Weet iemand een goede bron voor de parcel polygons in West Virginia?

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<\/HEAD>Ik heb alle PLSS-gegevens voor de omliggende staten, maar het survey-systeem van WV is gebaseerd op de oude metes and bounds. Ik heb polygonen voor Tax Districts, maar ik heb de volgende kleinere onderverdelingen nodig, waarvan ik denk dat het tax parcels zijn? Het hoeft niet gratis te zijn, maar ik wil het in een vectorformaat, geen van die .tif-afbeeldingen van oude gescande kaarten, en ik probeer alles in één of meerdere grote bestanden te krijgen, in plaats van per county. Heeft iemand een goede bron voor deze? Duizendmaal dank!!<\/P><\/BODY><\/HTML>

Zeke · Answer

I used to have this data years ago in a previous job, but can't recall where I got it. Maybe we bought it. Anyway, what I was told is that WV used to have legal descriptions based on the old colonial days, e.g. '300 feet northwest of the big oak tree, then to the southern bend in Yancy Creek', or some such. This wasn't very accurate, and trees fall, streams move, etc. So at some point WV said screw it, measured all their parcels and said 'This is it'. I've been told by surveyors that other new England area states have/had the same problem.

SeanO_Brien · Answer

I can't say I'm familiar with West Virginia GIS Data, but from my experience, there isn't usually an all encompassing parcel dataset available. Counties are usually responsible for their own parcel data, and that's the source you'll usually need to go to. Even a state like Indiana, which has very robust and public GIS dataset isn't 100% inclusive (yet). Some counties don't want to give it up, and some counties are so small in population that they don't even have digital parcel data. There are some exceptions for a region having parcel data, such as the Minneapolis-Saint Paul region which has parcel data for the the 7 county metro area.

I hope someone here can point you in a better direction, but it unfortunately may come down to going county-by-county to get the data you want.