Alguém conhece uma boa fonte para os polígonos de parcelas na West Virginia?

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<\/HEAD>Eu tenho todos os dados do PLSS para os estados vizinhos, mas o sistema de levantamento da WV é baseado no antigo metes and bounds. Eu tenho polígonos para Distritos Fiscais, mas preciso das subdivisões menores, que eu acho que são parcelas fiscais? Não precisa ser gratuito, mas quero em formato vetorial, nada dessas imagens .tif de mapas antigos escaneados, e estou tentando obter tudo em um ou vários arquivos grandes, ao invés de ir condado por condado. Alguém tem uma boa fonte para esses? Muito obrigado!!<\/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.