National Land Parcel Data A Vision for the Future (2007) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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This fragmentation of land information and control has been a problem for this country because it has allowed for a widely varying range of availability and quality of land parcel data across the nation. Some parts of the United States have been able to use this information about land to greatly improve the quality of life for their citizens, while others have not.
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, asserted the importance of parcel data within an integrated system of land information to support the wide range of decision making necessary for effective land management. The report acknowledged that land parcel data can only be developed and maintained at the local government level, but that the federal government must foster the integration of these local data sets through a set of consistent standards, funding programs, and coordination with each state.
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Finally, the committee made extensive use of published documents and reports on the current status of land parcel data in the United States, templates for cadastral standards, and examples of successful systems and case studies on the uses of cadastral data from various sources, such as the FGDC Subcommittee for Cadastral Data. 1.3 DEFINITIONS Although there are several possible definitions for land parcels, one of the simplest and most persistent is the one included in Multipurpose Land Information Systems: the Guidebook (Epstein and Moyer, 1993, p.
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The parcel polygon graphics used for the purposes of nationwide data will not be sufficiently accurate to support title conveyance, but should be sufficiently accurate to support real estate taxation purposes. Subsurface rights, such as mineral, oil, and gas or groundwater extraction rights, and fractionated surface interests such as solar easements and transferable development rights are an important component of the description of rights and interests in land.
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1-5) provided the following definition of a land information system: "Land information systems are ‘the data, products, services, the operating procedures, equipment, software, people -- the sum of all the elements that systematically make information about land available to users.' " In this report, the terms land parcel database or land parcel data set are used in the more general sense to refer to groupings of land parcel data for an area.
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However for simplicity the term local government or county is often used in this report to refer to all government agencies below the state level that produce parcel data.
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Chapter 4 describes the current status of parcel data in the United States, as well as in other countries for comparison. The challenges that must be overcome to develop complete national land parcel data are laid out in Chapter 5, and Chapter 6 provides a vision and model for what nationally integrated data could be.
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