Documentation
Easy Search Maps
Basic map viewing capablity has been added to Easy Search. At the report click either the ‘Parcel Map’ or the ‘Zoning Map’ option. Within several seconds a static map image is displayed with the selected parcel highlighted. Click the ‘Parcel Map’ option to display property information on the selected parcel and adjacent parcels. [caption... »
Easy Road Search
We have been working hard in recent months attempting to provide the all the same features you are accustomed to, but in ways that enhance your information gathering experience. Our programmer recently completed an enhancement to the Easy Site - the Road Search. Sometimes people want to see attributes of a road (address range, ownership or maintenance provider, route number). ... »
Tutorial Videos
We have found that videos convey the use of our interactive websites more easily than reading. Below you will find a number of resources that should give you a better understanding of how specific tools work. The first video is custom to our sites while the rest are generic to all Essentials sites. Do you need someone to show you how... »
Pictometry is Here!
This week we have our training. A number of staff from all around York County are going to be involved. For POL users, here is the Pictometry OnLine (POL) Help Doc (50pgs) Ongoing training seminars are offered by Pictometry, stay tuned to this website to review the latest offerings: http://www.pictometry.com/cts/classes We have one of these recorded seminars available as a file to... »
What is Datalinking?
Datalinking is the fancy term that refers to related records. What are related records? Much of our GIS data is consumed in other software programs and linked to by some unique index number. For parcels you may use the taxmapid as a unique number to refer back to some geographically recognizable property boundary. Some may use the county road number... »
2009 Orthos Review & Web-Editing
We recently received a shipment from our 2009 orthophoto vendor by hard drive. This year we acquired imagery countywide, with some areas half foot and the rest 1 foot grid tiles. The challenge is to review the product and provide the vendor with any issues that we may find. Instead of just one person reviewing this year we are taking... »
Need Old Aerials/Orthos?
This week we added the "Imagery Viewer" which has every aerial/orthophoto that we know of for York County - at least every one we could get our hands on! The screen capture here shows the extremly long list of aerial/ortho layers as well as some DEM/Hillshade layers. (click on any image to make larger, choose 'x' on bottom right to close.) [caption... »
April/May 2009 Updates
Welcome new subscribers! Many of you are receiving this message by email, we are excited you have subscribed and are participating that way. Thanks to those of you who have been using our latest websites and providing us with much needed feedback. This is a product of your needs and requests (both recent and cumulative from years past). Please continue to email... »
Mac Users Rejoice!
We have heard quite a bit from our friends who use Macs in the past 4 years since our last website was released. There is a small (and growing) community of very vocal Mac users who really don't like to be excluded from websites that only provide compatibility to Windows Internet Explorer. With our new website we now are able... »
Pictometry imagery added to GIS Online (2004 website) reports
I have added two additional ‘reports’ today to GIS Online which allow everyone to review the Pictometry oblique images. These may be found below the existing Parcel, Zoning and other Reports after using the Identify tool for property details. Hopefully the information below will help you understand how to discover and use these new features, if not email or call. +++++++++++++ Under the... »
About This Website
This website is to be the 'jumping off' point for GIS web services planned in the future. You can sign up for an email list to be notified as new features are added and documentation is improved. This URL is also a forum where you may leave comments to help guide us to better serve your information needs. For now, please... »