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Bruce Harris and Associates of Batavia was chosen to perform the
parcel mapping work. Engineers take aerial digital photos and draw
in property lines and significant features, such as roads, to create
the new maps. The project is slated to take another year to
complete. While meeting part of a new state requirement as a new
means of applying land assessment values, particularly farmland, the
GIS system can supply exponential uses to the county and the
communities therein. It can be used for health and safety,
marketing, economic development, land-use decision-making, and more.
Cost is its only limiting factor.
Last month the Logan County highway engineer, Bret Aukamp,
received the first drafts and submitted additional checkpoints to be
added for more accuracy in some areas. The first parcel maps are
back from the mapping engineers and have now gone to the assessor's
office. That office will make necessary changes, and then the maps
will go back to Harris.
GIS is designed to provide open public access or secured-use
access information as needed. The parcel mapping serves as the base
layer, and then the user chooses overlays of information as desired.
The county approved purchasing the server and software to
implement the system this month.
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GIS Arch Info
software purchase --- $8,000
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GIS Arch IMS, IRC
View Network software and hardware purchase -- not to exceed
$20,000
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 County departments wanting to add their information to the GIS
system can purchase user software for their computers at a cost of
$1,200.
The Logan County Health Department already has plans to do this.
Administrator Mark Hilliard said that they plan to use the new
technology that provides accurate distance measuring to locate wells
and septic systems, and they will have a lot of other uses for it.
The 911 system will also be tapping in with a number of uses,
including a new program that will display residences of people with
disabilities. It can be used to quickly see the locations of people
who may need specialized help in the event of an emergency. It will
have restricted access for the department's use.
The project has been funded by grants and fees assessed by the
circuit clerk's office. There will be a fee increase of $5 starting
in January. The fund is scheduled to be sufficient for current
development for the next two years but will need additional funding
to continue expanding after that.
[Jan
Youngquist]
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