Your town's parcel map and assessing records, online and in your control.
One service for Maine towns: a modern online GIS parcel map, a public assessing site, and yearly map upkeep drawn from the recorded deeds and plans. Built and reviewed by a Certified Maine Assessor.
A map and an assessing site that share the same records
Residents, realtors and town staff look up a property in one place and get the map, the values and the paperwork together.
Online parcel map
- Parcels with lot numbers, street names and dimensions
- Recent aerial photos and LiDAR bare-earth imagery
- Zoning, shoreland, flood zones, wetlands, conserved land, E911 addresses and more
- Search by owner, address or map and lot
- Assessing search on the map: highlight every homestead, exempt, tree growth, farmland, waterfront or commercial property, filter by lot size or recent sales, and see the count and total value
- Abutter lists for any parcel, at the distance you set
- Measure distance and area
- Drop a marker anywhere to open Google Street View
- Print tax map sheets to PDF
Public assessing records
- Property card, valuation card and tax bill copies, emailed on request
- Homestead, veteran, blind, farmland, open space, tree growth and renewable energy forms filed online, attached to the property and sent to your office
- Each tax bill broken out by school, town and county share
- Confidential details, such as veteran and blind exemptions, never shown publicly
See a working town map
Enter your email and we'll send you a link to a working town map.
A map for anyone planning to build
Click any lot and the map shows what the land can be used for, not only who owns it.
- Zoning, explained: the lot's district and which uses are allowed, allowed with approval, or not allowed, drawn from the town's own ordinance.
- Shoreland and setbacks: whether the lot is in the shoreland zone, measured on the map, and a sketch of the buildable area the zoning setbacks leave.
- Wetlands and flood zones: where they fall on the lot and how much of it they cover.
- Conserved land and habitat: the town's conserved lands and state habitat layers that can shape a project.
- The ground itself: LiDAR terrain shows slopes and drainage before anyone walks the site.
Builders, realtors, surveyors, buyers and your code office all get the same answers, faster, and your staff field fewer of the same questions.
Every lot's details are for reference. The code enforcement officer makes the final call.
Your staff can update the map, and nothing goes live without approval
Town staff sign in through a web browser. Edits wait in an approval queue until the person you choose signs off.
APlanning layers
Add trails and sidewalks, update zoning shading, and group parcels into a highlighted layer for a project or a hearing.
BProposed lot changes
See a proposed split or boundary change with the recorded survey drawn over the parcel, before it reaches the published map.
More than a map, for less than a map service
The basics match what towns expect from any online map. The rest is what PRISM adds.
| Feature | PRISM | Typical town map service |
|---|---|---|
| Online parcel map with aerial photos | Included | Included |
| Search by owner, address or map and lot | Included | Included |
| Abutter lists | Included | Included |
| Street View from the map | Included | Included |
| Measure distance and area | Included | Included |
| Zoning and other town map layers | Included | Included |
| Download your town's map data | Included | Included |
| LiDAR bare-earth imagery | Included | No |
| Assessing search on the map: exemptions, tree growth, lot size | Included | No |
| Sales shown on the map | Included | No |
| Click a lot to see what its zoning allows, from the town's ordinance | Included | No |
| Property cards and valuation cards, emailed on request | Included, the town's own cards | Paid add-on, and not the original cards |
| Tax bill copies, emailed on request | Included | No |
| Online exemption forms | Included | No |
| Each tax bill broken out by school, town and county | Included | No |
| Town staff edit map layers, with approval | Included | No |
| Town staff upload, create and edit their own map layers in the browser | Included | No |
| Proposed lot changes shown over the recorded survey | Included | No |
| Hands-on guide that walks you through each tool as you use it | Included | No |
Based on common features of public town map sites in Maine, 2026.
One yearly price, set by the size of your town
Choose your town's parcel count to see the yearly cost, then set it beside what your town spends on mapping and online property records today. PRISM is priced below most comparable services, and the assessing site is included.
| Parcels | Hosting | Mapping | Lot changes included | Total per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,000 | $2,500 | $2,000 | 10 | $4,500 |
| 1,000 to 2,500 | $3,000 | $3,000 | 20 | $6,000 |
| 2,500 to 5,000 | $3,250 | $4,000 | 40 | $7,250 |
| 5,000 to 10,000 | $4,250 | $5,250 | 75 | $9,500 |
| Over 10,000 | Quoted for your town | |||
Hosting includes one yearly refresh from your town's TRIO records after commitment. Your town provides the export by an agreed date each year.
What counts as a normal lot change
Splits, combinations, boundary line adjustments, new lots from recorded deeds or plans, ownership and label updates, and minor line corrections.
Additional mapping services
- Lot changes beyond your yearly allowance
- New map layers your town requests
- Custom or special-purpose maps
- Research of unclear deeds or boundaries
- Printed map sets
Free conversion
We move your existing digital map data and assessing records over at no charge with a three-year agreement. Towns with paper maps only, ask us about setup. See what we need from you.
Your data stays yours
Your town owns its map data and can export it at any time in standard GIS formats.
Hosting included with assessing
When PRISM Municipal is your town's assessor, the online map and assessing site are included in the assessing contract. Mapping services are priced separately.
What your town sends us to get started
- Your TRIO database export (the full real estate and personal property records)
- Property record cards, as PDFs
- Valuation reports, as PDFs
- This year's tax bills, as PDFs
- The current commitment book
- Current digital map files, including shapefiles
- Planning and code maps, such as zoning and shoreland
Not on TRIO? We can accommodate other assessing systems too.
Built lean, without cutting corners
No expensive licenses. PRISM's maps run on proven open-source mapping software, so there are no license fees to pass on to your town.
Built for the way assessing works. Our software reads the metes and bounds in each deed and survey plan and plots the lines directly onto the parcel map. A Certified Maine Assessor reviews every change before it is published.
Lean by design. A focused Maine practice with low overhead and no layers of management built into the bill.
Lower cost does not mean less care. Every map change is reviewed by a Certified Maine Assessor before it is published.
See your town on the map
Write to ask for a walkthrough, a quote for your town, or a time to visit your office.
noel@prismmunicipal.comPrices shown are yearly and current as of October 2026.