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About GIS Online Mapping and Property Search
York County Government, South Carolina, announces the availability of their GIS Online Real Estate search website that provides access to property ownership, address or street lookup, and subdivision searches. This interactive mapping website is a portal and resource for the government and citizens to research many types of information including (but not limited to) who owns a property, the assessed value of the property, the drawn property boundaries, a street address, aerial imagery for the property covering nearly 20 years, soil types, zoning, utility locations, future road projects, traffic count data, floodplain locations, school locations, topography, and even data from all municipalities within York County. The information described above is conveniently organized by report type. The search capabilities allow for parcels of land to be located and a user of the website to obtain a property report, zoning report, environmental report, or community report. For example, to determine (based upon location of a parcel of property or address) the county council person represents you, which school district, census tract, precinct and voting location, or which fire district your property is located inside of, choose the Community Report.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the map and information provided by this GIS Online website may be worth a great deal more to those who use it. GIS is a mapping technology that consists of people, hardware, and software. The technology is used by public and private sector alike to present large amounts of information previously only available in tabular form and makes the information understandable and easily accessible in a graphical or map format.
County staff have utilized GIS technology for nearly 4 years since 2000 when county management recognized the invaluable savings in staff and citizen time that could be realized. Since initial deployment of the website in 2003 the hallways of county government buildings and the roadways have become less traveled since information once only available by sorting through papers in filing cabinets can now be found using a computer with internet access at homes and businesses.
Additionally, since 2000, county staff have been able to form better working, data sharing and exchange relationships with the cities of York, Clover, Tega Cay, and Rock Hill. Partnerships between York County and these municipalities allow land parcel updates, annexations, aerial photo projects, and other technology and data sharing efforts to take place. These efforts are saving tax dollars by minimizing duplications and inconsistencies, and to ensure seamless co-operations.
For the more advanced user, geographic data may be downloaded using the GIS Online Website and imported into a desktop software package for custom map making. Surveyors, realtors, engineers, and land developers appreciate this capability as it saves them invaluable time and resources which in turn translates to saving themselves and their customers dollars.
The website can be used by anyone with an internet connection, Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater and with knowledge of how to navigate the internet with a browser. GIS Online can be used by anyone.
Specific users include: surveyors, realtors, bankers, mortgage brokers, lawyers, and quite often by parents needing directions to an address in a brand new subdivision for her daughter to attend a birthday party at her friend's house.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) staff provide many services to county departments. Map making and information lookup time has been reduced, data sharing, cooperation between departments and staff has increased, and the production and storage of information has become much more efficient and useful to both government and the citizens served.
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