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<p>Leigh,</p>
<p>Your message worked, its out to the whole list right now. <br>
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<p>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. ?</p>
<p>If that's the case, you typically need to deal with two
departments inside each of the Counties you are looking at:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>[County] Real Estate Tax Appraiser</b> (current data on
each property, sales records, etc) - they typically publish <b>table
data</b> <br>
</li>
<li><b>[County] GIS department </b>("boundary" lines of each
property. - they typically publish <b>map data</b> (Shape
files (.shp) that requires GIS software to make use of.)</li>
</ul>
<p>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.<br>
</p>
<p>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]. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>Hope this is at least a start. <br>
</p>
<p>Rick Labs<br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/1/2018 9:01 AM, Leigh Brooks
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CL&B Capital Management, LLC
Phone: 315-637-0915
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