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How DEVNET and Sarpy County, NE are working together to make property valuation and taxation easier by fully integrating property tax, mass appraisal (CAMA), and geographic information systems (GIS). Presented at the biannual meeting of the Nebraska GIS/LIS Association in Kearney, NE, April 2013.
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Integration Points for Property Tax, CAMA, & GIS
Jason A. CromeVice President of Software Development, DEVNET, Inc.
2013 Nebraska GIS/LIS Biennial SymposiumApril 16, 2013
Project Overview
• Sarpy County enters contract with DEVNET to modernize Property Tax and CAMA software in Fall 2012
• Project aims to improve tax cycle efficiency through automation, integration, and improved workflow
Integration Goals• Make property tax data, CAMA data, and GIS
available to the user through a single application
• Reduce duplicate work where possible
• Visualize property tax and CAMA data in meaningful ways.
• Make it easy for non-technical users to produce complex maps in GIS
Areas of Integration• Property Tax
• CAMA
• Sketching
• GIS
• Imaging
• Pictometry
• E911
Integration Overview
Building the Interface
Options
• Use Esri APIs
• Use existing county GIS applications
• Do something else (!!!)
Use County Apps
• Faster time to production
• Browser-based; easy to embed
• County users already familiar with them
• Cooperative county GIS department makes this easy and attractive
Interface Options
• Pass parcels through URL
• Exchange parcel data through shared database table(s)
• Web Services
Pass Parcels through URL
• Advantages: Easy to implement
• Disadvantages: slow, breaks down for large result sets (unexpected truncation of URLs)
Web Services
• Advantages: well-accepted, well-documented, lots of good tools for creating/consuming
• Disadvantages: lots of crappy tools for creating/consuming, sometimes slow, sometimes quirky, often verbose (XML, anyone?)
XML Web Services
Shared Database Table
• Advantages: easy to implement, fast set-based operations, builds cooperation and trust between IT staff and vendor(s)
• Disadvantages: need cooperation and trust between IT staff and vendor(s)
Implementation
• Simple table containing a unique ID, session ID, and parcel number
• Tax/CAMA apps always fill table with session ID and parcel(s) we want to map
• Action-specific URL called with session ID
• GIS looks into table with session ID and generates desired map
Implementation (cont.)
• When we want map to drive tax/CAMA, call GIS with session ID and blank table
• After action performed in GIS, table filled with parcels and session ID
• Event triggered in tax/CAMA, reads table contents, responds appropriately
Workflow
Splits, Combines, etc.
• Parcels split/combined in GIS first
• Addressed in E911
• By the time it gets to us, can import site address, legal description, acreage, soil data
How?
• Have direct read access into county geodatabase
• County tells us where to find the data we care about
Desktop Integration Points
Viewing a Parcel
Viewing Ag Land
Viewing Pictometry
Sketching
Imaging
Search Results
Putting It All Together...
...on Multiple Monitors!
Other Desktop Integration Points
• Comparable Properties
• Ratio Studies
• Neighborhoods
• ....Anywhere we have a list of parcels
Other Desktop Integration Points (cont.)
Web Integration Points
Viewing a Parcel
Viewing Ag Land
Images
Appraisal/Sketches
Search Results
Demo!!!
Questions?
Thanks!For more information:
http://www.devnetinc.cominfo@devnetinc.com
Contact Jason at:crome@devnetinc.com
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