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 consider this latest GIS Online website just as the title suggests, ‘beta.’ It’s only a few weeks old and at worst is available now for you to see what technology we will be using to provide improved GIS services.
I believe there are many attributes of this new GIS Online that you may find useful right now. Please take a moment and read the article which is titled ‘Quick Start Guide’ where I briefly describe how you can accomplish various tasks such as searching for a property by previous owner and view both Pictometry and Google Street view after selecting a location on the map.
In the next couple weeks I plan on providing short video tutorials to better inform and instruct everyone about the functionality this website provides. (Sometimes videos are easier to consume and understand than reading text.) Until then, take note of the big ‘?’ (found in the upper right of the launched website) which provides very detailed, but generic documentation. Click HERE for a direct link to the generic documentation.
This current website represents one of many we have planned for the near future. It hopefully fulfills the requirements of the more advanced user. We really like the report driven portlandmaps.com and hope to provide a website similar to it using ArcGIS REST technology later this year or early next to serve the basic user with a very simple website having a wealth of information.