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 to reference county maintained roads. Within our new website we are able to connect our GIS features with data stored in databases outside our GIS. A few examples of externally related data permits, road work orders, the road inventory, land parcel history, and the ability to link physical address within a property to the parcel.
(note that you can click on any image below to make it larger and more readable, then choose the ‘x’ in the lower right corner to return to this article)
We recently added datalinking for roads to include the County road inventory and work orders.
Roadway Datalink: County Road Inventory
Roadway Datalink: County Road Work Order
We also have datalinking enabled for parcels to include buildings with taxmapid’s, but with no land, situs addresses, parcel history and building permits.
Property Datalink: Building with No Land
Property Datalink: Situs Addresses
Property Datalink: Parcel History
Property Datalink: Building Permits
How do you access datalinking??
Datalinking is available after you perform some kind of search. You can utilize our aspatial attribute search tools (see graphic below, “Search By” Road name is active) or make a layer selectable and use the selection toolbar (see graphic below, “Selection” toolbar is active allowing you to select “Parcels” by point, line, polygon, etc – note that in the layers list Parcels is active, the “i” has been highlighted). The datalinking examples above (screenshots) are for layers Roadway and Parcels, so once you make some sort of inquiry (spatial/geographic or aspatial by attribute) on one of those layers, then choose the Summary Report, you will observe tabs for any Datalinking we have established.
Datalink: Spatial (Geographic Query Using Selection Tools) or Aspatial (Attribute Query) Search Methods