to promote transparent government and provide easy access to data and information that is beneficial to the prosperity of the County as a whole.  The use of an Open Data Hub is the foundation of an open government and is consistent with constituents’ right to public information. Please visit the Berks County Data Hub for all your GIS data needs.

Public GIS data sets are provided with Public GIS data sets are provided with these spatial reference parameters:

  • Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
  • Coordinate system: State Plane, Zone 3702
  • Horizontal Datum: North American Datum 1983
  • Vertical Datum: NAVD 1988Units: Feet

All County of Berks GIS data and its use is guided by these adopted County policies and terms of use:

GIS - General Data Agreement & Terms - for general use

GIS - Sharing Data Agreement & Terms - for various defined organizational use