Meeting Minutes
Parcels Task Force – New Jersey Geospatial Forum
January 13, 2005 3:00 PM
Burlington County Facilities at the Mt. Holly Court Complex
Conference Room B
In attendance:
Arnold Barnett
Brendan T. Weiner
Dawn Hunter
Donald E. Walby
Elena Boundina
J. Peter Borbas
Jeff McCall
Joel Falk
Lou Marchuk
Merrilee Torres
Ray Bunn
Richard Rehmann
William Thomas
So far, there has been limited response to the Parcel Inventory Survey. Remaining incomplete Counties were assigned to members of the Parcels Task Force to finalize a “first sweep” of County GIS contacts before possibly conducting a municipal level inquiry.
A Geodatabase design will be finalized to store and analyze results of the survey. A state ArcIMS site may be able to facilitate the updating/analysis of this survey in conjunction with existing data collected from previous parcel inventory attempts.
As new data is discovered through this survey, its publication on NJGIN should be advocated. For undocumented datasets, this will facilitate metadata creation per NJGIN requirements - metadata training and assistance is available from the State.
Once the results of the Parcel Inventory Survey are complete to a satisfactory level, the Parcels Task Force should perhaps look at building a business case for the State to, in some way, close the identified data gaps thereby facilitating a state-wide GIS parcel fabric.
After the Parcel Inventory Survey is completed, the Parcels Task Force is considering the development of a “Best Practices Manual” for parcel mapping. This Manual would serve as an interim guidance tool prior to NJ Taxation implementing a digital tax map standard that could be used to facilitate parcel data development.
A parcel inventory and “Best Management Practices” manual are important at this time because it is unlikely that the eventual creation of a digital tax map standard, however manifested, would yield a usable state-wide GIS parcel base in the near future.
A discussion took place on the work that has been accomplished to date by NJ Taxation and the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors (NJSPLS) toward the development of a digital tax map standard. MANY technical and programmatic issues involved in such an implementation, and the implications for subsequent GIS parcel data development were discussed. The Parcels Task Force will recommend that the NJGSF Executive Committee write a letter supporting this continuing effort.