2017 Spring Newsletter

COMMITTEE SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE—IT/GIS

Building Sketch from Property Appraiser’s Website

County GIS

Google Maps

After the desktop review program was put into regular use, another hurdle presented itself. We be- gan receiving emails from users stating they had accidently added flags for a field visit recheck when they meant to complete the desktop review of the parcel – or vice versa. Notes were entered incor- rectly, wrong dates were used, and we quickly learned that users will find ways to break the pro- gram. It’s very counterproductive to spend time finding and correcting these errors. A tax roll is on- ly as good as the data within. Solution: Data entry safe guards were designed at every data point to force awareness of the action.

Data Safeguards

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Spring 2017 Newsletter of the FCIAAO