shrug-l: How do I send a message to SHRUG group?

[Rick Labs]

Leigh,

Your message worked, its out to the whole list right now.

By "parcel data" I assume you mean real property data, organized by who 
owns it, the map boundaries of each parcel, real estate appraisal data 
used for tax purposes, etc. ?

If that's the case, you typically need to deal with two departments 
inside each of the Counties you are looking at:

  * *[County] Real Estate Tax Appraiser* (current data on each property,
    sales records, etc) - they typically publish *table data*
  * *[County] GIS department *("boundary" lines of each property.  -
    they typically publish *map data* (Shape files (.shp) that requires
    GIS software to make use of.)

Some states will also aggregate all of the county info into a state 
level database covering all parcels statewide. Typically you will be 
better off (in terms of completeness of data and timeliness working with 
each county). Also, some counties "group up" with adjacent counties and 
run a single GIS group covering all. If its unclear a call to the Real 
Estate Tax Appraiser asking "where can I get shape files of tax parcels 
for xyz county" will clear it up.

Some counties charge fees for access to parcel data, require signed 
licenses etc, hopefully the counties you are interested are more up to 
date and progressive then that. [It's a policy I think is crazy, 
especially when most areas want to promote vs. inhibit economic 
development and intelligent land use, and want to favor (not punish) 
small vs. large].

Be sure to look at all "readme.txt" and other such notes included any 
files you get, look at the documentation for record layouts for 
important notes, etc.

If you can be a bit more specific on what decisions you are typically 
trying to make off the data, and include a brief list of software tools 
you are using/have available to you for this project (e.g. excel, qgis, 
arcgis, openrefine, python, etc.) there are a great number of people on 
this list with specialized skills that might be really helpful on 
specifics.

Hope this is at least a start.

Rick Labs

PS - if you are looking for demographic type information at a highly 
granular level (block or block group level) you can get shape files and 
table data from the Census department (American Fact Finder). None of 
that will go right down to the tax parcel level but it can get fairly 
tight in. You can "marry it up" with parcel data with some fairly simple 
mapping/database procedures.


On 8/1/2018 9:01 AM, Leigh Brooks wrote:
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> How can I send an inquiry about a data source to the SHRUG list? I am 
> looking for parcel data for some southwest Georgia counties.
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> Thank you,
>
> Leighr
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> Leigh Brooks
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