Local Government GIS
Contact: Eric McRae, emcrae@uga.edu; 706.542.3442
Your county government can make the right GIS decisions according to its needs and resources with the help of the ITOS local government team's technical expertise and training.
Counties working with ITOS receive a complete GIS solution from data creation to employee training to no-obligation advice. With a strong emphasis on data quality and practical training, the local government team can create new data by building specialized coverages or enhancing existing GIS data.
Counties can better negotiate the challenges of implementing and managing a GIS project with ITOS's assistance. Drawing on extensive local government experience and backed by a staff of GIS and IT personnel, ITOS can also coordinate GIS activities with surrounding jurisdictions and state agencies.
Local government agencies benefit from GIS technology in the following areas:
- Parcel data: ITOS converts paper tax maps and AutoCAD drawings into GIS datasets. These are combined with tax assessor databases such as Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA). Counties can also save time and money by publishing their parcel data on the Web.
- Soil type data used in other applications such as tax assessment, site suitability analysis, and determining erosion potential
- Land cover data used for planning, change detection (land use, timber, economic growth, etc.) and property tax assessment
- Conservation use analysis
- Zoning: ITOS can create GIS zoning data from a GIS parcel dataset, account for split-zoned parcels, and create complete, high quality zoning datasets
- Addressing systems: ITOS can update and enhance county road datasets for many tasks such as emergency response and accurate assignment of new addresses.
- Utility infrastructure GIS using GPS: Fire hydrants, valves, meters, and other hardware cannot be seen on most aerial photographs. ITOS uses its GPS equipment to quickly and accurately locate utility infrastructure that will form an accurate foundation for the conversion of water, sewer, and gas line drawings. With a high-quality foundation, ITOS can digitize as-built drawings in such a way that underground features such as pipes are also accurately positioned with real-world coordinates.
- House sketches created from the tax assessor's database: If a county already has a parcel GIS layer and they have house/building sketches in the tax assessor's database, ITOS may be able to quickly and inexpensively convert that sketch data into powerful GIS data. The resulting data has many uses to planners and utility departments, in particular.
