The Long Road to Mapping Parcel Data Statewide

Carol O. Rogers, IBRC at IU Jim Sparks, State GIS Officer

A brief history of county GIS access Jim Sparks, State GIS Officer

Did you

know alm

ost

all counties

now share

their GIS

files?

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A brief history of parcel data Carol Rogers, IBRC at Indiana University and

director of Information for Indiana initiative

Wow

, now I can

see how im

portant

property is to

businesses and

population!

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Collecting Local DataIBRC has developed and

deployed multiple web-based collection tools as part of the Information for Indiana Initiative:

Property Parcel Data Sales Disclosure forms can

be input online (or uploaded if county is using a vendor)

Government Gateway for Government Units allows for submission of budgets for tax certification and annual reports of expenditures

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Data

Just a Few of the Uses Analysis of local

government taxing and spending

Aid in uniform property assessments

Homestead validation Transparency Cross boundary

comparisons

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Missing Piece has been “The maps” Parcel data is inherently spatial Inability to “see” the intersection of taxing

districts Confusion

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Parcel Shapefiles Make All the Difference Suddenly, we can see the intersections of

property and people’s lives

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Proximity of work and housing

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Home sales in context of all parcels

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Why All Counties Provides regional

context Allows for use of

metro area data Can place

information within the context of what’s in place

Economic development

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Let’s talk about this …

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